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The American Accounting Association's
KSAA Framework

As part of the development of the AAA's faculty development agenda, the Accounting Education Advisory Committee developed a framework of knowledge, skills, abilities and attitudes (KSAAs) for accounting scholars and departments to choose from, depending on their missions, to meet their faculty development goals.

The following is an outline of the main components of the KSAA structure. The complete framework, including detailed descriptions for each category below may also be reviewed.

• 1.0 Competencies useful for teaching, research, and service
• 1.1 Understanding of business phenomenon
• 1.2 Planning Skills
• 1.3 Relationship Skills
• 1.4 Self management
• 1.5 Knowledge about learning to learning and developing learning strategies
• 1.6 General knowledge about assessment
• 1.7 Information search and retrieval
• 1.8 Basic Computing Skills

• 2.0 Competencies useful for teaching and administration only
• 2.1 Planning
• 2.2 Program Management
• 2.3 Classroom management
• 2.4 Mentoring

• 3.0 Competencies needed for research only
• 3.1 Ability to create and publish interesting research
• 3.2 Ability and desire to review others' research
• 3.3 Ability and desire to mentor research

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