Accounting Courses at Nineteen American Universities.

The article examines accounting courses at nineteen American Universities. The author proposes that one approach to developing or revamping an accounting course is to review what has been done in similar courses at either own institution or other universities. Several years ago, after having compiled a record number of these requests in a short period of time, it occurred to him that there might be merit in doing this on a more systematic basis and on a larger scale. His objective was twofold: first to prepare a crossection of these course outlines for publication to serve as a standard of comparison for accounting teachers everywhere and second, to report upon interesting or noteworthy teaching techniques as revealed by study of the outlines. With the generous cooperation of colleagues' from nineteen university accounting faculties, he obtained copies of the student assignment sheets used recently in their accounting courses together with other course information. These universities were: California, Carnegie-Mellon, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, Illinois, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Purdue, Stanford, Tulane, Wisconsin and Yale.