Accounting Research Journal: Volume 30 Issue 3

Corporate boards, monitoring and securities class actions: a pitch

Victoria J. Clout

The purpose of this paper is to apply Faff’s (2015) pitch template to a regulatory financial accounting research topic. The author describes her personal reflections on completing…

Current opinions on forensic accounting education

Bonita Kramer, Michael Seda, Georgiy Bobashev

This paper aims to determine current views of educators and practitioners regarding forensic accounting education, given the recent dramatic growth in the number of colleges and…

Situated learning in accountancy: an employer perspective

Trevor Albert Stanley

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the perspectives of employers who participated in a 100-hour, for credit, unpaid, work placement programme in accountancy.

Enhancing students understanding of introductory accounting by integrating split-attention instructional material

Seedwell T.M. Sithole

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of two instructional design formats on learning outcomes in introductory accounting.

A teaching note on the controllability “Principle” and performance measurement

Steven T. Schwartz, Eric E. Spires, Richard A. Young

The purpose of this note is to expose accounting students and others to recent findings in management control, specifically to the relationship between the informativeness of a…

Learning commercial computerised accounting programmes: Perceptions and motivations

Ali Yaftian, Soheila Mirshekary, Dessalegn Getie Mihret

Practical accountving skills such as the ability to use commercial computerised accounting programmes (CCAP) is increasingly becoming expected of accounting graduates. To…

Students’ experience toward ePortfolios as a reflective assessment tool in a dual mode indigenous business course

Kerry Anne Bodle, Mirela Malin, Andrew Wynhoven

The purpose of this paper is to investigate students’ experiences of, and attitudes on, the use of technology – in the form of ePortfolio – as an assessment tool. The authors seek…