Abstract: Financial Accounting is a course which attaches equal importance to theory and practice, its aim is to make the students comprehend the accounting theory as well as cultivate their practice ability. So, during teaching, how to reform teaching methods to accomplish this objective becomes an important subject for teacher.Starting from the disadvantage of traditional teaching, this article expounds the significance ,implementation methods and steps of case teaching in financial accounting teaching, and then analyzes the present problems. At last, combining with the years of teaching experience, the author puts forward some suggestions to improve the case teaching in financial accounting course.