The Interface of Accounting Education and Professional Training

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Over many decades the global development of professional accounting education programs has been undertaken by both higher education institutions, professional accounting bodies, and employers. In the past these institutions have sometimes co-operated and sometimes been in conflict over the education and/or training of future accounting professionals. These ongoing problems of linkage and closure between academic accounting education in the academy and professional training in the workplace have new currency because of pressures from students and employers to move accounting preparation on to a more efficient, economic and practical basis. The expectations of academics, students, employers a…