As administrators are pressured to increase retention rates in accounting departments, and higher education in general, a deadly symbiosis is occurring. Most students and parents only wish high grades, so year after year many educators engage in unethical grade inflation and course work...

Researchers and numerous groups stress the importance of incorporating communication skills development into accounting curricula. Although a number of formal and informal techniques are available to instructors to incorporate writing skills into the classroom, many students have both oral and...

Educational novels and student role-playing can be used in some accounting classes to present technical information in a way which facilitates learning and infuses student enthusiasm. The purpose of this Note is to briefly relate the following: (1) the authors' experiences in using educational...