This week, in your accounting class.
Free current-events articles, teaching cases, and interactive tools that three accounting professors actually pull into their own courses every semester. Take what you like.
Corporate America’s Profits Are Booming—and Signal More Good Times Ahead - WSJ
Corporate profit growth year-over-year illustrates horizontal analysis—comparing earnings across periods to spot trends. This economy-wide surge reveals what strong financial performance looks like when you strip away single-quarter noise.
Teach the news
Russian Citizen Extradited to U.S. in Sprawling Bank Fraud Scheme - The New York Times
A Russian national's extradition for a sprawling bank fraud scheme illustrates why segregation of duties, authorization controls, and transaction monitoring are essential safeguards in a cash handling environment—and what happens when they fail.
Corporate America’s Profits Are Booming—and Signal More Good Times Ahead - WSJ
Corporate profit growth year-over-year illustrates horizontal analysis—comparing earnings across periods to spot trends. This economy-wide surge reveals what strong financial performance looks like when you strip away single-quarter noise.
Luxury gym Equinox in refinancing talks to shred debt and bulk up cash - Financial Times
Equinox, a luxury fitness chain, is refinancing its debt to lower interest costs and improve cash flow. This real-world example shows how companies restructure long-term loans to manage liabilities and strengthen their balance sheet.
Cases
Bread & Bloom Bakery
Four decisions land on one bakery’s counter — a discount hotel order, a dough outsourcing quote, a “money-losing” catering line, and an aging oven — and the class learns which numbers deserve a vote.
Joint Ownership Inc.
Students identify cost drivers for a small business using both their own intuition and AI suggestions, then reflect on the bias trade-offs between the two approaches.
The Board Forge
The class launches a custom skateboard company, builds its cost plan with an AI advisor probing the gaps, then prices a single board to feel the difference between the costs of making boards and the costs of running the business.
Talks
Between us we've taught accounting for a long time. Along the way we recorded videos, wrote cases, and started tracking business news that lines up with what we teach.
Students pay attention when the chapter shows up in something they read that morning. This site is where all of it lives.
Take anything that's useful in your classroom.