A PLEA FOR A BALANCED TRAINING PROGRAM FOR ACCOUNTING STUDENTS.
Teaching and training of students who are planning to enter the public accounting profession has been the target for many articles and has been the subject for much discussion by both accountants and educators. The American Accounting Association and the American Institute of Accountants have contributed greatly to the exchange of ideas on this topic through their conventions and in their publications. So great is the interest, in this still unsettled question, that large sums of money have been spent in developing aptitude and achievement tests for colleges and universities and for the promotion of research in the interest of improving the training of prospective public accountants. The achieving of this so-called balance in the accounting program is not an easy task but it is an interesting one. A carefully planned curriculum is only the beginning. Many educators are now advocating graduate training and five year courses for public accounting majors. Perhaps this is the answer to the problem of turning out finished accounting students. Perhaps they are expecting too much of the four year college graduates.
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- 10.2308/tar-7087048
- Volume
- 27 (4)
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- 514-516
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