South African accounting education : stocktake / Jaco Fouché, NIco van der Merwe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fouché, Jaco, author.

Van der Merwe, Nico, 1942- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Accounting--Study and teaching.

Accounting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 243 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Sun Press, [2020]

Summary:

This book is intended to take stock of the current state of accounting education with a specific emphasis on the South African situation. It provides a critical overview of the current published research and identified gaps. Through this, it aims to equip accounting academics with information and tools to motivate them to research the field of accounting education to improve teaching and learning. It also aids in the identification of suitable research topics in this regard and highlights potential pitfalls in researching accounting education. The book, therefore, focuses on accounting educators as specialists in their respective disciplines. Different authors with a keen interest in a specific area relating to accounting education research wrote each chapter in this book. It forms a planned collective work, assembled by appropriately qualified and experienced scholars in the accounting education field which generates a new conceptual synthesis that advances scholarship of accounting education research, since no such synthesis currently exists for accounting education research in South Africa.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgement

Contributing Authors

Preface - The accounting education research conundrum

Background and motivation

Purpose of the book

Methodology

Content

Contribution

Chapter 1 - The state of accounting education

1. Introduction

2. General criticism of traditional accounting edication practices

2.1 The ever-changing corporate world

2.2 The lack of skills on the part of learners

2.3 Resistance to change by accounting educators

2.4 Requirement for continuous professional development

2.5 New generation of learners

3. Structure of accounting education in the South African context

4. Mayor changesin the accounting education environment

5. The role of professional bodies in South Africa

6. Professional bodies and the universities

7. Professional bodies, universities and transformation

8. Conclusion

9. Areas for further research

References

Chapter 2 - Teaching methodology in accounting education

2. The theory of teaching methodology

2.1 Lecturer-centred approach to teaching

2.2 Student-centred teaching methodologies

3. Teaching methodologies applicable in accounting education

3.1 Interactive and inquirey-based learning

3.2 Cooperative and group learning

3.3 Problem-based learning

3.4 Experience-based methods

3.5 Project-based learning

3.6 Methods using different teaching aids (blended learning)

4. Factors to consider and recommendation

5. Conclusion

6. Areas for future research

Chapter 3 - Teaching and learning styles

2. Accounting students and their learing styles

2.1 Learning styles

2.2 Learning theories and tools to identify learning styles

3. Accounting lectures and their teaching methodologies

3.1 Teaching methodology

3.2 Teaching Philosophy.

3.3 Teaching strategies

4. Matching lectures' teaching strategies to accounting students' learning styles

5. Areas for further research

Chapter 4 - Interventions in accounting education

1.1 The meaning of 'intervention'

1.2 What constitutes an educational intervention

2. Types of interventions

2.1 Case study

2.2 Simulation

2.3 Games

2.4 Role-play

2.5 Field experience

2.6 Group work

3. Interventions used in South Africa

3.1 Taxation

3.2 Auditing

3.3 Financial accounting

3.4 Management accounting and financial management

3.5 Intergrated or capstone interventions

4. Conclusion

Chapter 5 - Assessment in accounting education

2. Quality of Assessment

3. The role of assessment in learning

4. Assessment methods in accounting education

4.1 Group work

4.2 Case studies

4.3 Computer-aided assessment

4.4 Continuous assessment

4.5 Written assessment

4.6 Open-book assessment

4.7 Other assessment methods

5. Alignment within accounting programmes

6. Conclusion

7. Areas for further research

Chapter 6 - Publishing in accounting education

2. Available journals

3. How to find the most suitable journal for your research

4. What to publish

5. Hints on how to get published

Chapter 7 - Research opportunities for collaboration with industry and professional bodies

2. University-industry collaboration

3. University-professional body collaboration

4. Research opportunities provided by industry

4.1 Literature review

5. Research opportunities provided by professional bodies

5.1 Literature review.

5.2 Institute of Commercial Forensic Practitioners (ICFP)

5.3 South African institute of chartered accountants (SAICA)

5.4 South African institute of professional accountants (SAIPA)

Chapter 8 - Community engagement and accounting education research

2. Literature review

3. Methodology

3.1 Intervention 1: Strategic analysis

3.2 Intervention 2: Business simulation

3.3 Intervention 3: Personal finance role-play

4. Findings

4.1 Intervention 1: Strategic Analysis

4.2 Intervention 2: Business simulation

4.3 Intervention 3: Personal finance role-play

6. Areas for further research

Chapter 9 - Information technology in accounting education

2.1 Maslow's hierarchy

2.2 Stages of development in accounting professionals

2.3 Limitations on the use of it for developing professionals

2.4 IT at university

2.5 SAICA competencies

2.6 Employers on the use of IT

3. Research design and methodology

5. Looking towards the future

6. Conclusions, limitations and recommendations

6.1 Conclusion

6.2 Limitations

6.3 Recommendations

Chapter 10 - Accepting the challenge

2. The role players: Students, lecturer, university, professional bodies and the profession

2.1 The student

2.2 The lecturer

2.3 The university

2.4 Professional bodies

2.5 The profession

3. Subject content

4. Teaching Methodology

5. The role of the lecturer within the university and community

6. Conclusion and final thoughts

REFERENCES.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-928480-47-0