Purpose – This paper aims to share experiences in teaching a Financial Accounting Principles course using a hybrid problem based learning (PBL) method. The three specific objectives of this paper are to document how the PBL project for this course was developed and managed in class, to compare...

With the recent growing development of open education resources has opened up new avenues for education, learning and research. The open educational resources are offered universally with or without fee in the shape of courses or educational content regardless of credit hours or award of any...

Interest in this topic followed examination of new data discussing several antecedent proposals for establishing an international academic accounting association in the period 1966–1983, culminating in the 1984 formation of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research...

Accounting knowledge evolves over time. This study uses textual analysis and word frequencies to demonstrate how Certified Public Accounting (CPA) Examination competencies have evolved over time. This analysis applies a spreadsheet-based process based on word frequencies to compare CPA...

We analyze the interrelation between personality traits and German business students' propensity to select financial accounting, management accounting, tax accounting, or corporate finance as their major field of study, to seek a first job in one of these areas as well as their intention to...

The quality of online accounting education relative to more traditional classroom-based accounting education remains a contentious and poorly understood topic. The research presented here compares average CPA exam scores of first-time candidates who have earned accounting degrees from online...

The aim of the article is to evaluate the level of basic knowledge of accounting issues of students of the School of Business Administration in Karviná (SBA) in the Czech Republic and verify the existence of dependence of their knowledge on gender, secondary education, aspects of their...

This study examines the instructional preferences exhibited by students in an Australian and a Zimbabwean setting, and how cultural conditioning can reflect in the instructional design choice. Using graphical and textual presentations of an experiment with three instructional designs and 217...

Prior research and practitioner-academic bodies (Lawson et al. 2014, 2015; Pathways Commission 2012) have called for the development of integrated accounting curricula to better prepare students for successful long-term careers. This paper recognizes accounting program leaders as important agents in...

Currently, accounting higher education is plagued with many problems that, as Albrecht and Sack (2000, p. 1) warn, “will lead to the demise of accounting education”. Traditionally, the discussion on how to solve these problems has taken place between two extreme educational paradigms – the...