Except where otherwise copyrighted, reproduction of the material in this CPA Letter supplement is encouraged and permitted if source acknowledgement is made and a copy of the reproduction is sent to the editor. Article submissions are welcome and should be directed to the supplement editor. It lays the foundation for progressive curriculum change and provides resources for educators to implement the Vision in academe.
Academic support is a necessary precedent to the profound changes forecasted for the profession.
I urge all educators to embrace the future promise of the profession, exercise their powerful influence and utilize the Framework to critically evaluate curricula and teaching methods in place to effectively develop incoming professionals as valued business advisers. At this stage in its development, the Framework identifies core functional, personal and broad business perspective competencies that are universally applicable to a diverse and growing array of accounting career options. Course listings are not pre scribed and competencies are not ranked in any way to be flexible to varying institutional environments, resources and missions. It reflects the needs of the profession at large since it is based largely on the national, grass-roots consensus obtained in the CPA Vision Process. However, the online access to current, peer-reviewed benchmarks and the evaluation tool will help take the AECC recommendations to the next level.