Exploring the perceptions of academic trainees

ISBN-13: 9783659644184 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 148 str.

Malan Marelize

Opis

Accounting education at the Department is based on International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). IFRS is seen as principle-based standards. Many educators of accounting will have to adapt their teaching strategies and approaches when they deal with principle-based standards. They need to move away from teaching the rules to facilitating the understanding of principles, so that it can be applied to various scenarios. The purpose of this study is to explore the perceptions of academic trainees on a new teaching and learning strategy in the Department. This is done through a review of pedagogical approaches and strategies as suggested in the literature and then by gaining insight from academic trainees, through in-depth interviews, of the detailed working of the new teaching and learning strategy and the impact that the new teaching and learning strategy had on their learning of IFRS.

O autorze

Marelize Malan obtained her B.Com in Accounting at the University of Johannesburg in 1995 after which she passed the CA exams whilst completing her articles at KPMG. She is currently a senior lecturer at UJ in accounting for students on the CA stream and holds an M.Com in International Accounting within a research field of accounting education.