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The Effect of Using Analogies to Integrate System Dynamics Concepts in Accounting Education
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Luís Baptista; Isabel Lourenço; Eduardo Simões – Accounting Education, 2024
This paper analyses whether using analogies to integrate knowledge from other scientific areas increases the level of accounting knowledge. We defined two sets of analogies, one between the physical states of water and the economic and cash flows, and another between the concepts of stock, flow and feedback that were taken from the System Dynamics…
Descriptors: Accounting, Professional Education, Systems Approach, Teaching Methods
Integrating Enterprise Resource Planning (SAP) in the Accounting Curriculum: A Systematic Literature Review and Case Study
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Blount, Yvette; Abedin, Babak; Vatanasakdakul, Savanid; Erfani, Seyedezahra – Accounting Education, 2016
This study investigates how an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software package SAP was integrated into the curriculum of an accounting information systems (AIS) course in an Australian university. Furthermore, the paper provides a systematic literature review of articles published between 1990 and 2013 to understand how ERP systems were…
Descriptors: Accounting, Curriculum Development, Integrated Curriculum, Literature Reviews
A Decision Support Model and Tool to Assist Financial Decision-Making in Universities
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Bhayat, Imtiaz; Manuguerra, Maurizio; Baldock, Clive – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2015
In this paper, a model and tool is proposed to assist universities and other mission-based organisations to ascertain systematically the optimal portfolio of projects, in any year, meeting the organisations risk tolerances and available funds. The model and tool presented build on previous work on university operations and decision support systems…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Models, Systems Approach
Constructing a Sustainable Learning Organization: Marks and Spencer's First Plan A Learning Store
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Wilson, John P.; Beard, Colin – Learning Organization, 2014
Purpose: Marks and Spencer's Plan A environmental strategy is an ambitious one which addresses economic, social and environmental considerations. As part of this process it recently used a sustainable learning store strategy to develop, capture and disseminate learning before, during and after construction so that learning could be transferred to…
Descriptors: Retailing, Sustainability, Workplace Learning, Futures (of Society)
A Theory of Complex Adaptive Inquiring Organizations: Application to Continuous Assurance of Corporate Financial Information
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Kuhn, John R., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Drawing upon the theories of complexity and complex adaptive systems and the Singerian Inquiring System from C. West Churchman's seminal work "The Design of Inquiring Systems" the dissertation herein develops a systems design theory for continuous auditing systems. The dissertation consists of discussion of the two foundational theories,…
Descriptors: Air Transportation, Corporations, Systems Approach, Audits (Verification)
Flexible Work Options within the Organisational System
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Albion, Majella J.; Chee, Munli – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2006
The availability of flexible work options provides an opportunity for individuals to shape their careers in order to optimise their work and life goals. This study takes a systems theory approach to examine how the use of flexible work options influences relationships and interactions in the workplace. The "Flexible Work Options…
Descriptors: Employees, Child Rearing, Systems Approach, Foreign Countries