Abstract The article focuses on a workshop in fundamental accounting. A special challenge faces instructors of the first-term accounting principles course. Very often, the course is given at the freshman level and thus is addressed to students many of whom still have to acquire proper study habits and a mature view of demands of college and their future. In such case, education must try to produce corrective results in a short time. The term "laboratory" in fundamental accounting covers a wide range of activities. A laboratory may include group discussions, study supervision and individual tutoring. Usually it offers some sort of supervised practice, with the instructor and/or his assistants helping out individual students where needed. Features, frequently cited as advantages of the laboratory are: the guidance and attention given to students as individuals produce strong encouragement, the personal contact between teacher and student is beneficial to both, students have the opportunity to work at their own pace and poor students may handle reenforcement problems, while good students may do additional, more complex work.
John Pick (Wed,) studied this question.