Infusing Corporate Social Responsibility in Introductory Managerial Accounting Course

• In Event: Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum 7

Abstract

We decided to infuse CSR within the managerial accounting course we recently taught. Given the consensus that CSR at present is seen as extraneous to introductory managerial accounting course, we feel we should report on our efforts to infuse CSR in way that supplemented what the textbook fails to do.That there is more material than what can be covered in a college level managerial accounting course is something that all those who have taught them would most likely agree. Given this, the very thought of adding corporate social responsibility (CSR) to an introductory managerial accounting course could arouse eye-brows. Even the textbooks commonly used for the course consider CSR to be rather extraneous to what would be considered the usual topics covered in the course. The text used by the authors of this paper devotes less than a page in a book that consist of close to five hundred pages. Since textbooks reflect what is considered by academics to be within the bounds of what a course should teach, the virtual absence of CSR in managerial accounting texts may be seen as representing the professional consensus.

Authors

• M Athar Murtuza, Seton Hall University

• Wagdy M Abdallah, Seton Hall University