Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider how ethics is currently taught to trainee auditors and to evaluate whether some ethical instruction techniques can be assessed as more effective than others. Design/methodology/approach – Two separate cohorts of auditing students (262)...

Our main objective is to determine as a primary hypothesis, whether Romanian education is circumscribed to international tendencies in general, and European trends in particular. Education was considered mainly in terms of the types of knowledge which have to be transferred, and subsidiary seen...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the nature and development of blended learning and the emerging notion of learning communities, with particular reference to management and business education. Design/methodology/approach – In total, four specific models are explored to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to further the debate on relevance in business education by sharing one business school's experiences. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative survey was carried out, reviewed by two independent collaborators. Conclusions drawn from interviews with...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore and evaluate entrepreneurship education in public universities in Ethiopia. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on the data obtained from 16 public universities in the country. The undergraduate curriculum of each university was...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the process of renewal undertaken in a large undergraduate financial reporting subject. Design/methodology/approach – The approach taken in the subject is one in which student engagement is critical. Selected quantitative and qualitative...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibility of using a movie to teach auditing students about internal controls. Design/methodology/approach – A ten-point questionnaire and Chi-square test are used to explore self-perceived cognizance of control awareness, design,...

This paper describes an assignment where students evaluate a current industry using Adam Smith's arguments against monopoly power. Using Smith's arguments, students write a paper describing whether they believe a current industry, such as the US cellular phone carrier industry, suffers from the...

Purpose – This article aims to provide an exposition of evolutionary game theory which can be used for pedagogical purposes. Design/methodology/approach – The exposition is presented as a mathematical model in order to cover the formal underpinnings of evolutionary game theory. The paper...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider how ethics is currently taught to trainee auditors and to evaluate whether some ethical instruction techniques can be assessed as more effective than others. Design/methodology/approach – Two separate cohorts of auditing students (262)...