Academic accounting units at universities possess varying degrees of social esteem. The maintenance of relative position requires continuous efforts of reproduction. Using Bourdieu's theoretical analysis, this paper hypothesizes institutional positioning as a function of cultural, economic and...

The ninth annual meeting in a series entitled Colloquium on Change in Accounting Education recently concluded. My attendance at this meeting prompted a broader reflection on the scholarship of teaching and the purpose of academic conferences.

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...