Accounting education stands at a crossroads in a world of rapid technological advancement and the rise of AI. This necessitates fundamentally reimagining how we prepare future accounting professionals and how we design courses, and teach and assess students.
Over six years, through a consistent assessment administered to cohorts of 500 to 800 students, an unintended experiment took shape. I didn’t set out to create an AI study. I was designing a realistic assessment of workplace communication and judgement. AI simply arrived mid-experiment, like a colleague who joins a…Read more
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The use of AI can be seen as a way to save time and become more efficient, but would you rely on it to choose which companies to invest in? Or would you rely on AI to create your tax return? Having been in academia for nearly twenty years, I…Read more
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Dr Anwar Halari, Senior Lecturer in Accounting at The Open University. Generative AI and learning: what we might lose “ChatGPT, please summarise this article for me” AI would probably do a great job of this and no doubt it will save the reader some time – but it might miss…Read more
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Stuart Pedley-Smith shares insights and thoughts about teaching accounting using AI and how large language models are reshaping the way we teach finance professionals. It includes explanations and demonstrations. Resources OpenAI Academy OpenAI operates ChatGPT. Its academy provides bite-sized tutorials, in-person workshops and (shortly) learning communities built around students and…Read more
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Dr Shonagh Douglas, lecturer in accounting and finance at the Robert Gordon University, outlines ways in which we can take the first steps in developing examinable AI-related skills in accountancy subjects. Accountancy education is heavily driven by examinations both in the professional and academic context. It might be easy to…Read more
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Hugh Martin, founder of Procountancy, provides a step-by-step guide for guiding students to use AI prompts in accounting education. When you think about accounting courses, what comes to mind? For me, it’s gigantic textbooks, long-running lectures, lengthy examples, and several disparate resources like practice questions and summary notes. Even in…Read more
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Samantha Bell is a senior lecturer in accounting at the University of Bristol. Sam Bell considers the impact of AI in accounting coursework assessments. She explores how questions and rubrics can be adapted to deter improper use of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Google Bard and BingChat. She…Read more
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