A Case-Based Approach to Intermediate Accounting Courses

New Hires Ready to Hit the Ground Running

Robert P. Derstine, PhD, CPA, and James M. Emig, PhD, CPA, and Thomas J. Grant, CMA, and Kenneth Hiltebeitel, PhD, CPA

Would you be pleased if your new hires, straight out of college, were ready to be productive their first day on the job—already possessing “seven years of experience providing review, audit, tax, and consulting services for a CPA firm”? An intensive, case-based, two-semester intermediate accounting course, which also integrates components from both corporate tax and auditing classes, can provide the profession with such new hires (Connie Esmond-Kiger, Business Activity Model for Teaching Intermediate Accounting, 5th ed., 2009 [with continual updates]). Both accounting graduates and their employers can benefit from this course, described in further detail below.