Reforming accounting as a STEM discipline

Ken H. Guo

Journal of Accounting Education, 2025, vol. 71, issue C

Abstract: There has been some effort to push the recognition of accounting as a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) field through congressional legislation and the designation of academic accounting programs by individual schools. In this paper I argue that such legitimization is insufficient and that the accounting profession can best accomplish its stemmatization goal by reforming accounting as an information systems discipline. Such reform would necessitate a meaningful change of the accounting focus from rules to information systems design, implementation, and data analytics. I use four examples to illustrate how such reform might be carried out and discuss potential pitfalls and obstacles.

Keywords: Accounting; STEM; Reform; Information systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jaccedu.2025.100968

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