• When you hear the word accounting, what ideas immediately come to your mind?
• How would you describe accountants?
• What worries you the most about taking an accounting course?
• Explain how you presently may use accounting in your personal life. For example, do you use your monthly personal bank statement to reconcile your bank account balance to your checkbook each month?
• Have you ever filled out a credit application to apply for any type of loan where you had to disclose your personal assets and liabilities?