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Accounting
education changes course: communication skills and
real-world cases broaden the syllabus |
Twenty years ago detractors of accounting education were plentiful
among practitioners and academics alike. The heart of their
complaint was that university accounting curricula drilled
students in rote technical memorization at the expense of
the broader business, |
communication and analytical skills
they needed in a real world changing at warp speed.
Even recently
such critics were easy to find. For example, five years ago
in their widely read monograph "Accounting Education:
Charting the Course through a Perilous Future," professors
W. Steve Albrecht, CPA, CIA and CFE, and Robert J. Sack, CPA,
said accounting education was so "outdated and broken"
that failure to embrace reform could be fatal. Their
findings were controversial, but few argued with the thrust
of Albrecht and Sack's report: Educators needed to better
align accounting curricula with workplace realities and
alter their teaching methods to encourage critical thinking.
The AICPA credited the pair with presenting "a compelling
case for dramatically restructuring accounting education"
and urged educators to "boldly reengineer their curriculums
and programs using the roadmap provided by Professors Albrecht
and Sack." Three years later, in "Educating for
the Public Trust," PricewaterhouseCoopers said despite
advances there still were important educational gaps, from
not teaching university students interpersonal and communication
skills to not inspiring a commitment to continuous learning ... For
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