Join the Community Impact Activity, Sponsored by Becker Professional Education

This year's Community Impact Activity at the 2026 Beta Alpha Psi Annual Meeting challenges Beta Alpha Psi chapters to bring financial literacy to life in their local communities. Create an engaging, student-friendly presentation that introduces high school students to entrepreneurship and key financial concepts.

The top five submissions will be selected for distribution to high schools in the Baltimore area, where they will be used as teaching tools to help students learn fundamental accounting, entrepreneurship, and business financial literacy. This initiative also provides an opportunity to showcase your chapter’s submission or business idea within local high schools in your own community. Through this opportunity, your chapter can make a lasting impact while inspiring the next generation of business leaders.

Participating chapters will receive one Reaching Out Activity (ROA).

Project Materials

Pre-Meeting Ask

• Watch an Overview of the Instructions [Video 4:53] >
• Download the Printable Instructions [PDF] >

PowerPoint Template

• Watch an Overview of the PowerPoint Template [5:31] >
• Download the PowerPoint presentation template >

Onsite Impact Activity

Thursday, July 30 from 1-3:00 PM ET
Meeting attendees will assemble the winning printed presentations into financial literacy kits to be distributed to high school students in the greater Baltimore area. 

Deadline

Submit your chapter's presentation by Monday, June 29, 2026 by 11:59 PM ET 

Community Impact Activity Submission Form

Your Objective

To teach high school students a lesson about accounting and financial literacy.

Use the presentation template provided as a foundation to:

1. Create your own summer business concept.
   Be creative, this should reflect something realistic and engaging for high school students.
2. Build out your own version of the financial story to teach high school students about six concepts:
   • Assets (1), Liabilities (2), and Equity (3)
   • Balance Sheet (4), Income Statement (5), and Statement of Cash Flows (6)
3. Develop teaching slides that clearly and simply explain these six concepts to a high school audience.

Instructions

• We provided you with a PowerPoint presentation template to guide you through this project.
• This template is designed as a starting point and a guide to build your chapter’s own presentation.
• Winning presentations will be distributed to local high schools to help students learn about accounting, entrepreneurship, and business financial literacy.

Think of yourselves as both:

• Entrepreneurs → building a business
• Educators → teaching accounting and financial literacy

The final presentation deck that you build should make accounting feel like a story students can follow and understand, not just numbers on a page.

Guidelines

• Use the provided slides as a structural guide, but customize everything:
  • Business idea
  • Numbers and assumptions
  • Visual aids
• Keep explanations simple, clear, and engaging for high school students
• Incorporate visuals, creativity, and real-world relevance
• Ensure all three financial statements connect logically

Projects will be evaluated based on:

1. Creativity and originality of the business idea
2. Accuracy of accounting concepts
3. Clarity of teaching and explanations
4. Quality of the presentation
5. Overall effort and professionalism

Prizes - The top 5 teams will:

🏫 Have their presentations distributed to high schools throughout Baltimore

🍕 Win a pizza party for your chapter

🎁 Plus additional swag and goodies

Keep in mind:

• This is an opportunity to apply your accounting knowledge in a meaningful way while helping others learn.
• Have fun with it, be creative, and think about the impact you can make.
• You are the world's future accounting leaders, now it is time for you to help usher in the next generation of BAP members and future accountants!