An International Meeting of the American Accounting Association 2005 Annual Meeting August 7–10, 2005 San Francisco, California Come to the City by the Bay!

Effective Learning Strategies Forum
Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Session 16
The Education of the Accounting Professional: Pulling It All Together

Presenters:
David E. Tinius, Seattle University
Susan Weihrich, Seattle University

Description:
This session's focus is on a required senior synthesis course in the Seattle University accounting curriculum. The course is titled Controllership.

The primary purpose of the course is to develop in the accounting student a deeper understanding of the interrelationships of the subdisciplines of accounting—financial, cost, managerial, taxation, and systems. The core of study is the analysis of unstructured management decision problems in a variety of organizational contexts encompassing not only accounting, but other management issues including marketing, finance, operations, and ethics. The concerns of this course are addressed through cases, both written and video; through readings; and, importantly, through interaction with professionals in the fields of accounting, finance, and business ethics. This course is particularly effective in presenting an opportunity for the accounting major to improve skills in critical thinking, oral and written communication, in the use of the computer in analysis and presentation, and in working in teams.

Participants will learn to:

1. Help students more fully integrate their discrete understanding of the elements of accounting,
2. Drive home to students the broader role they will play as a management team member, and
3. Drive home to students the need to understand, deeply, the businesses they serve.

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