There is a need to introduce corrective measures for accountants to improve their performance. Due to technical incompetence of accounting graduates, most industries are reluctant to hire fresh accounting graduates, because the anticipated practical knowledge is apparently missing and performance does not correlate with the degree they possess.…

The quest for undergraduate Accounting students to obtain a professional certification early is being propagandised to boost chances upon graduation in securing well-paying job and enhancing a career path in Accounting. The study provides evidence on the idiosyncratic differences among students who are undergoing a professional programme while…

Current accounting graduates will be engaged in a constantly changing and visual world, and educators can help them by harnessing the power of visual metaphors. This article illustrates how hand-drawings by student groups can reveal negative perceptions of accountants as a potential career choice for new students, making such perceptions something…

The ever-increasing need for forensic accounting services in today's business environment has highlighted the need for accounting educators to consider integrating forensic accounting into their curriculum. This research has provided evidence about the current forensic accounting curricula, handbooks and syllabi and explored the pedagogical…

Information Communication and Technology has made a lot of investments to the rapid transformation of modern society. The goal of the study was to establish a highly customized student information and accounting system in Indonesia to promote the enrolment and accounting phase and to meet the needs of all clients and employees in the provision of…

To address the problem presented in this research, the purpose of this embedded mixed methods case study was to explore accounting students' perceptions about the efficacy of using authentic assessment to determine how and to what extent experiential learning in the curriculum contributes to their preparation for certification and work in the…

The last three decades have seen significant educational reform, which have influenced the transformation of assessment practices in higher education institutions (HEIs). In addition, various societal and global changes have required that higher education create adaptive graduates who acquire and develop higher-order skills which include…

Many successful non-financial managers aspire to contribute at the larger table of management decision making. To do so necessitates broadening their skills to include financial acumen. For non-financial managers, learning new financial constructs can be daunting, and knowing when to use which tool is challenging. We describe a…

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the impact of informal learning contextual factors in facilitation workplace learning in the auditing profession. Design/methodology/approach: Multiple linear regression analysis was used to look at the relationship between four aspects of informal learning and the impact on workplace learning using data from a…

This research aimed at examining the effectiveness of collaboration of Jigsaw and problem-based learning (PBL) model in developing students' critical thinking skills. This research exerted an experimental design using pre-experimental one group pretest-posttest. The implementation of such model collaboration was carried out in SMK Batik 1…

The purpose of this study was to evaluate a model for considering general and specific elements of student experience in a gateway course in undergraduate Financial Accounting in a large university on the East Coast, USA. Specifically, the study evaluated a bifactor analytic strategy including a general factor of student classroom experience,…

The purpose of this research was to define elements that would allow stakeholders in public universities to have a better understanding of the value created in that university and the risks incurred. There are many points of information for stakeholders and universities, but the information is not well unified in one document. Financial…

The author examines the effect of class format on student performance, time spent on homework, and instructor evaluations. The findings are unique and add to a limited body of literature. Each group comprised similar undergraduate students who received the same number of instructional hours, same assignments and were taught by the same instructor.…

The global digital revolution has irrevocably transformed societies and industries. The accounting profession is predicted to experience a significant change in the future, due to technological developments. Practices will be automated and related positions obsolete, thus accounting graduates need to be educated for new and different tasks and…

This study explores authorial identity and plagiarism among Chinese students studying accounting and business in China by drawing on Pittam et al.'s [2009, "Student Beliefs and Attitudes about Authorial Identity in Academic Writing." "Studies in Higher Education" 34 (2): 153-170] Student Authorship Questionnaire (SAQ). Chinese…