The Routledge Companion to Accounting Education (Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting)

Many enquiries into the state of accounting education/training, undertaken in several countries over the past 40 years, have warned that it must change if it is to be made more relevant to students, to the accounting profession, and to stakeholders in the wider community. This book’s over-riding aim is to provide a comprehensive and authoritative source of reference which defines the domain of accounting education/training, and which provides a critical overview of the state of this domain (including emerging and cutting edge issues) as a foundation for facilitating improved accounting education/training scholarship and research in order to enhance the educational base of accounting practice. __The Routledge Companion to Accounting Education__ highlights the key drivers of change - whether in the field of practice on the one hand (e.g. increased regulation, globalisation, risk, and complexity), or from developments in the academy on the other (e.g. pressures to embed technology within the classroom, or to meet accreditation criteria) on the other. Thirty chapters, written by leading scholars from around the world, are grouped into seven themed sections which focus on different facets of their respective themes – including student, curriculum, pedagogic, and assessment considerations. "Accounting education has come under fire over the years from various quarters: including the accounting profession, the business world and students. Calls for accounting to be taught in different ways have stemmed from changes in practice, increasing uncertainty, the recognition of risk, more complexity, new regulations, interdisciplinary practices and technological change. Whilst the subject has been researched comprehensively in journal articles, until now there has not been a comprehensive publication which addresses the whole field. This prestige reference work defines the domain of accounting education and provides a critical overview of the state of this domain. The Routledge Companion to Accounting Education is comprehensive, up to date, and a definitive work of reference which can be cited as an authoritative source on this domain"-- Provided by publisher