Abstract Presents the author's view regarding the credibility and problems of the accounting profession. Examples of sources of information acquired by graduating accounting students; View of the author that stories of accountants' wrongdoings are dramatic events in the mainstream of the routine and undramatic news that needs to be reported; Comments on some of the papers related to accounting that were delivered at the annual American Accounting Association convention at College Park; Importance of co-operation between the academic and practicing side of the profession.
Brian J. Casey (Thu,) studied this question.