TY - JOUR
T1 - Liberalising the accounting curriculum
AU - Sangster, Alan
PY - 2010/8/1
Y1 - 2010/8/1
N2 - Knowledge is a defining characteristic of professions but, given the ever-increasing knowledge base, curricula in professional disciplines are becoming overcrowded (Paisey and Paisey, 2007). This is not a recent phenomenon: the accounting curriculum has long been considered overcrowded as educators follow the demands of the profession for more coverage of ‘χ’, whatever ‘χ’ happens to be at any particular point in time. In the UK, 25 years ago it was the teaching of computer programming. Today, it is accounting standards...
AB - Knowledge is a defining characteristic of professions but, given the ever-increasing knowledge base, curricula in professional disciplines are becoming overcrowded (Paisey and Paisey, 2007). This is not a recent phenomenon: the accounting curriculum has long been considered overcrowded as educators follow the demands of the profession for more coverage of ‘χ’, whatever ‘χ’ happens to be at any particular point in time. In the UK, 25 years ago it was the teaching of computer programming. Today, it is accounting standards...
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79951911998&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09639284.2010.501674
DO - 10.1080/09639284.2010.501674
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:79951911998
SN - 0963-9284
VL - 19
SP - 323
EP - 327
JO - Accounting Education
JF - Accounting Education
IS - 4
ER -