1. Accounting software on every desktop Carol Yacht, Textbook Author www.mhhe.com/yacht www.mhhe.com/yacht Susan Crosson, Professor of Accounting Santa Fe Community College http://inst.sfcc.edu/~scrosson/

2. Today’s Agenda Curriculum implications of Microsoft Office Accounting—the new application included with MS Office 2007. Popular accounting software and suggestions for integrating software into accounting courses. What accounting software programs should I teach? How do I use accounting software in more than one course? How does hands-on practice reinforce accounting? Creating iPod content.

3. Accounting Software Basic Business Processes: …buy, sell, build, track Acquisition/Payment Sale/Collection Conversion Human Resource Financing

4. Popular accounting software

5. Software Used by Small, Medium, and Large Businesses http://www.asaresearch.com/articles/customers.htm

6. Small Business Accounting Software: Up to 20 Employees * MOA Estimate: There are 400 million Microsoft Office users worldwide. If 1% use Office Accounting, there will be 4 million users. http://www.aicpa.org/pubs/jofa/mar2006/collins.htmhttp://www.aicpa.org/pubs/jofa/mar2006/collins.htm

7. What software does your course emphasize?* *Crosson, Segovia and Yacht: Survey of AIS-Educators and Microsoft Convergence Attendees; reported March 10, 2007 at MS Convergence, San Diego

8. Accounting = Information Architects Why add Accounting Software to your courses? Business/Financial Literacy Accounting Literacy Because it is how accounting is actually done….

9. Publisher Designed GL, Peachtree; QuickBooks; Office Accounting 2007 Peachtree Dynamics-GP Financial/ Principles I Managerial/ Principles II IntermediateCost Excel Access Computer Accounting AISTax Excel Dynamics-GP Tax Software Accounting Course Sequence Audit ACL

10. Adding Software to Accounting Courses Doing Focus –Principles of Accounting, Tax, Audit, Government –Focus on Data entry and Bookkeeping –Practice sets to learn accounting processes Using Focus –Separate Computer literacy & AIS Courses teach the basics –Focus on computer-based stand-alone programs –Practice analyzing sample company data or data sets from Financial/Managerial/Tax/Auditor perspective Business Process Focus –Technology integrated across curricula & desktop –Focus on analyzing Information accessible from anywhere –Practice queries and searches of databases –Explore Internal/External Controls and Risks of Systems

11. Software2006-7 Educational CostRetail Cost Peachtree by Sage FREE to schools www.peachtree.com/training/educatio nal_partnerships.cfm $69.99 - $699.99 QuickBooks by Intuit Educational pricing: $99.95 - $599.95 Or 30 day FREE Online Edition www.intuitadvisor.com/education $99.95 to $3,000.00+ Online: $19.95-39.95/mo. Office Accounting 2007 by Microsoft Two versions: Express or Professional Office Accounting Express 2007: http://www.ideawins.com/home.html Office Accounting Professional 2007: http://us1.trymicrosoftoffice.com/product.aspx?fam ily=officeaccounting&culture=en-US 120-day trial version included with textbook Express FREE download or part of Office Small Business, Professional, or Ultimate Suites Professional: $149 new or $99 upgrade Dynamics-GP by Microsoft Academic Alliance FREE to schools www.microsoft.com/education/acade mic_alliance.mspx www.microsoft.com/education/acade mic_alliance.mspx $15,000.00+ Peachtree; QuickBooks; Office Accounting 2007; Dynamics-GP (Great Plains)

12. 5% ___________ Lecture 10%___________Reading 20%___________Audio-Visual 30%___________Demonstration 50%_ __________Group Discussion 75%_____________Practice by Doing 90%: Teach Others - Immediate Use Retention Rates Learning Pyramid *National Training Labs, Institute for Applied Behavioral Science; Bethel, Maine Practice makes perfect*

13. Carol Yacht’s General Ledger

14. CYGL: General Journal & Balance Sheet www.mhhe.com/cyglandpeachtree

15. Peachtree Sales Navigation Aid Peachtree 2007

16. QuickBooks Pro 2006 Home Page

17. QuickBooks Online Edition Home Page

18. Office Accounting 2007

20. http://us20.trymicrosoftoffice.com/product.aspx?sku=3082925&section_id=211&culture=en-US

21. Comparison: Office Accounting Pro & Accounting Express

23. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/accountingexpress/FX102097791033.aspx?mode=print

24. Business Education Forum April 2007 issue Using Accounting Software in the Classroom: What are the Options?* −QuickBooks −Microsoft Office Accounting −Peachtree *Article by Steven J. Carlson, Prof. of Accounting, University of North Dakota and Ryan Rauschenberger, Staff Associate, PricewaterhouseCoopers

25. Office Accounting 2007

27. Dynamics-GP 8.0

28. Because Accounting software is on every business desktop, which will you use?

29. Add Meaningful Technology Tools iPods & podcasting Tablet PC & digital ink Clickers (personal response systems) Cell phones, Cameras, ???

30. iPods….. Consider the possibilities Record and playback classes Chapter overviews—highlight favorite pages or learning objectives End-of-chapter coaching of review problem to model problem solving process Explanations of textbook visuals, i.e., exhibits, figures Podcasts-audio or video broadcasts available on the Internet –I hear, therefore I learn

31. Podcasting with only a Telephone… GCast is a free service that lets you record a podcast by calling a toll-free telephone number and then speaking using voicemail-style recording tools. Also offers free hosting and an embeddable player that can be dropped onto any page. The player describes your audio content as well as a play/pause button so all can listen without leaving the page. http://www.gcast.com For more see “GCast: Super-Easy Podcasting,” Monkey Bites, February 21, 2006 http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/

33. Clickers

34. Teaching with Technology No Turnkey Solutions Expresses You Continuously Challenges Research Opportunities Delights Students! Get more out of your teaching: By getting teaching/learning out of the classroom, By remembering to begin with the end in mind, By utilizing students’ modalities, questions, and development stages, By keeping the best and rethinking the rest, By inspiring students like your favorite professor inspired you.

35. McGraw-Hill Computer Accounting textbooks – www.mhhe.com/yachtwww.mhhe.com/yacht Computer Accounting with Peachtree 2007, Release 14, 11e (includes software CD) 0073365912 www.mhhe.com/yacht2007 Computer Accounting Essentials using QuickBooks Online Edition, 3e (30 days free) 0073131121 www.mhhe.com/yachtqbessentials3e Computer Accounting with Microsoft Office Accounting 2007 (includes software CD) 007333796X www.mhhe.com/yachtmoa Computer Accounting with Great Plains 8.0 (includes software CD) 0073273260 www.mhhe.com/yachtgreatplains Computer Accounting Essentials using Great Plains 8.0 (includes software CD) 0073273279 www.mhhe.com/greatplainsessentials Excel Accounting (student data CD) 0072987812 www.mhhe.com/yachtexcel Supplement: Student Guide to QuickBooks Pro 2006 (data CD) – includes end-of-chapter transactions from College Accounting, 11e. 0073312908 http://catalogs.mhhe.com/mhhe/viewProductDetails.do?i sbn=0073312908 GL supplement: Carol Yacht’s General Ledger and Peachtree CD-ROMs Various ISBNs www.mhhe.com/cyglandpeachtree

36. Yacht & Crosson, the names to know for Computer Accounting learning. Click on book to go to Online Learning Center.