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The article discusses the importance of data analytics skills in the field of accounting and the adoption of data analytics in accounting curricula. It highlights the textbook 'Data Analytics for Accounting' (2023) as a valuable resource for teaching data analytics to accountants. The textbook covers various topics such as data scrubbing, data analysis, statistical analysis, and data visualization, as well as software platforms like Excel, Tableau, and Power BI. (This book is held in the ICAEW Library collection and can be borrowed by ICAEW members and ACA students).

Using data from 14 countries and 186 institutions, the authors compare ChatGPT and student performance for 28,085 questions from accounting assessments and textbook test banks. As of January 2023, ChatGPT provided correct answers for 56.5% of questions and partially correct answers for an additional 9.4% of questions. The article provides evidence of how ChatGPT performs on different question types, accounting topics, class levels, open/closed assessments, and test bank questions. The implications for accounting education and research are also discussed.

Accounting professors Chevonne Alston and Di Wu stress the importance of grounding lessons on ethical principles in actual cases. They outline some practical strategies which educators can use to cultivate ethical reasoning skills in accounting and finance students. Real-world case studies and 'accounting and finance in the news' articles can be used to bring ethics to life.

This article introduces the Tidyverse package of the programming language R for data analytics (DA). This approach can greatly benefit undergraduate or graduate accounting students without any coding knowledge. A teaching case suitable for auditing or accounting analytics classes is presented for accounting educators to adopt in their courses. Evidence suggests that this approach is effective in teaching R for DA and in introducing advanced DA tools to the next generation of accountants.

Assistant Professor Li Qu describes how she added data analytics to her cost accounting course curriculum. She explains the benefits of adding data analytics into cost accounting teaching, and shares feedback from her students on their experience of learning data analytics this way.

ChatGPT and AI can enrich the classroom experience for professors and students. The authors, who are US accounting academics, make recommendations for ways accounting educators can use ChatGPT to prepare/modify lecture content or develop customized assignments and resources for students. They also discuss ways ChatGPT and AI can be used to make routine research related tasks more efficient.

Peer-reviewed journal publishing research on key aspects of accounting education and training.

Quarterly journal from the American Accounting Association, publicising the Association's education-related events and programmes.

Quarterly journal from the American Accounting Association, publishing research and commentary on various aspects of accounting. Includes reviews of textbooks and other books of interest for accounting scholars and practitioners.

Quarterly journal from the American Accounting Association, publishing articles on various aspects of accounting education.