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March 18, 2026The Accounting Review

Current Practice in Teaching Elementary Accounting.

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RJRalph Coughenour Jones

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Overview

This article summarizes various teaching methods in accounting education, highlighting instructional variances across institutions.

Key Points

  • The article aims to summarize responses from colleges about their practices in teaching first-year accounting.
  • Sent a questionnaire to member colleges and universities of the American Accounting Association
  • Collected replies from fifty-three schools in the U.S. and Canada
  • Facilitated a round-table discussion based on the collected responses
  • Highlighted significant differences in teaching methods and objectives across institutions
  • Pointed out that comparing standards of instruction is ineffective due to varied course contexts

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Ralph Coughenour Jones (1937) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69ba428e4e9516ffd37a2f25https://doi.org/10.2308/tar-7082119
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