The rules are located on the UIL Academic website:  https://www.uiltexas.org/policy/constitution/academics

Sections 900 through 906 include rules and policies for ALL academic events including Accounting.

Section 920 Accounting--This section is specifically for the Accounting contest.  (Just don't forget to look at Sections 900 through 906!!!)

Each academic contest has an accompanying "Handbook" that provides essential procedural content. The "UIL Accounting Handbook" is available on the UIL Academics website:

https://www.uiltexas.org/academics/resources/contest-handbooks-manuals

Coaches and students should carefully review all of the above rules and Handbook procedures.  Failure to do so could lead to a contestant's disqualification from the contest.  You can avoid adverse results by being informed and prepared!

This section was updated on August 31, 2024.

The content of the UIL Accounting contest materials is based on high school FIRST-year Accounting as suggested by the Texas state-adopted materials.

Proclamation 2017 was issued in April 2015 with adoption to occur in November 2016.  The new materials are for classroom use beginning with the 2017-18 school year.

The materials listed on the Texas state-adopted list include: 1) Glencoe Accounting (McGraw-Hill Education, printed 2016); 2) South-Western Century 21 Accounting (Cengage Learning, Tenth Edition, printed 2016); and CEV Multimedia Ltd. (Please note that Cengage Southwestern offers a "General Journal approach" textbook and a "Multicolumn Journal approach" textbook.)

These publishers may print or update to subsequent editions, but not all schools will upgrade. Therefore, the UIL Accounting contest materials will continue to refer to the editions originally adopted for classroom use in the State of Texas (as listed above, printed in 2016).

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Please see the attached PDF file for the UIL Schedule of Concepts for the Accounting Contest.  This is also known as the "UIL Accounting Concepts List." 

The UIL Accounting Concepts List is a GENERAL FRAMEWORK to guide coaches and contestants as you prepare for each level of competition.  The list is NOT all-inclusive.

The first school year this "new" list was used was 2017-18 and was added to this website on December 10, 2017.  This list will be used in the 2024-25 school year.  

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Please be aware that contest scheduling has a guideline set by UIL referred to as the Conflict Pattern.  This grid or table is available on the UIL Academic website (Resources, Academic Coordinator Resources, Additional Resources).  It helps you see what multiple contests are offered with and without scheduling conflicts.

Typically, a district meet is spread out over a week's time so that overlapping scheduling of contests is avoided.  So students are encouraged to participate in as many UIL academic contests as that district schedule will allow.

But please understand that if you advance to the regional level in several contests, you many have a predicament at region...how to be in two or more places at the same time.  You may have to make some hard choices then.  However, choices are good things and even better when you anticipate them.

Please study the UIL Conflict Pattern available on the UIL Academic website:

https://www.uiltexas.org/files/academics/2024-2025_Academic_Conflict_Pattern.pdf

We hope Accounting remains your choice!

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The UIL Official Calendar provides vital information about academic contest dates.  For example, it shows:

• when Set A Invitational materials may first be used
• when Set B Invitational materials may first be used
• when the District Meet is held
• when the Regional Meet is held
• when the State Meet is held

Set A and Set B Invitational exams are written by the state contest director.  Set A will NOT contain "Payroll" content; whereas Set B typically DOES include "Payroll." Schools can order Set A, Set B from UIL to use at invitational meets they host during the range of dates indicated on the Official Calendar.

https://www.uiltexas.org/calendar

Please be aware that if you attend two invitational meets during the Set A time period, students may see the same test again.  Not every school hosting an invitational meet will choose to use Set A or Set B materials.  They may write their own tests or purchase them from a vendor.  Call the invitational meet director to inquire BEFORE you board the bus.

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The best way to practice for the UIL Accounting contest is to take prior year tests.

This is the first school year that UIL Academics has posted prior year tests on their website.  Please note, they are in PDF format (not Microsoft Word format).  As of the date of this update (shown below), the years included are 2018 through 2024.  Here is a link:

https://www.uiltexas.org/academics/page/2024-high-school-academic-study-materials

It is LaVerne's understanding that more "older" years will be added at some point to the UIL Academics site. Until then the "Archived Exams" on this website (located in the left menu bar) are in Microsoft Word format and include the years 2023 all the way back to 1997.

The UIL Accounting Concepts for 2024-25 is the same as the prior year and has not changed since the school year beginning in the fall of 2017.  (See the related articles on this site regarding textbooks and the Concept List.)

LaVerne Funderburk still writes study materials for UIL Accounting and will be focusing on Regional and State level contest packets.  See the PRODUCT SALES tab above.

NEED MORE CONTEST PREPARATION RESOURCES? The UIL Academic website lists those vendors who have indicated to the UIL that they have UIL Accounting study materials available for sale: 

https://www.uiltexas.org/academics/resources/additional-resources

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