Accounting Education Books

New and Published Books

1. Liberalising the Accounting Curriculum in University Education

   Edited by Alan Sangster, Richard M.S. Wilson

   This book presents the views of accounting educators, accounting education policy-makers, and accounting practitioners from across the world on the challenging topic of liberalising the accounting curriculum within university education. Accounting is a relatively new subject within universities and...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
2. Audit Education

   Edited by Karen Van Peursem, Elizabeth Monk, Richard M.S. Wilson, Ralph Adler

   Series: Special issue books from 'Accounting Education: an international journal'

   Audit professionals are valued members of society and are expected to be both skilled and ethical in their decision-making. The role of the auditor extends far beyond that of counting beans by demanding a social and political awareness, a technical knowledge, ethical principles and relationship...

   Published January 29th 2012 by Routledge
3. Personal Transferable Skills in Accounting Education

   Edited by Kim Watty, Beverley Jackling, Richard M.S. Wilson

   Series: Special issue books from 'Accounting Education: an international journal'

   The development of generic skills (often referred to as ‘soft skills’) in accounting education has been a focus of discussion and debate for several decades. During this time employers and professional bodies have urged accounting educators to consider and develop curricula which provide for the...

   Published January 26th 2012 by Routledge
4. Teaching IFRS

   Edited by Richard M.S. Wilson, Ralph Adler

   Series: Special issue books from 'Accounting Education: an international journal'

   The increasing pace of global conformance towards the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) highlights the need for accounting students as well as accounting practitioners to be conversant with IFRS. Teaching IFRS offers expert descriptions of, and insights into, the IFRS...

   Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Interface of Accounting Education and Professional Training

   Edited by Elaine Evans, Roger Juchau, Richard M.S. Wilson

   Series: Special issue books from 'Accounting Education: an international journal'

   Over many decades the global development of professional accounting education programmes has been undertaken by higher education institutions, professional accounting bodies, and employers. These institutions have sometimes co-operated and sometimes been in conflict over the education and/or...

   Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge
6. Management Accounting Research in Practice

   Lessons Learned from an Interventionist Approach

   By Petri Suomala, Jouni Lyly-Yrjänäinen

   Series: Routledge Studies in Accounting

   Many scholars have claimed that management accounting research has lost its pragmatic relevancy and interventionist research has been proposed as one way to produce theories with increased practical implications. In interventionist research, active participation in the field is regarded as an asset...

   Published November 20th 2011 by Routledge