Purpose: This viewpoint aims to discuss the transformative role, the current challenges and the outlook of sustainability accounting education (SAE). Design/methodology/approach: Higher education institutions (HEIs) have a "social responsibility" to foster competencies and skills for sustainable development within their student bodies…

The accounting cycle is an important yet difficult topic for introductory financial accounting students to learn. This problem motivates the authors to develop four innovative online tutorials with a coherent storyline to enable students to learn the accounting cycle and to supplement in-class learning. The survey results suggest that the…

The aim of the paper is to investigate the benefits and drawbacks resulting from the implementation of e-learning in accounting modules among educators. The primary source of data was a questionnaire conducted among 79 accounting lecturers, employed by the leading Polish economic universities. The results of the survey have shown that e-learning…

Purpose: This study aims to provide a qualitative framework for satisfactory sustainable education for international accounting students using a meta-synthetic approach. Design/methodology/approach: To determine the components and indicators of satisfactory sustainable education for international accounting students, a meta-synthesis allows for…

New technologies shape the market by requiring hybrid skills for accounting professionals. Serious games may help to prepare students by cultivating these skills. However, an improper game application may disrupt students' skill development. A guide is necessary to avoid a disruptive scenario by making serious games a proper teaching methodology…

Purpose: Private universities in Ghana are perceived to offer low-quality education, even though the few studies conducted have produced contradictory findings. In addition to the paucity of research in this area, the debate has not largely reflected the views of alumni. This study aims to present the perspectives of a major stakeholder group in…

What is accounting today? Are conventional definitions of accounting adequate for the early 2020s? What definition do you teach? Accounting is positioned in this study as "not" a mere neutral, benign, technical practice. It is also a social practice and moral practice as understood based on the important research of accounting scholars…

This teaching brief presents a capstone project designed to provide students with a contextual understanding of introductory management accounting theories through hands-on, experiential learning. It also exposes them to cross-disciplinary roles from operations management. Using this capstone approach, students quickly learn to prepare financial…

While the COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted the higher education sector, it also provided opportunities for accounting academics to rethink their assessment strategy. This paper adds to the limited literature which has reported on how accounting academics responded to such an opportunity. Drawing on Freire's dialogical education theory as…

Supporting students to demonstrate critical thinking skills while studying accounting is challenging. Researching how to do this is made more difficult because '[t]here is no single, agreed-upon definition of critical thinking within accounting education … ' [Wolcott, S. K., & Sargent, M. J. 2021. Critical thinking in accounting education:…

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…

The purpose of this paper is to present an automated approach for the marking and grading of the commonly used accounting practice assignment for first year financial accounting. The automated system has potential benefits for the reduction in time and cost to the running of the course as well as providing students with an objective standardised…

Purpose: This study aimed to empirically assess the influence of commuting distance (duration) on accounting students' academic performance at one of the business colleges in Kuwait. Design/Methodology/Approach: A linear regression model (OLS), correlation and t-test analysis using a sample of 237 accounting students enrolled before and during the…

Research on formative assessment in accounting education examines the learning outcomes stemming from e-assessment or formative assessment within a stand-alone subject, but few studies examine the benefits and implications of continuous formative assessment or the perceptions of students who undertake formative assessment. The findings of…

Teaching accounting ethics at a faith-based university requires a balance between professional guidance and the special mission of these universities. This paper reimagines the objectives on an undergraduate accounting ethics course and uses them along with insights from integration literature to develop a project of faith integration. The project…