INTEGRATION OF TECHNOLOGY INTO
ACCOUNTING EDUCATION

Stella Sofocleous
School of Accounting
Victoria University
Australia

This paper provides an investigation on the integration of technology into Australian accounting education curriculum which improves and alters business requirements and practices for public practitioners. It examines whether the design of current accounting curricula sufficiently equips accounting students with the concepts of technology necessary to fulfil their duties as practising accountants. Employers, academics, and current students identify the need for adequate preparation of students in technology in order to gain skills applicable in the workforce and therefore become successful public accounting practitioners. This can be accomplished by making certain that higher education curriculum in accounting includes learning methods, teaching practices, ethical considerations, social and environmental awareness, and software offering that would be appropriate for public practice. This paper also deals with a pioneering subject in, which students are provided with an overview and knowledge of the role of the public accounting practitioner, and it prepares them to manage important technological aspects of public practice.

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