Mark Chain/FSA Innovation in Graduate Teaching Award
The Mark Chain/FSA Innovation in Graduate Teaching Award is designed to recognize exceptional graduate accounting course practices. Award recipients are selected from the pool of accepted submissions to the AAA's Effective Learning Strategies Forum.
Lesson plans include learning objectives, detailed case/activity description, and addressed AICPA Pre-certification Core Competencies. Winning lessons/materials for all AICPA educator awards for this and previous years are available for download to AICPA members through the Accounting Educators' Curriculum Resource.
The finalist(s) in all three award categories will be asked to present their work at the following year’s American Accounting Association Conference on Teaching and Learning in Accounting (CTLA), receive a plaque and an AICPA funded award totaling $5,000. Honorable mention winner(s) in all three award categories will receive a plaque and an AICPA funded award totaling $500. Additionally, your work will be featured in the AICPA’s Accounting Professors’ Curriculum Resource, where all works of current and past winners are featured for use by academics.
Past Award Winners and Honorable Mentions are listed below.
Application deadline has been extended to August 15, 2020. Please apply here.
Other Educator Awards
- Bea Sanders/Innovation in Teaching Award for introductory-level accounting course curricula
- George Krull/Grant Thornton Innovation in Junior and Senior Level Teaching Award
For more information, contact the AICPA Academics Team at academics@aicpa.org.
Award Winners and Honorable Mention Recipients
2018 Mark Chain/FSA Teaching Innovation Award
Recipient: “Sustainability at Interface, Inc.: Applying the qualitative characteristics of useful financial information to environmental, social and governance (ESG) factor data”, Brigitte W. Muehlmann, Virginia E. Soybel, Robert M. Turner, Babson College (soybel@babson.edu; turnerr@babson.edu; bmuehlmann@babson.edu)
2017 Mark Chain/FSA Teaching Innovation Award
Recipient
“AICPA Core Competencies – An Experiential Learning Case to Increase Student Awareness of Professional Competencies for Accounting Career Success”
Maureen G. Butler, University of Tampa;
Kimberly Swanson Church, University of Missouri;
Gail Hoover King, Purdue University Northwest;
Angela Wheeler Spencer, Oklahoma State University
2016 Mark Chain/FSA Teaching Innovation Award
Recipient
“Interviewing for Requirements in the Advanced AIS Classroom”
Charles J. Leflar, Katie L. Terrell, and JaLynn Thomas, University of Arkansas
Honorable Mentions
“Case Method Teaching in a Graduate Class: Setting the Stage for Success”
Cassy Budd, Brigham Young University
2015 Mark Chain/FSA Teaching Innovation Award
Recipient
"Detective, Critic, Curator, Investigator - A Novel Approach to Encoruaging Student Research and Creativity”
Patricia Johnson, Canisius College
Honorable Mentions
“Crowdsourcing Analysis of Government Expenditures: "Armchair Auditors" - Case and Results of its Use in a Graduate Accounting Systems Class”
Daniel O'Leary, University of Southern California
“Bringing an Accounting Case to Life with Trained Actors: Teaching Interviewing and Teamwork Skills”
Genevieve Risner, Michigan State University
2014 Mark Chain/FSA Teaching Innovation Award
Recipient
"Digging Deep: Using Forensic Analytics as a Context to Teach Excel and Access”
Tina M. Loraas and DeWayne Searcy, Auburn University
Honorable Mentions
“The Original Forensics: Using Debate to Teach Critical Thinking Skills”
Timothy D. West, Lisa L. Roth, and Yanelly Villegas, Northern Illinois University
“A Business Communication Model for an MBA Managerial Accounting Course”
David Stout, Youngstown State University
2013 Mark Chain/FSA Teaching Innovation Award
Recipient
“Expanding Soft Skills: Incorporating Feedback in an MAS Capstone Course”
Jennifer Butler Ellis, Mark E. Riley and Rebecca Toppe Shortridge — Northern Illinois University
Honorable Mentions
“Should Congress Take a Bigger Tax Bite Out of Technology Companies?”
Mark Holtzblatt and John Geekie. — Cleveland State University
Norbert Tschakert — Salem State University
"Lean Accounting in Support of Lean Manufacturing: Ronny the Robot Simulation"
Rosemary Fullerton — Utah State University
2012 Mark Chain/FSA Teaching Innovation Award
Recipient
“Crossing the Line: Ordinary People Committing Extraordinary Crimes”
Kelly R. Pope — DePaul University
Honorable Mentions
“The Application of Lean Accounting to a Manufacturing Simulation: A Teaching Note”
Gerald K. De Busk and Clay L. Moerland, Jr. — University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Lawrence P. Grasso — Central Connecticut State University
“TeachingIFRS.com”
Mark Holtzblatt — Cleveland State University
Norbert Tschakert — Salem State University
2011 Mark Chain/FSA Teaching Innovation Award
Recipient
“Modelling Uncertainty in C-V-P Assignments: Going Beyond the Basics!”
Terry Campbell — Kelley School of Business at Indiana University – Bloomington
Paul M. Goldwater — University of Central Florida
David E. Stout — Youngstown State University
Honorable Mentions
“Jensen Pharma: A Governance Role Play”
J. Jay Keels — Coastal Carolina University
Norman T. Sheehan — University of Saskatchewan
“Simulating an Audit in a Graduate Auditing Class”
Rebecca Rosner — Long Island University – CW Post Campus
2010 Mark Chain/FSA Innovation in Graduate Teaching Award
Recipient
“How to Develop a Forensic Accounting Class that Investigates Local Cases of White Collar Crime: Lessons Learned from the Justice for Fraud Victims Project”
Sara Melendy and Gary Weber — Gonzaga University
Honorable Mentions
“Back to the Future: Using Accounting History to Explore Professional Opportunities”
Charles Leflar — University of Arkansas
Tracy Manly — University of Tulsa
Connie McKnight — University of Central Arkansas
“Radar Graphs: An Alternative and Complementary Approach to Ratio Analysis”
David G. De Boskey and Martha Doran — San Diego State University
