Advances in Accounting Education

Thomas G. Calderon is Professor of Accounting in the George W. Daverio School of Accountancy at the University of Akron, USA. A past president of the Teaching and Curriculum Section of the American Accounting Association, he served as Chair of the School of Accountancy from 2005 to 2018, and from 2014-2016 completed a two-year term as Chair of the University of Akron's caucus of department chairs and school directors.

• THEME 1: CURRICULUM AND PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATIONS Chapter 1. Accounting and Audit Quality Perspective: Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures Curriculum Gaps; Thomas R. Weirich and Natalie Tatiana Churyk Chapter 2. Who's Got Next? An Analysis of the Inhibitors to Mobile Game Adoption in an Introductory Accounting Class; Todd White, Richard G. Brody, and Gaurav Gupta Chapter 3. A Service Learning Approach to Teaching CVP Analysis in Cost Accounting; C. Andrew Lafond and Kristin Wentzel Chapter 4. Using the Accounting Equation for Preparing the Statement of Cash Flows; Joseph G. Donelan and Yu Liu THEME 2: FACULTY REFLECTIONS ON TEACHING ACCOUNTING DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Chapter 5. Teaching Forensic Accounting in a Covid Environment; J. Edward Ketz Chapter 6. Accounting Education in the Time of the Coronavirus or How Flipping the Classroom Heightened my Appreciation for Student Behavior; Timothy J. Fogarty Chapter 7. Leveraging a University's Dynamic Capabilities in a Turbulent Environment; Carolyn Strand Norman, J. Matthew Sarji, and Thomas Bowe Hansen Chapter 8. Lecture Modality: Student Attendance Choices and Performance; Kelly Green THEME 3: RESEARCH ON PASSING PROFESSIONAL EXAMS IN ACCOUNTING Chapter 9. Do Grades Earned in Accounting Courses Predict Performance on Related Sections of the CPA Exam?; Dennis Bline, Stephen Perreault, and Xiaochuan Zheng Chapter 10. The Most Effective Study Methods for Passing The CPA Exam: A Research Note; Denise Dickins, Rachel Hull, and Linda Quick Chapter 11. Perceptions of Challenges on the CPA Exam: Evidence from Puerto Rico; Rogelio J. Cardona, Karen C. Castro-González, Carmen B. Ríos-Figueroa, and José C. Vega-Vilca THEME 4: HISTORICAL UNDERPINNINGS AND THE CHOICE OF TAXATION AS AN AREA OF SPECIALIZATION Chapter 12. A History of Tax Education and the Adoption of the AICPA Model Tax Curriculum; Marsha M. Huber, Raymond Shaffer, Renee Castrigano, and Gary Robson Chapter 13. Accounting Student Selection of Taxation as a Professional Practice Area; Steven L. Gill and Brett S. Kawada