Accounting in a Liberal Arts Curriculum.

Abstract The article presents the author's comments on studying accounting in a liberal arts college. He speaks in the defense of the subject. The author asserts that accounting in the liberal arts college has struck deep root and is there to stay. It has inherent qualities that justify the position it now holds in the liberal arts curriculum, and it may be a factor in inducing changes within the college in the direction of a more frank facing of the situation regarding the problem of professional education. The author also finds himself somewhat unprepared to accept the implications of the reference to professional education. He do not think that the case for accounting as a subject making a contribution to a liberal arts curriculum is strongest when put in terms of professional education or of a possible revision of liberal arts curricula looking toward more professional training, as this expression is commonly accepted. According to the author the most valuable contributions which accounting can make toward the enrichment of a liberal arts curriculum are those which can be made within the framework of a conception of this curriculum which has little, if anything, to do with professional or vocational education.