ACCOUNTING PERSPECTIVES
Instructional Cases and Teaching Notes

Teaching notes

Incorporation of JACR within AP

As part of the CAAA's plan to offer more services of interest to its members, in 2007 it took over the publication of accounting cases previously offered by The Journal of Accounting Case Research (JACR). Eldon Gardner, the former Editor of JACR, became an Associate Editor of AP with the responsibility of managing the review process for cases.  

Guidelines for Instructional Case Writers

Accounting Perspectives welcomes instructional cases! Instructional cases should include a section at the end of the case that discusses the case learning objectives and implementation guidance. Teaching notes should follow at the very end of the document.  

Case Learning Objectives and Implementation Guidance

This section should include an overview of the case and its learning objectives, information about any specialized knowledge required and sources for obtaining that knowledge. Implementation guidance should address the courses that the case is best suited for and the level of student maturity required to fully appreciate the case material. In addition, the amount of time that will need to be devoted in and out of class and the nature of prior preparation that would be useful should be noted. Other pedagogical guidance such as the use of teams or other such approaches should be provided.

Classroom Testing

All case submissions should report the extent and type of classroom testing that has been conducted and provide evidence of the effectiveness of the case in achieving its objectives.

Teaching Notes

As mentioned earlier, the Teaching Notes should be appended at the very end of the submission. The teaching notes will be reviewed as part of the submission. The quality of the Teaching Notes is a major acceptance criterion for the case.

Although they will not be published in the journal to enhance the usefulness of the cases for instructional purposes, the Teaching Notes will be made available to full member subscribers to Accounting Perspectives through the journal’s website (see below).

Teaching Notes for Published Instructional Cases

In order to obtain access to the Teaching Notes, an instructor must be a current senior member of the CAAA  and must login at the Members Only section of the website. Student members and non-member subscribers are not permitted access to Teaching Notes.

The Teaching Notes contain charts and other such materials that are clearly intended to be shown or given out to students as part of the instructional use of the case. However, solutions and other parts of the Teaching Notes are for the instructor’s personal use only. Please note that by clicking on the link below you acknowledge and accept the obligation to keep confidential the parts of the Teaching Notes that are intended for the instructor’s personal use only and you agree not to distribute the Teaching Notes to anyone else or repost them to any website.

Click here to view the published cases which have available Teaching Notes.  

Click here to login at the Members Only section of the website to access the Teaching Notes.

• Financial Times Business School Rankings: A Nontraditional Assurance Case in Three Parts.
  Andrea B. Davis and Steven  E. Salterio.  
  Case published in Volume 6, Issue 1 (Teaching Notes)   
• La Chevrotière, Coopérative agro-alimentaire
  Raymond Morissette and Johanne Turbide
  Case published in Volume 6, Issue 2 (Teaching Notes) (English version of case with Teaching Notes also available)
• Société générale de financement: From the Welfare State to the "Reinvented" State
  Danielle Morin
  Case published in Volume 6, Issue 3 (Teaching Notes)  
• Taking Stock at Quantum University
  Gary Grudnitski and Howard R. Toole
  Case published in Volume 6, Issue 4 (Teaching Notes)
• St.Thomas University: Which Balanced Scorecard to Use?
  Yee-Ching Lilian Chan
  Case published in Volume 6, Issue 4 (Teaching Notes)
• The Legacy of The Journal of Accounting Case Research (1992-2007)
  Michael Krause
  Case published in Volume 7, Issue 1 (Teaching Notes)
•  JM Custom Wheels, Inc.: Ethics in Loan Collateral Reporting
  Joseph G. Donelan, Edward A. Kaplan and Pamela S. Weathers
  Case published in Volume 7, Issue 1 (Teaching Notes)
• Governmental Purchase Card Programs: A Case on the Stewardship of Public Resources
  Timothy H. Mills, Carol J. Normand, Richard J. Palmer
  Case published in Volume 7, Issue 1 (Teaching Notes)
• Transition Therapeutics
  Diane Paul and Philémon Rakoto
  Case published in Volume 7, Issue 2 (Teaching Notes)
• Enticing Employees to Lie: Using Role Play to Understand and Mitigate Unintended Consequences of Budgeting
  Norman T. Sheehan
  Case published in Volume 7, Issue 2 (Teaching Notes)
• Double Two - Instructional Case Study
  Albie Brooks and Gillian Vesty
  Case published in Volume 7, Issue 3 (Teaching Notes)
• Designing and Implementing an Information System for the Dental Office of Branckowitz & Young
  Alex Nikitkov and Barbara Sainty
  Case published in Volume 7, Issue 4 (Teaching Notes)
• A Balanced Scorecard for State U’s Facilities Management Division?
  Norman T. Sheehan, Ganesh Vaidyanathan, Suresh Kalagnanam
  Case published in Volume 8, Issue 1 (Teaching Notes)
• Smith & Jones LLP: Mapping a Clear Path to the Future
  Norman T. Sheehan
  Case published in Volume 8, Issue 2 (Teaching Notes)
• Great Galaway Goslings: Organizational Context of Managerial Accounting
  Wagdy Abdallah, Theresa F. Henry, Athar Murtuza, Renee E. Weiss
  Case published in Volume 8, Issue 3 (Teaching Notes)
• Garda World
  Philémon Rakoto
  Case published in Volume 8, Issue 4 (Teaching Notes)