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Assessment Of The 'Accounting Cycle': Test Tools For The Accounting Professor, Nicole M. Swanson
Assessment Of The 'Accounting Cycle': Test Tools For The Accounting Professor, Nicole M. Swanson
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
The two main goals of this thesis are to provide an assessment tool for accounting professors as well as a learning tool for students to gain a better understanding of the accounting cycle. Many students coming out of the basic accounting courses have a pretty good understanding of the different parts of the accounting cycle, but few have a solid understanding of the bigger picture and how each part fits together. I believe this is partly due to the fact that students in 200 level courses are never required to complete the accounting cycle from beginning to end. As such, …
Growing Up Financially Literate: A Lifelong Curriculum, Amanda J. Brown
Growing Up Financially Literate: A Lifelong Curriculum, Amanda J. Brown
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
This work ventures to find a solution to one source of economic instability: financial illiteracy. The inability to manage money, caused by a lack of education, has led to poor decision making. These bad decisions can lead to a number of financial hardships, as well as emotional and physical problems. Better education can combat all of these symptoms and lead to a healthier financial future. Growing Up Financially Literate attempts to help close the curriculum gap surrounding financial literacy by recognizing that the gap does not only exist in a single age group. Financial education cannot stop with any one …