The High School Accounting Curriculum: friend or foe

aut.conference.typePublished Abstract
aut.researcherWells, Paul Kaye
dc.contributor.authorWells, Paul
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-10T01:25:54Z
dc.date.available2013-06-10T01:25:54Z
dc.date.copyright2013-05-13
dc.date.issued2013-05-13
dc.description.abstractConcern that the high school accounting curriculum may be discouraging students from pursuing a career in accounting provided the motivation for this study. Drawing on social psychology theory, this paper identifies and analyses the perceptions of accounting held by senior high school students. Individual perception data were collected through questionnaires. Further, separate focus groups comprising students who had and who had not previously studied accounting provided a basis on which to ascertain how and why perceptions of accounting may have been formed. Those students taking accounting classes had more focused, but also more negative perceptions of accounting and accountants than did those with no previous study in accounting. Perceptions across both groups of students were more stereotypical than expected however while indirectly linked, the influences on the resultant perception differed for each group thus requiring different intervention strategies.
dc.identifier.citationBritish Accounting and Finance Association Accounting Education Symposium held at Hendon Hall Hotel, Middlesex, London, 2013-05-13 to 2013-05-15
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/5447
dc.relation.urihttp://elearn.mdx.ac.uk/BAFAAESIG2013/programme.htm
dc.rightsNOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in (see Citation). The original publication is available at (see Publisher's Version).
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.subjectPerceptions
dc.subjectStereotypes
dc.subjectAccounting
dc.subjectAccountants
dc.subjectStudents
dc.titleThe High School Accounting Curriculum: friend or foe
dc.typeConference Contribution
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pubs.organisational-data/AUT/Business & Law
pubs.organisational-data/AUT/Business & Law/Accounting
pubs.organisational-data/AUT/Business & Law/Accounting/Accounting PBRF 2012
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