Learning By Doing: Concepts and Models for Service Learning in Accounting (Service Learning in the Disciplines Series)

✍ Scribed by D. V. Rama

• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The fifth volume in a AAHE and Campus Compact’s series on service-learning in the disciplines, this volume focuses on curriculum reform in accounting programs based on goals identified by accounting educators and describes specific implementations across the accounting curriculum. A practical guide with real solutions for both accounting educators and students.

✦ Table of Contents

Learning by Doing Concepts and Modelsfor Service-Learning in Accounting......Page 2
Contents......Page 4
Foreword......Page 6
About This Series......Page 8
Introduction......Page 12
Service-Learning: An Active-Learning Approach for Accounting Education......Page 14
Service-Learning: The Accounts for the Public Interest Perspective......Page 30
"What I Do, I Understand": Service-Learning in Accounting Curricula......Page 48
Service-Learning in Accounting: A Department Chair's Perspective......Page 64
Service-Learning: A "Free Enterprise" Model for Accounting Faculty......Page 76
Expanding the Boundaries of Accounting Education Through Service-Learning......Page 96
Service-Learning in Accounting: A Role for VITA Tax Programs......Page 112
Tax Assistance Program Provides Service-Learning at Notre Dame and St. Mary's College......Page 128
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance and the Use of Technology......Page 136
Service-Learning Project in the Accounting Information Systems Course: Implementation Without the Benefit of Hindsight......Page 144
Reaching Our Goals Together in Service-Learning: A Multi-Semester Accounting Information Systems Course implementation......Page 158
Service-Learning in a Capstone Course......Page 168
Teaching Professional Accounting Ethics With Service-Learning......Page 178
Student Consulting Organizations: An Alternative Approach to Service-Learning......Page 202
Service-Learning Projects in Accounting: Implementation Strategies......Page 214
Afterword Service-Learning in Accounting Education......Page 220
Annotated Bibliography......Page 224
Contributors to This Volume......Page 238