Committee on Professional Schools of Accounting.

Abstract The article highlights the report of the Committee on Professional Programs of Accounting of the American Accounting Association. The charge of this committee was to study alternative methods of organizing professional programs of accounting, to examine the relative advantages and disadvantages of each, and to prepare a position paper which sets forth the various feasible alternatives and the advantages and disadvantages of each for the guidance of educators, practitioners, and others interested in accounting. This study would appear timely due to the increased dimension of the accounting profession in industry, government and public practice which has stimulated the development of programs of accounting in recent years. Many new programs have been inaugurated within the past five years and others are at the planning stage in universities and colleges. Education for accountants in general and professional accounting programs in particular, have been the subject of many articles in professional journals and books.