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Drawing on his experience as an accounting professor serving as dean of a business school, Douglas A.Shackelford gives advice for accounting academics interested in academic leadership positions. He observes that accounting professors have a competitive advantage in academic administration due to being naturally comfortable with financial information and budgeting.
The Covid-19 pandemic has shaped and impacted a new class of US accounting graduates in significant and lasting ways. The authors - three accounting professors and an administrator - contemplate the challenges of the pandemic for accounting students, and how the experience enhanced students' personal traits and skills.
Despite the variety of software tools available nowadays, being able to use Excel is still a critical, foundational skill for accounting and finance graduates. The authors present results from their survey asking accounting and business professionals to indicate the relative importance of 24 different Excel skills. They discuss the implications for accounting educators and highlight resources for academics integrating Excel into the accounting curriculum.
The authors propose a new, revolutionized curriculum for accounting students, focusing on using data analytics and incorporating the use of real-world data. Accountants should be expected to use their judgement and business acumen to provide context as well as technological adeptness to analyze data.
Advice for accounting academics on publishing research in practitioner accounting journals, including finding relevant topics and using a suitable writing style. The authors provide examples of five potential types of articles for practitioner accounting journals: small literature reviews, empirical papers, thought pieces, skills papers and current topic updates.
Academics from California State University share their experiences in introducing cryptocurrencies to undergraduate financial accounting students. Students were given a cryptocurrency assignment to complete, followed and by a survey assessing how useful they found the assignment.
Insights on transitioning from accounting professional practice to an academic career. The author suggests ten steps to follow in order to make the leap to the education sector.
Accounting academic Carolyn M.Callahan discusses diversity within accounting education and considers the factors behind her success as a Professor of Accountancy. She argues that now is the time to push the accounting research frontier forward.
Accounting academic D.Scott Showalter gives advice on the similarities and differences between working in academia and practice. He describes how he prepared for a second career as an academic, what he learned during his important first academic teaching year and how he moved forward to expand his career in the education sector.
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