Recently, the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) has focused its attention on mandating specific ethics coursework within the 150-hr requirement for eligibility to sit for the uniform CPA examination. This push for ethics education heightened attention toward ethics in the accounting curriculum and is the basis for the…

Accelerated degree classes and programs are becoming increasingly popular across college campuses, mainly because of changing demographic trends of students seeking tertiary education. However, there is a lack of research on student attitudes and intentions from an administrative perspective. Investigating a large sample of graduate business…

The author shares some thoughts about faculty development, with the intended purpose of being responsive to the lagging relationship between the increasing availability of microcomputers and a business faculty's ability to integrate more effectively that technology into business curricula. A faculty development effort is suggested. (CT)

This 1984 study examines what university administrators are currently scheduling and plan to incorporate in future accounting computer curriculum. Educational administrators expect to maintain or increase computer requirement emphasis in the accounting curriculum. The most frequently stated impediment was lack of computer equipment. (CT)

Describes a project in which an urban university and a local retail establishment in a metropolitan area collaborated with a postsecondary institution in a market research project designed to determine the degree of professionalism practiced in sales performances in retail stores. (CT)

Presents a study conducted to determine which barriers to effective communication are perceived as most serious by business communication students and to test for differences in the seriousness of the communication barriers based on various student characteristics. The sample consisted of 266 student registered in 10 sections of business…

Describes results of a questionnaire asking the following questions: Do the perceptions of good pay but unpleasant work persist among accountants after they have completed their undergraduate work? What types of undergraduate accounting courses are considered by practicing accountants and accounting graduate students to be helpful? What…

The author defines the term "entrepreneur" and discusses how business educators can train students to run a small business successfully. She notes the trend toward job growth in the service industry and states that this trend will influence the growth of entrepreneurship as an area of study. (CH)

Marketing students and faculty members completed a survey on their attitudes toward cheating behaviors. Forty-nine percent of the students stated that they had cheated at school. Results show an inverse relationship between the frequency of the occurrence of cheating and the person's judgment of the severity of the cheating behavior. (CH)

The author discusses how to teach database concepts to business students. He suggests using relevant databases with information related to jobs or student interests, so students can learn to use databases while searching for useful information. Several database topics and sources of data are suggested. (CH)

The author presents potential models for articulation between business education programs. A list of 10 principles for articulation, based on the experience of successful articulation programs, is included. (CH)

The author examines four questions regarding professional accounting education: (1) Why the controversy over the conceptual versus the technical approach?, (2) What should the objectives be?, (3) Why teach theory and not technical knowledge?, and (4) Where does the field go from here? Implications for further research are discussed. (CH)

A survey of 62 postsecondary business education teachers aimed to determine the frequency of library assignments in undergraduate business classes. Results, listing frequency of assignments by class, by type of assignment, and by class size, indicate that use of and enthusiasm for library assignments remain strong. (CH)

Ninety students were pretested and posttested in an accounting principles course to determine how expectations and perceptions of self-control affected their grade on an examination and how the grade changed their perceptions. Students who did poorer than anticipated on the test exhibited some expectancy shifts. (CH)

The authors present a method to examine the interfaces between business courses for redundancy. The method is demonstrated by examining the content in managerial finance and managerial accounting courses. A decision model application of analysis, expert judgment, and synthesis are incorporated in this method. (CH)