SPOTLIGHT ON Accounting

TEACHING

Read summaries of accounting articles in the news, watch videos exploring accounting topics, and (members only) download slides to use in class discussions.

RESEARCH

Deepen your understanding of learning sciences research, as well as discoveries made through academic research relating to important topics in accounting.

TEACHING TOPICS

Ch 1-4: Accounting Cycle

Ch. 5: Fraud, Internal Control, Cash

Ch 6: Merchandising Operations

Ch 7: Inventory and COGS

Ch 8: Receivables, Bad Debts, Interest

Ch 9: Long-lived Tangible / Intangible

Ch. 10: Liabilities

Ch. 11: Stockholders' Equity

Ch. 12: Statement of Cash Flows

Ch. 13: Evaluating Financial Performance

These topics are organized for ease of use with Fundamentals of Financial Accounting, written by Phillips/Libby/Libby and published by McGraw-Hill Education.

Fred Phillips

PhD, CPA, CA (Canada)

I am a Professor of Accounting at the Edwards School of Business at the University of Saskatchewan. I have taught the first undergraduate course in financial accounting, written instructional cases, and conducted research on teaching for more than 20 years. My goals for this website are to share instructional materials I am presently developing, and to obtain feedback from instructors and students to guide revisions before I incorporate these materials into one of the accounting textbooks I author and publish through McGraw-Hill Education in the U.S. and Canada.