As America's leading professional CPA organization, with more than 350,000 members in business, industry, government, public practice, and education, the AICPA is committed to providing you with information and material that alerts students to career opportunities in accounting and as a CPA.

The lesson plans in this Education Handbook are intended to show students that accounting goes beyond "debits and credits" and that CPAs are engaged in all aspects of business, not just auditing and taxation.

Each lesson plan is based on education learning standards set forth by the National Business Education Association (NBEA) and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). Each lesson plan also has skill-based components called Performance Measures and Standards—the skills that students should develop prior to graduating high school.

Using the Takin' Care of Business Education Handbook

Lesson 1, Financial Statement Analysis, "Reading Between the Bottom Lines"

Lesson 2, Budgeting & Forecasting, "Forecasting Your Future"

Lesson 3, Break-Even Analysis, "Proving the Price is Right"

Lesson 4, Measuring Productivity, "From Air to Market"

Lesson 5, Cost-Benefit, "Calculated Choices"

Lesson 6, Market Analysis, "What's New?"

Lesson 7, Electronic Commerce, "A Matter of Trust"

Lesson 8, Writing a Business Plan," Entrepreneurial Starts Here"

Lesson 9, Financial Planning, "Tax Laws Can Make You Rich"

Lesson 10, Time Value of Money, "Timing is Everything"

Lesson 11, The Purpose of Taxation, "Tax and the Facts"

Lesson 12, CPA Proessional Services, "A Day in the Life"

Lesson 13, Forensic Accounting, "Sam Shade, FBI & CPA"

Lesson 14, Ethics, "Do the Right Thing"

Lesson 15, The Language of Business, "Certified for Success"