April 2025 - Accounting Cafe

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Meaningful learning starts with making connections

Stuart Pedley-Smith provides practical techniques for anchoring information and creating advance organisers. He suggests ways to use AI tools to personalise learning experiences using Ausubel’s theory of meaningful learning. A version of this article was first published in Pedleysmiths Blog on 30 April 2025. Have you ever stopped to think…Read more

Is accountancy in crisis?

For those who teach, advise or employ accountants, IFAC’s global study on the “Attractiveness of the Accountancy Profession” offers an opportunity to shape this important conversation. Very few children dream of becoming an accountant, but worryingly fewer than ever are becoming accountants. The stakes are higher than you think This…Read more

Finance careers are changing, but double-entry bookkeeping is here to stay

Middlesex University and Accounting Cafe hosted an event bringing together educators and industry representatives to explore the evolving landscape of accounting and finance education. In an era of rapid technological change, what skills will tomorrow’s finance professionals need? How can educators prepare students for careers that may look dramatically different…Read more