Experience Summary
As a senior and after graduation, I tutored accounting students in order to assist with the understanding of accounting principles. I have spent many years training entry level accountants in many different industries and have a particular concentration in health care. I have 33 years of financial accounting experience in a variety of settings and have held positions from a staff accountant to a corporate treasurer involved in taking the first penny stock public since the days of Mr. Brennen and the First Jersey Scandal. This alone took 3 years of negotiations with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Teaching Style
Teaching by example with the use of hands-on experience and exercises is the best method for learning the actual practice of accounting. Text books teach only very basic theory and are not as useful for practice as it eists in the real world. The studennts must understand theory but must also learn how to apply that theory to real situations and understand when to be creative within the practice. I prefer to attempt to use examples and illustrate situations that the students are likely to encounter in real life rather than a text book ideal. This method will mean much more to a student attempting to make sense out of real practice as opposed to a sample that most likely doesn't exist in the real world.