A Blockchain Course for Accounting and Other Business Students

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Abstract

We describe how accounting and other business professors can add blockchain to their existing or separate courses. Based upon a popular, online course at Our Home University (OHU), we provide examples of a course syllabus, suggested readings, group and individual assignments materials, and student comments. This course addresses two key features that Iansiti and Lakhan (2017) identified about blockchain: novelty and complexity. Given blockchain’s complexity and growing prominence in business, this course develops students’ knowledge, starting with understanding blockchain’s basic concepts and advancing to focus on business applications.

Authors

• Myles Stern, Wayne State University

• Alan Reinstein, Wayne State University