FRA: Teaching Financial Accounting with a Goal‐Based Scenario

David A. Foster

Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management, 1995, vol. 4, issue 3, 173-189

Abstract: This paper reports on the development of FRA (Financial Report Analyst), an intelligent, multimedia educational software system which is designed to teach financial statement analysis to business students and professional trainees. FRA is based on a new kind of teaching architecture called a goal‐based scenario, a “learning by doing” environment in which the student acts in a realistic role and obtains helpful coaching while performing assigned tasks. In FRA, the student plays the role of a lending analyst at a bank who must make important commercial lending decisions. Usability tests of FRA have been conducted with students in the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. The paper discusses: theoretical advantages of goal‐based scenarios; the architecture of FRA; and ongoing and future research.

Date: 1995
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