This paper documents and evaluates an intervention designed to integrate the learning of selected generic skills, particularly analytical thinking and written communication skills, with the learning of accounting content. The method used was to scaffold practice in analytical thinking skills...

This paper discusses the perceptions on the part of a large cohort of Sydney-based second year university accounting students of the benefits of group-work in developing transferable skills in teamwork, self-management, and planning and organising. The Australian accounting profession and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine accounting students' experience of compulsory group work. The paper hypothesises that a student-centered style of teaching-involving activities, like case studies and group-based learning encourages students to take a deeper approach to...

In this paper, we highlight some qualitative facets of the discipline of statistics and argue that a qualitative approach, in particular a qualitative methodology known as phenomenography, allows us to research important aspects of statistics pedagogy. We summarize several components of our...

In the field of higher education, the role of sustainability is increasingly seen as an important capability of successful graduates, one of a group of higher-level dispositions that is particularly important for students’ future professional roles. Discussion of sustainability often assumes...

This paper provides an assessment framework for shared collaboration among accounting educators. Key developments in higher education more broadly and challenges specific to accounting education are synthesised to identify their combined effects on the accounting curriculum and on accounting...

Using Australian data this paper investigates the information content of losses. We are motivated by the possibility that losses and profits have different associations with share returns because losses are not expected to be permanent. Consistent with the evidence in Hayn (1995), our findings...

<i>Provisional Guidance on Asset Management Plans</i> (AMPs) for schools was published by the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) in August 1998. These plans will help English Local Education Authorities (LEAs) to identify, agree and address the most urgent and important priorities in their...

Des instructions relatives à la mise en œuvre de Plans de gestion des actifs (AMP) concernant les établissements scolaires ont été publiées par le ministère de l’Éducation et de l’Emploi du Royaume-Uni en août 19981. Ces plans aideront les autorités locales de l’enseignement...