1st Edition

Accounting Education Research Prize-winning Contributions

Edited By Richard M.S. Wilson Copyright 2014
552 Pages
by Routledge

552 Pages
by Routledge

552 Pages
by Routledge

An annual prize is awarded for the best paper appearing in Accounting Education: an international journal, and this book contains the prize-winning papers for every year from 1992 to 2012. The journal’s primary mission since the first issue was published in March 1992 has been to enhance the educational base of accounting practice, and all the papers in this book relate to that mission. These... Read more

Introduction Richard M.S. Wilson

1. 1992: Purposes and Paradigms of Management Accounting: Beyond Economic Reductionism Martin Kelly and Michael Pratt

2. 1993: From Fresher to Finalist: A Three Year Analysis of Student Performance on an Accounting Degree Programme Susan Bartlett, Michael J. Peel and Maurice Pendlebury

3. 1994: Teaching Ethics in Accounting and the Ethics of Accounting Teaching: Educating for Immorality and a Possible Case for Social and Environmental Accounting Education Rob Gray, Jan Bebbington and Ken McPhail

4. 1995: Competence is Not Enough: Meta-competence and Accounting Education Reva Berman Brown and Sean McCartney

5. 1996: Fostering Deep and Active Learning through Assessment Len Hand, Peter Sanderson and Mike O’Neil

6. 1997: Improving the Quality of Accounting Students’ Learning through Action-oriented Learning Tasks Ralph W. Adler and Markus J. Milne

7. 1998: Exporting Accounting Education to East Africa – Squaring the Circle Patrick J. Devlin and Alan D. Godfrey

8. 1999: The Quality of Learning in Accounting Education: The Impact of Approaches to Learning on Academic Performance Peter Booth, Peter Luckett and Rosina Mladenovic

9. 2000: Identifying and Overcoming Obstacles to Learner-centred Approaches in Tertiary Accounting Education: A Field Study and Survey of Accounting Educators’ Perceptions Ralph W. Adler, Markus J. Milne and Carolyn P. Stringer

10. 2001: A Study of Students’ Perceptions of the Usefulness of Case Studies for the Development of Finance and Accounting-related Skills and Knowledge Sidney Weil, Peter Oyelere, Joanna Yeoh and Colin Firer

11. 2002: Accountability of Accounting Educators and the Rhythm of the University: Resistance Strategies for Postmodern Blues Russell Craig and Joel Amernic

12. 2003: A Comparison of the Dominant Meta-programme Patterns in Accounting Undergraduate Students and Accounting Lecturers at a U.K. Business School Nigel Brown

13. 2004: Encouraging a Deep Approach to Learning through Curriculum Design Linda English, Peter Luckett and Rosina Mladenovic

14. 2005: Perceptions of the Learning Context and Learning Approaches: Implications for Quality Learning Outcomes in Accounting Beverley Jackling

15. 2006: Using Dimensions of Moral Intensity to Predict Ethical Decision-making in Accounting Deborah L. Leitsch

16. 2006: Accounting Textbooks: Exploring the Production of a Cultural and Political Artifact John Ferguson, David Collison, David Power and Lorna Stevenson

17. 2007: Concept Mapping in a Financial Accounting Theory Course Jon Simon

18. 2008: Introducing a Learning Portfolio in an Undergraduate Financial Accounting Course Grant Samkin and Graham Francis

19. 2009: Moral Intensity and Ethical Decision-making: An Empirical Examination of Undergraduate Accounting and Business Students Breda Sweeney and Fiona Costello

20. 2010: The Role of Cultural Factors in the Learning Style Preferences of Accounting Students: A Comparative Study between Japan and Australia Satoshi Sugahara and Gregory Boland

21. 2011: Understanding Student Plagiarism: An Empirical Study in Accounting Education Xin Guo

22. 2012: Expanding the Horizons of Accounting Education: Incorporating Social and Critical Perspectives Gordon Boyce, Susan Greer, Bill Blair and Cindy Davids

Biography

Professor Richard M. S. Wilson has devoted his career to boundary-spanning (e.g. as practitioner and professor, across disciplines, and in different locations). For 40 years he has been active nationally and internationally in educational policy-making on the interface of accounting education and training; has worked in more than a dozen countries; has published widely; is the founding editor (and currently Editor-in-Chief) of Accounting Education: an international journal; holds two Lifetime Achievement Awards (one specifically for his work in the field of accounting education); and is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences.