Revitalizing Accounting Education: A Highly Applied Liberal Arts Approach

Timothy Fogarty

Accounting Education, 2010, vol. 19, issue 4, 403-419

Abstract: 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 essential skills that are believed to be produced by the liberal arts. These could be re-embedded in an accounting education that featured the classic professionalism model as a conceptual centerpiece. Consequences of such an approach are extended and limitations are recognized.

Keywords: Liberal arts; skills-based education; curricula; professionalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1080/09639284.2010.501629

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