This feature section contains 6 brief articles on various components of the business education program. (JS)

Because of increasing shortages of accountants, the profession is opening up rapidly to blacks and women. Many more blacks would enter accounting if college counselors informed them of the available opportunities. (BH)

Higher Education has outgrown traditional fund accounting and needs to shift emphasis to managerial accounting principles. (Editor)

Discusses the use of educational objectives in evaluating student progress on the accounting practice set. (JS)

Discusses the classroom components of students, learning activities, and program content in relation to the increased demand for more extensive and detailed analysis of financial information, the increased use of automated data processing equipment, and resulting job shifts and the upgrading of skills. (CH)

States that the challenge of being a responsible accounting instructor is in selecting an accounting text that effectively reflects the procedures presently being practiced by today's accountants, which will elevate students to entry-level competence. Also states that an accounting text should integrate both the "how" and the "why" of concepts.…

With a unique organizational structure, the Rockefeller University's need for administrative information systems is different from most institutions of higher education. The financial reporting needs of the many different laboratories led the university to purchase a computer-based accounting system. (MLW)

Lists reports, monographs, and journal articles of the last five years that deal with internal auditing at various governmental levels, including the growth of the internal audit, the development of guidelines, current practices, types of audit, and current issues. (FM)

Reports on an international study of 35 universities and technical colleges conducted to assess hands-on experiences in computer programing for accounting majors. Attention is given to program objectives, subjects offered, physical aspects of program, and faculty and course considerations; and recommendations are made for a one-semester course.…

The curriculum revision of accounting and office practice programs at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology through infusion of data processing skills is described. Discusses the first-year core curriculum, and second- and third-year curricula. (CT)

The content of the basic course differs depending on whether the school offers an information systems curriculum or multiple systems courses or it offers only one course or the student chooses to take only one course. (Author/IRT)

First of a series of articles on techniques submitted by school business officials. (MLF)

Describes the use of the charge-back system to foster better financial decision making, organizational efficiency, and waste prevention. Discusses an example of the charge-back system in reducing copying costs, including charging criteria. (GR)