3. Professional Skills Development Activities
The following are suggested assignments from the end-of-chapter material that will help your
students develop their communication, research, analysis, and judgment skills.
Communication Skills. Research Case 15-2 and IFRS Cases 15-5 and 15-10 are suitable for
student presentation(s). In addition to Communication Cases 15-3 and 15-8, Research Case
15-2 can be adapted to ask students to write a memo to the Controller supporting their position.
Question 11, Problem 15-4, and Ethics Case 15-4 create good class discussions. In addition to
Communication Case 15-3 and Analysis Case 15-1 do well as group assignments. Discussion
Questions 15-6 and 15-11, and Real World Cases 15-5 and 15-6 create good class discussions.
Research Skills. In their professional lives, our graduates will be required to locate and extract
relevant information from available resource material to determine the correct accounting
Analysis Skills. The “Broaden Your Perspective” section includes Analysis Cases that direct
students to gather, assemble, organize, process, or interpret date to provide options for making
business and investment decisions. In addition to Analysis Case 15-1, Exercises 15-8, 15-9,
and 15-10, Communication Case 15-3, and Real World Cases 15-5 and 15-6 also provide
opportunities to develop analysis skills.
15-6, and 15-7, and Trueblood Case 15-8 also require students to exercise judgment.