Unless you can argue all the points you will never get to the nitty gritty of accounting. These particular students are part of a bold experiment - Project Discovery. It is one of many experiments at universities across the state as educators struggle with meeting the demands of their customers - you and your employers. This month we will take a look at how several universities throughout the state are changing how they teach accounting. In business, if the customer is not happy with the product or service.
Education is no different.
However, the business community is not one to stay silent for very long. Brown says the public accounting firms were clamoring for people who could move more rapidly into management positions because technology was replacing the need for huge staffs of junior accountants to do grunt work. They said what the students needed to have were much better reasoning skills, much better skills of communication and much better managerial skills. The corporate accounting professionals echoed those sentiments when the Gary Siegel Organization surveyed members of the Institute of Management Accountants. Financial Executives Institute and American Institute of CPAs in 1994.