Do You Long for AP Accounting? Or Accounting Honors?

There is an initiative to encourage the College Board to add Accounting to the AP curriculum led by Dr. Dan Deines of the Accounting Department at Kansas State University. The initiative is called "The Accounting Pilot and Bridge Project." You can read more about this project at http://accountingpilot.com/

The Texas Society of CPA's is considering hosting Dr. Dan Deines in Texas to offer his three-day training program on accounting curriculum that has been approved for dual credit in other states. This training will prepare participants to teach the Accounting Pilot curriculum in their high schools. It is hoped that having an abundance of teachers already trained to teach AP Accounting would help convince the College Board to add Accounting to their AP curriculum.

If you are a Texas high school educator interested in having this training program offered in Texas, please email me and I will forward to you the email from the TSCPA so you can respond to a very short survey to show your interest and to indicate your choice of the best time of year for the training to be offered.

This message was posted November 30, 2011

Look for updates to this website in the coming months.

LaVerne Funderburk, CPA

UIL Accounting State Contest Director

Welcome to the UIL Accounting website.

Coaches, please use this email address to contact the State Director:

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If the content of this website does not answer your questions about this contest, please e-mail me. Your input will help improve the site for everyone involved.

Contest Rules

The rules for all UIL Academic contests are found in the publication called UIL Constitution and Contest Rules commonly referred to as C&CR. The rules are available online on the UIL Academic website.

Section 920 Accounting--Students and coaches new to this event must begin by carefully studying these rules. Failure to do so could lead to a contestant's disqualification from the contest.

Additional useful sections for this event include:

Subchapter M (student eligibility)
Section 902 (district meets)
Section 903 (regional meets)

UIL Accounting Concepts

The UIL Accounting Concepts List for 2010-11 is posted below. It remains the same as last year's list. This list will be used for future years as well, as long as the current state-adopted textbooks are to be used.

The purpose of this list is to show general content areas to be covered at each level of competition: district, region, and state.

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High School State-Adopted Texts

The content of the UIL Accounting contest materials is based on the following state-adopted materials for first-year accounting: Glencoe Accounting Real-World Applications & Connections, Fifth Edition, copyright 2004; South-Western Century 21 Accounting, Seventh Edition (Texas Edition), copyright 2004. Southwestern offers a General Journal approach textbook and a Multicolumn Journal approach textbook.

These publishers may print subsequent editions. The UIL Accounting contest materials will continue to be based on the editions originally adopted for classroom use in the State of Texas (as listed above).

Study & Practice Materials

The best way to practice for the UIL Accounting contest is to take prior year tests. These are available under "Archived Exams" found in the left menu bar.

The UIL Academic website (Tab called Resources; then choose Additional Resources) lists those vendors who have indicated to the UIL that they have study materials available for sale. For study materials written by LaVerne Funderburk, please select the Product Sales tab on the top menu of this page.

Official UIL Calendar

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 District Week One and District Week Two are scheduled
when the Regional Meet is held
when the State Meet is held

Set A and Set B Invitational exams are written by LaVerne Funderburk. Schools can order them from UIL to use at invitational meets they host during the range of dates indicated on the Official 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 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.

UIL Conflict Pattern

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. 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. We hope Accounting remains your choice!

Visit These Websites Often!

The UIL Academic state office uses their website to communicate with member schools. The closer we get to spring competition, the more often you should visit the UIL Academic website.

Likewise, for the most current information about UIL Accounting please visit this site often. We want students to be prepared for competition and to feel confident in that preparation.

LaVerne Funderburk, CPA