Accounting education literature review (2010–2012)

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Market relevance of university accounting programs: Evidence from Australia

This paper examines the ‘state of play’ with regard to accounting education reform, which has been advocated for decades but is notable for having failed to produce significant change.  We build on...

Taking the Pulse of Accounting Education Reform: Liberal Education, Sociological Perspectives, and Exploring Ways Forward.

This paper critically assesses the potential of the liberal arts to contribute to accounting education in the USA. I argue that the contribution that these disciplines can make through current institutional structures is quite limited and highly conflicted. A proposal is made to extract the essential skills that are believed to be produced by the liberal arts. These could be re-embedded in an accounting education that featured the classic professionalism model as a conceptual centerpiece. Consequences of such an approach are extended and limitations are recognized.

Revitalizing Accounting Education: A Highly Applied Liberal Arts Approach

The current study aims to explore the skills needed for accounting graduates as expected by employers in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), and to rank those skills based on their level of importance. A questionnaire was developed and distributed to the heads of accounting and internal audit departments in Saudi listed companies as they are responsible for hiring new employees. The results of the statistical analysis showed that Saudi employers considered most of the skills that were mentioned in the questionnaire as important skills and ranked them based on their importance level as follows (beginning with the most important):Critical Reasoning and Thinking, Problem and Decision Analysis, Oral Presentation and Communication, Team Working, Business Ethics, Time Management, Negotiation, Written Communication, Computer, Planning, Leadership, and finally, Internet Research Skills, respectively. Also, the results indicate that employers consider Leadership, WrittenCommunication, Negotiation, and Ethics asmore important for auditing jobs than pure accounting jobs.

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Accounting Graduates Skills and Employers’ Needs: The Saudi Case

Will more liberal arts courses fix the accounting curriculum

A positivist methodological perspective that emphasises quantitative methods and is incapable of addressing complex social issues overwhelmingly characterises the body of literature published in mainstream accounting journals. The US system of graduate education in accounting is, in large part, responsible for the homogeneity of this paradigm and for the absence of any theoretical creativity and/or methodological innovation in accounting scholarship. Large accounting PhD programs have seized control of research activities by instituting restrictive norms, by creating barriers to intellectual dialogue, by exploiting the reward structures used to influence conformity, and by siphoning financial resources from major accounting firms to fund their mainstream research activities. This paper presents a script – based on an old Saturday Night Live skit – for use in a doctoral seminar as a ‘launching point’ for exploring perspectives other than the mainstream paradigm and poses a series of questions to facilitate discussion among the seminar participants.

Stephen D. Willits

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Will more liberal arts courses fix the accounting curriculum

Theodoric of Triple-A-Ville, accounting professor: a one-act play for a doctoral seminar