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THE PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTING SCHOOL AND NATURAL SCHOOL YEAR.

The Accounting Review 1953 28(1), 98-101
This article focuses on the professional accounting school and the natural school year and proposes some changes which can make these two more accessible to students. The article suggests a three-year professional school with an entrance prerequisite of two or more years of liberal arts work. As little prescribed work in the pre-professional preparation should be required as is feasible in order to make admittance to the professional school as easy and as flexible as possible. It is suggested to develop a more or less standard curriculum which would include the more important accounting courses designed to provide well-rounded training, considering the needs of both the executive and public accountants. Room should be left for elective work. Some room should be left for electives from the standpoint of individual choice of the student. The natural school year would be a natural part of the professional school. It would have its summer vacation during the first three months of the calendar year. The two semesters or three quarters would start after the "busy season" and end just before the Christmas vacation period. There would be breaks between these periods, of course. The idea would be to have a sort of built-in internship program.