The Great Accounting Escape: A Teaching Tool for Relevant Costing and Short-Term Decisions Available to Purchase

We thank the anonymous reviewers and participants of the 2021 American Accounting Association (AAA) AIS Midyear Meeting and the 2021 AAA Conference on Teaching and Learning and Accounting for their helpful comments in an earlier draft of this paper. Finally, we owe a debt of gratitude to Michael Hayes for his coding skills and endless patience with this project and our colleagues for testing this case in their courses.

We thank the AIPCA for the Bea Sanders Award for Innovations in Teaching Award, the IMA for the Jim Bulloch Award for Innovations in Management Accounting, and the Best Education Paper Award at the 2021 AAA AIS Midyear Meeting.

Jennifer M. Cainas, University of South Florida, Muma College of Business, Lynn Pippenger School of Accountancy, Accounting Department, Tampa, FL, USA; Juliana M. Kralik, The University of Tampa, Sykes College of Business, Accounting Department, Tampa, FL, USA.

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Editor’s note: Accepted by Kimberly M. Sawers, under the Senior Editorship of Janet A. Samuels.