In the course of management accounting, the active application of innovative education concept is helpful to cultivate students’ good professional ability and core literacy. This paper introduces the CDIO teaching concept to reconstruct the teaching process of management accounting course, from goal setting to three-level ability outline design, and designs a questionnaire for the implementation effect of teaching reform. According to the feedback data, the results are analyzed, and the teaching optimization countermeasures of management accounting course are put forward, hoping to take this opportunity to improve the teaching level of the course and the core literacy of students’ management accounting professional skills, and provide reference for other course teaching reforms.