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- Title: Introductory Accounting Curriculum Changes: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Complex Issues Facing Small Schools (Manuscripts)
- Author : Academy of Educational Leadership Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2004
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 225 KB
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ABSTRACT This paper investigates the effects of changes to the introductory accounting curriculum on student retention, student course grades, student attitudes toward accounting and faculty attitudes toward the new teaching approach. In an effort to meet the changing demands of the accounting profession the faculty at a small midwestern college developed a plan for revising the first two introductory accounting courses offered to all students majoring in a business related field with guidance provided by The Accounting Education Change Commission (AECC). The AECC, appointed by the American Accounting Association (AAA), developed two statements on the future of accounting education. Position Statement Number One: Objectives of Education for Accountants set out the Commission's views on accounting education and provided a focus for the academic community. Position Statement Number Two: The First Course in Accounting outlined the knowledge, skills and orientation accounting students should possess to be successful. Empirical results of student performance are presented. The paper concludes with a discussion of how suggestions made by the AECC and again in the monograph "Accounting Education: Charting the Course through a Perilous Future" will likely affect small colleges. The results of this investigation and the related discussion are important because they address the special issues faced by the hundreds of small schools who are now struggling to comply with directives from the accounting profession regarding curriculum reform.