Prior research that attempts to empirically correlate research activity and effective teaching generates conflicting results. These contradictory findings contribute to the scrutiny that currently threatens to undermine accounting education and to impact funds currently directed toward the...

Over the past two decades there has been a concerted effort to move accounting education from a knowledge-oriented system to a process-oriented approach. Active learning is an internationally recognized cornerstone of this strategy. A new technology offers opportunities for professors to promote...

Accounting educators continue to look for efficient ways to introduce personal competencies into the curriculum. Prior literature contains numerous suggestions on how faculty can implement a single personal competency, such as written communication. This chapter describes our strategy for...

Accounting doctoral programs have been ranked in the past based on publishing productivity and graduate placement. This chapter provides descriptions of accounting doctoral programs on a wider range of characteristics. These results may be particularly useful to doctoral applicants as well as to...

This chapter compares student performance and course satisfaction in two large sections of an introductory financial accounting course. The students in one section used an online homework management system (OHMS), whereas the students in the other section used traditional homework methods. While...