2011 Howard Teall Innovation in Accounting Education Award Results

The Education Committee of the CAAA is pleased to announce the results of the 2011 Howard Teall Innovation in Accounting Education Award Competition!  

Marsha Huber of Youngstown State University and Shirine Mafi of Otterbein University have been awarded first place and a prize of $500 for her submission, Philanthropy in Accounting Education.

This innovation in accounting education project goes beyond the typical service learning project because of its social justice and decision-making components. In this model, students award funds to not-for-profit (NFP) agencies based on a competitive proposal process that they develop and administer. They were given two restrictions: (1) they had to be deliberate in their decision-making process and justify their decisions, and (2) some agencies had to be denied funding (thereby forcing students to make decisions regarding resource allocation).  

Chris Burnley of Vancouver Island University has been awarded second place and a prize of $250 for his submission, Berries for Breakfast: A Teaching Analogy for the Audit Risk Model.

The submission is a teaching analogy developed to facilitate students’ understanding of the professional judgement incumbent in the audit risk model.  It provides a simple context linking the risk assessment process and the nature and extent of the auditor’s work. The analogy also provides students with easy to understand illustrations of common risk factors.