Integrating Liberal Learning into the Accounting Curriculum

Catherine A. Usoff

Chapter 4 in Shaping the Future of Business Education, 2013, pp 61-71 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In a field that may seem as far away from liberal arts as possible, accounting educators are using techniques and content from the arts and sciences to prepare students to succeed in a complex, global, technology-based business environment. The accounting profession, for the most part, has changed dramatically in the past 30 years. Where the focus may have been on recording transactions on green columnar ledger paper, almost all accounting is done today in information systems. The skills needed by students entering the profession are more sophisticated than they once were. There is still a requirement to understand the basic accounting model (assets equal liabilities plus equities), but accounting students need to know and understand so much more.

Keywords: Critical Thinking; Accounting Faculty; Liberal Learn; Critical Thinking Skill; Accounting Student (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137033383_5

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