Getting Together or Managerial Accounting

Getting Together: Icebreakers and Group Energizers

Author: Lorraine L Ukens

These brief, interactive games and activities raise your participants' awareness and prepare them to learn something new. Designed to be fun and energizing, the activities help people overcome the initial anxiety common among new acquaintances or in group situations.

This collection is conveniently divided into two categories: 1) icebreakers, which encourage mixing, and 2) group challenges, which energize and build team cohesion.

Use these games to:

• Promote interaction
• Introduce your topic
• Ease anxieties regarding sensitive or emotional issues
• Form partnerships or teams during the session
• Help people feel comfortable with the environment, the topic to be discussed, and one another
• Gain control of a group
• Get meetings started on a stimulating note

Each game is presented in a concise and easy-to-follow format. You'll get details such as objectives, materials required, preparation, activity instructions, variations, discussion questions, group size, time required, and reproducible worksheets or material templates.

Use these icebreakers today to energize your group for the work ahead!

Table of Contents:

Introduction.
Icebreakers-Big To-Do-Box Bingo-Bullseye-Comic Capers-Common Scents-Defining Moments-Eagle's Nest-Facts of Life-Frozen Treats-Global View-Hum-Dingers-The Hunt is On-In This Corner-Limerick Lines-Many Happy Returns-Moniker Medley-Name Chain-Official Orders-The Right Connections-Spelling Bee-Talking in Circles-What's in a Name-Who Could it Be?
Group Energizers-Alphabet Soup-Balloon Bounce-Closer Observation-Data Directory-Food Chain Relay-Four-by-Four-Goal TAnding-Gridlock-Hand it Over-Hidden Hands-Imagine That-In Search of-Just Like?-Keys to Success-Last Straw-No Vowels Allowed-Picture Perfect-Poem's Progress-Quote Cubes-Rhymed Riddles-Scrambled Sense-Sock Search-Team Challenge-Team Hats-Tic-Tactical-Toe-Tribal Adventure-Trivial Numbers-Visual Effects.

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Managerial Accounting

Author: Don R Hansen

Prepare your students to perform at their best with the latest streamlined and reorganized edition of this innovative managerial accounting text. Hansen/Mowen's MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING, 8E reflects the latest developments in managerial accounting today with a strong decision-making approach that integrates unmatched coverage of contemporary topics, such as strategic cost analysis, ABC, and quality cost management, with traditional coverage of issues such as job order and process costing. Unique, full chapters on environmental accounting and lean accounting further highlight cutting-edge concepts. A wealth of actual business examples throughout this edition include more service-oriented situations to mirror the shift toward the service industry in the economy today. A new emphasis on ethics prepares students for CPA and CMA exams. You'll find more variety and stronger end-of-chapter problems and exercises that correspond directly to AACSB and CMA standards to ensure student understanding in these important areas. A new, outcomes-driven CengageNOW online teaching and learning system saves you time and offers the ultimate flexibility in planning, managing, and grading your course with personalized learning paths to ensure stronger student performance and ongoing satisfaction with your managerial accounting course.