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Many of us teach introductory financial reporting to students who are completely new to both accounting and university. They arrive excited, nervous, ambitious and often overwhelmed. Many are adjusting to a new city, a new institution, a new friendship group and a much more independent way of learning. Some are…Read more

Build, connect, audit: A business process simulation

When I first taught Accounting Information Systems and Auditing, I inherited workshops that were largely delivered through teaching slides. So I created a business process simulation to introduce students to revenue, expenditure, conversion, and management cycles, together with the documents, records, and internal controls associated with each cycle. The content…Read more

Every classroom has a culture. How intentional are you about it?

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Many of us teach introductory financial reporting to students who are completely new to both accounting and university. They arrive excited, nervous, ambitious and often overwhelmed. Many are adjusting to a new city, a new institution, a new friendship group and a much more independent way of learning. Some are…Read more

This conversation is a chance to think with other accounting educators: what our behaviour signals, what we encourage, and how students help shape the learning environment. Students who never speak. Chatter at the back. Activities that work brilliantly with one group fall flat with another. Whether we mean to or…Read more

When I first taught Accounting Information Systems and Auditing, I inherited workshops that were largely delivered through teaching slides. So I created a business process simulation to introduce students to revenue, expenditure, conversion, and management cycles, together with the documents, records, and internal controls associated with each cycle. The content…Read more

That’s the question behind the Accounting Educator Barometer — a new, annual, anonymous survey of the mood among accounting educators worldwide. We’ve gathered hundreds of voices from across the world, and we’re sharing the results. The Barometer ran from 30 June to 2 August 2026 and we collected 652 responses…Read more

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