Abstract The charge of this committee was "to survey previous American Accounting Association studies as well as current practice and to recommend a preferred curriculum and degree or degrees to be conferred. The American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business has instituted and implemental accreditation of graduate degree programs in colleges of business administration. A student must hold an undergraduate degree from an accredited institution to be admitted into a master's program in accounting with a satisfactory grade-point average. Nationwide testing should be supported to improve admission standards. Career accounting teachers should have earned doctoral degrees. Organization behavior is a course stressing human relations applied particularly to business and large scale organizations. Microeconomic Theory should be a course to integrate the concepts found in intermediate price theory and other economics courses with corresponding business practices.
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