How does it feel to teach accounting right now?

That’s the question behind the Accounting Educator Barometer — a new, annual, anonymous survey of the mood among accounting educators worldwide. We’re gathering hundreds of voices from across the field, and we’d like yours.

Your answers are anonymous. There’s no time limit but most people finish in about five minutes. It may take longer if you want more time to answer the open questions.

Is this for you?

You don’t have to call yourself an “accounting educator” to take part. If you help people learn accounting — in any setting, at any level, anywhere in the world, as all of your job or part of it — your view counts.

By accounting we mean financial and management accounting, financial reporting, audit, tax, and the reading and use of financial statements. So the Barometer is for university academics, for tutors and providers for professional qualifications, and for those who train accountants inside firms. Just as much, it’s for the school and college teachers who teach accounting either as a standalone subject or within other related topics such as business or entrepreneurship. If you teach students to read and use a set of accounts, that counts.

So, whatever the context, if you help people learn accounting, take part in the survey.

Why bother

A single response may not feel significant. But it is when it’s gathered along with hundreds of others. We expect it will reveal patterns of where our work feels meaningful, where it grinds, and whether the profession values the people who teach accounting.

The report will be published openly and free to read, whether or not you take part. We expect this to be in early autumn 2026.

Why us

Accounting Cafe is a volunteer-run community of accounting educators, started in 2021 and now a couple of thousand strong worldwide. It runs on a not-for-loss basis, with no grants, advertising or sponsorship behind it, and nothing to sell you. We answer to no awarding body, institution or regulator.

Your answers are anonymous

We don’t ask for your name, your email or your employer, and we record nothing that could identify you. You can read exactly how we handle your data, including our use of AI to make sense of the written comments, on our data handling page.

What happens next

We’re analysing responses through the summer and aiming to share the first findings at the Accounting Cafe Pop-up at Warwick Business School on 18 September 2026, with the full report following in the autumn. We expect the Barometer to become an annual fixture, so we can start reporting on how things are changing from one year to the next.

If you’d like the report when it’s published, you’ll be prompted to leave your email at the end of the survey. It’s collected separately from your answers, so your responses stay anonymous.

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How to cite this article: York, T. (2026) ‘How does it feel to teach accounting right now?’, Accounting Cafe, 22 June. Available at: https://accountingcafe.org/2026/06/22/accounting-education-barometer/ (Accessed: [insert date])