Trends in Accounting Education: Decreasing Accounting Anxiety and Promoting New Methods

In this paper, authors (a) identified accounting anxiety for the educator and the student as a possible explanation for the decline in accounting education and (b) investigated new methods for teaching accounting at the secondary and postsecondary levels that will increase interest in accounting education as well as decrease educator and student anxiety about accounting. By becoming more familiar with course material and incorporating new methods for teaching accounting, accounting educators can reduce anxiety for themselves and their students thereby increasing student learning.