Online Learning Center

For the third play in the Learning System, the Coach wants you to go online. Spiceland, Sepe, and Tomassini strongly believe in the power of the internet to enhance the learning experience. This trend-setting website provides students and faculty with extensive and evolving learning resources. An essential component of the SST Learning System, the Website provides real-time, electronic resources that supplement and complement both the text and the Coach CD. Parts of the Coach CD link with the website to provide the most useful and up-to-date learning resources available anywhere.

For consistency and compatibility, all the resources at the website (other than external links) were created or designed by the authors.

Website Features:

The Student Center is where students find a wide variety of helpful resources including:

• Truly unique e-Learning Sessions in which links to a variety of multimedia enhancements add reinforcement and excitement to chapter summaries
• Practice exams
• Self-grading quizzes
• Electronic flashcards
• PowerPoint tutorial
• Alternate exercises and problems
• Up-to-date career information
• Internet primer
• Articles related to chapter topics
• Real-World, real-time electronic cases
• Present value tables
• Amortization schedules
• Spreadsheet application templates (SPATS)
• Links to FASB and IASC pronouncement summaries

The Faculty Lounge is where instructors find useful teaching tools including:

• Additional assignment materials
• Lecture guides
• Modifiable teaching transparency masters
• Assignment guides
• Sample syllabi
• A variety of class activities
• PowerPoint presentations
• Solutions manual
• Case implementation manual
• FASB updates
• Complete, revised chapters if new FASB pronouncements are issued
• PageOut to create a course website and/or online course
• Test generator, online gradebook and quizzing ability, and synchronous discussion groups available with PageOut or other course management solutions, such as WebCT and Blackboard.
• Online Learning Center compatible with other course management solutions, such as WebCT and Blackboard.