...Rafik Elias Purpose The accounting profession has emphasized the need for professionals to develop ethical attitudes early in their career, even before they enter the profession. The current study aims to examine the attitude of 128 US auditing students regarding whistleblowing. Design...

... managers, and the consequent influences on the student's educational and career plans. Design/methodology/approach In total 105 accounting majors at two institutions were surveyed. Forsyth's ethics position questionnaire was used to evaluate the student's ethical orientation. The survey instrument also...

...Gene Smith Purpose To provide accounting practitioners and educators some of the reasons for the decreasing trend of students majoring in accounting and describe some of the activities that can be undertaken by accounting educators and practitioners to reverse the trend. Design/methodology...

... as to whether the accounting program has contributed toward lowering the level of communications apprehension on two groups of accounting students: those who are entering the program and others who are exiting the program. Findings show that there is no significant difference between the level of communications...

...Zezhong Xiao; Venancio Tauringana This paper reports the findings of a study of how new universities train research students in accounting and finance from a student perspective. The purpose is to provide evidence of the problems faced by the new universities in offering research degrees...

..., research, and public service. We will then measure output in terms of number of classes and cost per student for teaching as compared to research and service output. The final and more difficult task, however, is to measure outcome; i.e. a certain amount of expenditure on teaching, research, or service...

... Students Universities An article appeared in the 13 September, 1993 issue of Wall Street Journal by a Mr Maeroff, a Fellow at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in Princeton, New Jersey. In this article, Mr Maeroff criticizes professors for teaching an average of ten...

... helpful to students. The university has negotiated the best rates possible for the use of credit cards. Many students and their parents see this as a service and this benefit cannot easily be taken away from them. If this service is denied, there is the possibility that a number of students would...

... 1997 Accounting Financial management Higher education Students Universities In the past five years, as I looked at the university expenditure which hovered around $300 million, I often wondered how much of this total represents faculty costs and how much accounts for the university...

...Roger K. Doost Aims to counter the arguments that higher education has become too expensive and is not worthwhile. Points out that higher education cannot be evaluated in purely monetary terms. Discusses the cost of higher education to the student and the nation or state; the value of higher...

... million in administrative and academic organizations which could bring the overhead down to about 140 per cent of faculty salary and benefits as compared to its current level of 146.5 per cent. Accounting Financial management Higher education Students Universities It all happened last...

...Raymond J. Clay, Jr Describes the task of developing and performing a mock operational audit which was assigned to students in an internal audit graduate class at the University of North Texas. The assignment consisted of researching a particular operational area found in most business...

... of the Treadway Commission (COSO) which provides a widely accepted definition of internal control. Continues to review ways of gearing an internal audit course towards operational auditing, beginning with a description of basic methods of exposing students to operational auditing: including audit reports...

... as an important career path for the accounting or auditing students on college campuses was infrequent, and most organizations did not hire newly graduated students. Finding that the college curricula did not foster programmes specifically addressed towards preparing the future internal auditor,organizations...

..., and reveals some of the drawbacks of case studies. Analyses the advantages and disadvantages of the case study method. Concludes that the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages. Most of the students were attending graduate school part‐time while working full‐time; one student currently worked...