Welcome to the Educators' Resource Center!
This resource center is for Color Accounting Educators: those people involved in teaching accounting.
The Educator Resource Center (ERC) is designed to get you started on your Color Accounting Educator journey as quickly as possible, and also for you to return for further development, personal growth and fellowship. You can share your ideas here, and use those of others. You can ask and answer questions. You can get coaching and mentorship from more experienced people. And most importantly, you can build lifelong friendships.
In Corporate Education we are known as facilitators, trainers or consultants.
In Academic Education we are known as teachers, lecturers, tutors and professors.
In Personal Financial Education we are known as consultants, speakers and salespeople.
However we may describe ourselves, we serve the same essential purpose: to educate others about accounting.
The need for the Color Accounting community grows larger every day. Illiteracy in accounting is hurting people and preventing them from being their best selves. It is limiting their capacity to become financially literate which, in turn, is preventing them from developing business acumen and designing their own financial future.
The Color Accounting movement has become a flag-bearer for the #accountingliteracy movement globally. The community is now much, much larger than the organization that started it. Your membership in this community is what you want it to be. At one end of the spectrum you can grab and go, serving your learners only, and at the other end, you can contribute, your materials, your approach, your experience, yourself. Somewhere in there you will find your natural fit.
And for us here at Color Accounting International, it's pretty simple actually:
The Why: We awaken people to live lives of abundance.
The Mission: People are empowered to make wise decisions, collaborate effectively and amplify value - a financially conscious world.
Our Values: Accountability . Bold . Simplicity . Community
Over to you.
The Educator Resource Center (ERC) is designed to get you started on your Color Accounting Educator journey as quickly as possible, and also for you to return for further development, personal growth and fellowship. You can share your ideas here, and use those of others. You can ask and answer questions. You can get coaching and mentorship from more experienced people. And most importantly, you can build lifelong friendships.
In Corporate Education we are known as facilitators, trainers or consultants.
In Academic Education we are known as teachers, lecturers, tutors and professors.
In Personal Financial Education we are known as consultants, speakers and salespeople.
However we may describe ourselves, we serve the same essential purpose: to educate others about accounting.
The need for the Color Accounting community grows larger every day. Illiteracy in accounting is hurting people and preventing them from being their best selves. It is limiting their capacity to become financially literate which, in turn, is preventing them from developing business acumen and designing their own financial future.
The Color Accounting movement has become a flag-bearer for the #accountingliteracy movement globally. The community is now much, much larger than the organization that started it. Your membership in this community is what you want it to be. At one end of the spectrum you can grab and go, serving your learners only, and at the other end, you can contribute, your materials, your approach, your experience, yourself. Somewhere in there you will find your natural fit.
And for us here at Color Accounting International, it's pretty simple actually:
The Why: We awaken people to live lives of abundance.
The Mission: People are empowered to make wise decisions, collaborate effectively and amplify value - a financially conscious world.
Our Values: Accountability . Bold . Simplicity . Community
Over to you.
Accounting - hard to learn?
In this video, Peter Frampton is being interviewed about Accounting Literacy by Frank Felker. While the interview was intended for Corporate Educators, it still holds relevance for Academic Educators and provides a useful understanding of the Color Accounting philosophy and the results of the 20 year + R&D project we have conducted into "Why is accounting hard to learn?" [39:06 mins]
FAQ: Is color accounting 'real' accounting?
Absolutely. The teaching of accounting literacy has remained largely unchanged for over 500 years. All we have done is simplify it:
- Create a one-page visualizer of how accounting works (we call this the BaSIS Framework).
- Focus on the accounting language, creating simpler and cleaner transitional definitions of key concepts while eliminating lingusitic dissonances.
- Use the creation of modern accounting as an anchor point for financial statement design, linguistics and accounting practice.
- Eliminate the need for learners to rote learn debits and credits.
- Eliminate anything in the student's learning journey that wasn't specifically needed for them to become accounting literate.
Facebook anyone?Our Academic Educators may be interested in a Facebook page set up by community supporters Sonya Guthrie and Jennifer Rowell. The page is called "Color Accounting Classroom Enthusiasts" and is creating a bit of a stir. Check it out, share, add a visitor post or review - and do encourage others to check us out.
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