Abstract The article presents information about opportunities identified by the committees of the American Accounting Association for accounting education within the recommendations of the Bedford Committee. The Bedford Committee's structural suggestions can be summed up as expanding the view of accounting from a narrow discipline to a broad process of information development and distribution, requiring five years of university education and deferring specialized accounting courses until near the end of this period. To improve the ability of students to deal with innovation, the Bedford Committee recommended designing interactive classroom sessions to focus on unstructured problems or cases. Such an approach is intended to instill a curiosity for learning and understanding and to provide a foundation for a lifetime of actively acquiring new knowledge. Today's students will face a practice environment that is continually expanding. The changes will include the extension of auditing standards to more comprehensive attestation standards, new, ways of viewing allocations and costing schemes in managerial accounting and innovative computer applications. Factors driving these changes range from the growth of international competition to the mushrooming of computer technology.
Joseph J. Schulz (Wed,) studied this question.