What makes accounting interesting for learners? Viewpoint of a teacher from India

Abstract

PurposeThe article aims to share the viewpoint of the author on the impact of the innovative teaching pedagogy adopted by him in teaching the accounting courses on the satisfaction of the participants in a premier Indian Business School.Design/methodology/approachThe experiment was carried over by introducing an innovative teaching approach by the author among the first-year participants of the Management Program. At the end of the experiment, the participants were asked to rate the teaching approach on a five-point scale besides offering the qualitative feedback on the impact of the experiment on their learning outcomes.FindingsThe paper concludes that the participants were highly satisfied with the teaching approach adopted by the author.Originality/valueThe study contributes to the theory and practitioners on accounting education in many ways. First, it is offering evidence on the impact of teaching pedagogy on the satisfaction of the participants of the accounting courses of an emerging market business school. Second, the accounting educators of the emerging countries may replicate the experiment in their institutes. Third, the educators of other courses in the business schools may make an effort to measure the impact of the teaching approach on the feedback of their learners.

Quality of Accounting Knowledge and Its Impact on Profession

“…These results implied that, in the future, financial accounting education should be improved to make it more suitable for millennials. The curriculum of financial accounting can be shifted from a clerical role to an analytical role, that is, allocating more credits to the financial statement analysis course and accounting theory course than to the principles of accounting or the intermediate accounting course (Narayanasamy, 2020). Financial statement analysis and accounting theory can provide more analytical and social knowledge, in which millennials are interested (Ong & Djajadikerta, 2019).…”