Abstract Presents information on issues related to the demand for a change in accounting education curriculum. Information that legislation requires students to have completed 150 semester hours of college education in order to take the certified public accountant examination; Report that the body of accounting and business knowledge has expanded; Note on the proposals and legislation directed at the requirement of a fifth year of college education for accountants; Opinion that the 150-hour legislation appears to be a friend of curriculum experimentation and revision; View that educators have an important stake in 150 hour legislation and they have a responsibility to influence its development; Information that the education models of other professions, such as law and medicine, produce broad development before individuals begin their professional education; Note on the author's perception of the difference between legal and medical education and accounting education; Information that legal education typically requires three years of study following completion of an undergraduate degree, which can be in a wide variety of fields.
Jan R. Williams (1990) studied this question.