An Undergraduate Seminar in Accounting.

Abstract Despite the considerable successful effort which has been expended in improving graduate education and education in pursuit of a doctorate in the field of accounting, too little attention has been given the fact that in an undergraduate school the majority of business students terminate their formal educational efforts with graduation. In this interim of one's total educational experience, comparatively little attention is given to the relevance of accounting in a socio-economic environment. In the Fall of 1962, at La Salle College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania decided to recognize this deficiency in its accounting curriculum. After having studied this problem, in the Spring of 1963 the author and his colleagues inaugurated a seminar in accounting, a required course for all graduating seniors, a seminar designed to coordinate accounting and business courses from a purely conceptual point of view. In fashioning the seminar, cognizance was given the fact that knowledge is limited in value unless it can be communicated, either orally or in written form.