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Accounting Education

A great deal of this literature is linked to either political or ethical issues and the related literature. It is mostly critical of accounting education and raises issues as to whether social and environmental accounting can offer something more interesting in the education of students:

  • Davis S.W. & W.R. Sherman (1996) "The Accounting Education Change Commission: A Critical Perspective" Critical Perspectives on Accounting 7(1/2) Feb/April (pp159-189)
  • Gray R.H., K.J.Bebbington & K.McPhail (1994) "Teaching Ethics and the Ethics of Accounting Teaching: Educating for immorality and a case for social and environmental accounting education" Accounting Education 3(1) Spring (pp51-75)
  • Gray R.H. and D.J.Collison (2002) "Can't See The Wood For The Trees, Can't See The Trees For The Numbers? Accounting Education, Sustainability And The Public Interest"   Critical Perspectives on Accounting 13(5/6) (pp797-836)
  • Gray R.H., & D.J.Collison with J.French, K.McPhail & L.Stevenson (2001) The professional accountancy bodies and the provision of education and training in relation to environmental issues (Edinburgh: ICAS)
  • Humphrey C., L.Lewis & D.Owen (1996) "Still too distant voices? Conversations and reflections on the social relevance of accounting education" Critical Perspectives on Accounting 7(1/2)  (pp77-99)
  • Lewis L., C.Humphrey and D.Owen (1992) "Accounting and the Social: A Pedagogic Perspective" British Accounting Review Vol. 24 No.3 (pp219-233)
  • Stevenson L. (2002) "Social and Environmental Accounting Teaching in UK and Irish Universities: A research note on changes between 1993 and 1998", Accounting Education, 11(4), (pp331-346).
  • See also Accounting Education Special Issue on Social and Environmental Accounting Education, 10(4), November 2001, (pp333-382).