Browsing by Research Output - Subject "Accounting China Hong Kong."

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With economic empirical research emphasized in accounting at the majority of universities worldwide in the past three to four decades, would this enhance the teaching effectiveness of accounting or would this be at the expense of teaching and learning of accounting? The purpose of this study is twofold: 1. to determine through literature review the different views between research productivity and teaching effectiveness, what academic research today is all about and its relevance to practitioners and 2. to conduct a survey of accounting academics and the accounting profession in Hong Kong via a survey questionnaire (12 questions) followed by interviews of respondents with respect to their emphasis on teaching and research and the relevance of academic accounting research to practitioners.

10 pages

Accounting academics and practitioners may not agree on certain issues. The importance of lifelong learning for the accounting profession is presented. This paper aims to compare the views of academics and practitioners of accounting towards the importance of lifelong learning in the accounting profession. If both parties are supportive of lifelong learning, then lifelong learning is a must not only in the accounting profession, but can be generalized for all professionals for the reasons brought forth in this paper.

26 pages