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**Standard 1** ** Teachers know the subjects they are teaching. **  The teacher understands the central concepts, tools of inquiry, and structures of the disciplines she or he teaches and can create learning experiences that make these aspects of subject matter meaningful for pupils

**Rationale 1:** The Annual Report Project increases 10th – 12th grade students’ knowledge of how accounting in the real world. Students get to see how accounting is more than just debits and credits. After studying corporate accounting, student groups and select a publicly traded company to report on their financial position. Students get a chance to see how both the company and investors to make financial decisions using the numbers provided by the accountants. Using either PowerPoint or Prezi, students create a presentation for possible investor on why they should invest in the company.
 * Evidence1: ** [[file:ANNUAL REPORT.docx]]

This project allows me to see how well students understand the big picture of accounting and how it affects how people invest their money. Student can see that a career in accounting can be very interesting and not just the moving of debits and credits. The sample above shows the audit team memo sent for the candy industry.

Using the annual report of a company of their choice, students must interpret the data presented to potential investors. This project allows me to continually look at real world data used in the accounting profession and stay up to date on how real companies handle their accounting. **1.S.5 The teacher develops and uses curricula that encourage students to see, question, and interpret ideas from diverse** **perspectives.** This project requires students to interpret the information of others by bringing in the accounting data from many different industries. The presentations give students a chance to see how many different industries function and the different levels of success in various industries. They must also investigate companies in the industry of their company and question how the company fits into the norms of the industry. **1.D.3 The teacher has enthusiasm for the discipline(s) s/he teaches and sees connections to everyday life.**This project gives the students exposure to real world accounting as a very dynamic profession. Many times after doing the research the students show a great interest in the accounting profession is not just sitting in a room recording debits and credits.
 * KSD: ** **1.K.1 The teacher understands the major concepts, assumptions, debates, processes of inquiry, and ways of knowing that are central to the discipline(s) s/he teaches** **.**