type="main" <p>This paper discusses the nature of the 10 example paragraph entries at the end of Pacioli's bookkeeping treatise. It concludes that these are entries from fledgling banking operations involving one account holder and one borrower who, along with two others, has financial transactions...</p>

This paper presents an analysis of the IT skills reported by UK students on entry to their first year of study for an accounting degree together with preliminary analysis on their perceived changes in IT skills and usage over their first year of study. Despite the folklore that 'our juniors' are...

This paper explores and analyses the views of, and effects on, students of a project that integrated the development of employability skills within the small group classes of two compulsory courses in the first year of an accounting degree at a UK university. The project aimed to build, deliver...

This paper describes the background, design process, and implementation problems encountered during the first year of use of an asynchronous internet-based on-line assessment system on an introductory accounting course. The on-line assessment system was both summative and formative in nature and...