Skills A significant skill that the course aims to develop is the ability to use accounting information in the decision-making process. Comprehensive problems and cases are assigned and discussed whereby students gain experience in interpreting information and deciding what is needed to make informed choices. Students will develop their computer skills through the use of spreadsheets to produce much of the homework and graded assignments.
Students are also assigned problems that make use of Internet resources.
Students also learn written communication skills as part of assigned work where they must evaluate specific situations and write memos addressing these situations. Also, I assign a project where students are required to build a specific product from materials given to them and also answer questions from a case revolving around the product. This project, along with selected readings, are done to help students think off the paper, and help them rediscover their latent creativity skills.