Using microcomputers to teach accounting
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Guidelines for the selection of computer programs available for use on microcomputers and designed to instruct students in accounting applications are provided for four levels of accounting instruction: introductory levels, lower levels, advanced levels, and graduate levels. At the introductory and lower levels instructors should remember that students are not familiar with either accounting or microcomputers. Other criteria that should be used when selecting instructional software packages include: (1) the package should clearly define its learning objectives; (2) complicated procedural packages should be avoided; (3) the package should ensure that students learn accounting fundamentals; (4) homework assignments should reflect topics discussed in class; and (5) the software should require students to select the data to be input, input the data properly and interpret the output.
Publication Name: Management Accounting (USA)
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0025-1690
Year: 1986
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The revolution in accounting education
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The Accounting Education Change Commission (AECC) is promoting change in the education of accountants, including: changing from a knowledge-based education to a process-oriented program; teaching accounts to learn by developing their skills and strategies for learning more effectively through changes in program content; developing a process of inquiry in students; and fostering a life-long attitude of continual learning in students. The AECC hopes to affect changes in general education in order to develop students' intellectual, communication, and interpersonal skills; in the general business education in order to promote the understand the various areas of a company; in the general accounting education in order to expand the definition of accounting needs; and in specialized accounting education in order to remove it to the graduate study level.
Publication Name: Management Accounting (USA)
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0025-1690
Year: 1990
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Professional accounting education - back to the future?
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The quality of professional accounting education may be declining as a growing number of accountants in the academe leave teaching for the more lucrative area of research. The Accounting Education Change Commission (AECC) was established to stop deterioration and upgrade the education of accountants. The AECC should address the urgent issues of reaching a balance among teaching, research and professional service; of determining the necessary credentials required of professional accounting teachers; and of making clear distinctions between management accounting education and public accounting education.
Publication Name: Management Accounting (USA)
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0025-1690
Year: 1992
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