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Volume 19, Issue 3
1 March 1977
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Review Article| March 01 1977

The accountancy workshop in education

Les Austin
Les Austin
Head of Professional Accounting Studies Dept., South West London College
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6127
Print ISSN: 0040-0912
© MCB UP Limited
1977
Education + Training (1977) 19 (3): 89–91.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb016489

Most accountancy tutors would agree that Sophocles' aphorism One must learn by doing the thing is particularly apposite to the study of book‐keeping and its related subjects, costing and auditing. Accordingly they usually intersperse their instruction with as much practical work as possible.

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