Evolving Accounting Education for the CPA Evolution

• In Event: Student Track: Accounting Issues

Abstract

Accounting Education is in a flux with the continuing need to measure outcomes while dealing with: changes to the educational requirements to sit for the CPA exam, the declining enrollment in both Master of Accountancy and MBA programs, and the joint effort joint effort of the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) and the AICPA seeking to align the CPA licensure model with the changing landscape of the accounting profession. Add to that the need to educate accounting majors on their future industry in an educational market that is shifting towards skills based learning over credit based degrees. But there are ways to manage it all and there are ways to design classes and outcomes to be easily be adapted to the profession’s evolution.
This illustration will provide an understanding of various approaches that match outcomes to flexible learning modules that can be rearranged as courses & outcomes change. Using a module approach to prepare students for CPA evolution and beyond.

Author

• Marianne M Rexer, Wilkes University