The fifth volume in a AAHE and Campus Compact’s series on service-learning in the disciplines, this volume focuses on curriculum reform in accounting programs based on goals identified by accounting educators and describes specific implementations across the accounting curriculum. A practical guide with real solutions for both accounting educators and students.
Contents
Foreword ......................................................................... v
About This Series
Edward Zlotkowski ...................................................................................... vii
Introduction
D.V. Rama ................................................................................... 1
Part 1
Theoretical Essays on Se/Vice-Leaming in Accounting
Service-Learning: An Active-Learning Approach for Accounting Education
D.V. Rama ............................................................................ " ........ 3
Service-Learning: The Accountants for the Public Interest Perspective
Wayne G, Bremser " .................................................................. 19
"What I Do, I Understand": Service-Learning in Accounting Curricula
William L. Weis .................................................... , ........... , ....... 37
Service-Learning in Accounting: A Department Chair's Perspective
Alfonso R. Oddo ................................................. , .......... , ...... 53
Part 2
Implementation Approaches
Service-Learning: A "Free Enterprise" Model for Accounting Faculty
Curtis L. DeBerg ......................................... , .............................. 65
Expanding the Boundaries of Accounting Education
Through Service-Learning
lynn M. Pringle" ........................................ , ....................... 85
Service-Learning in Accounting: A Role for VITA Tax Programs
Janice Carr . , ....... , ......................... " ........... ,' ..... 101
Tax Assistance Program Provides Service-Learning at Notre Dame
and St. Mary's College
Ken Milani .................................................................... , ................ , .. 117
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance and the Use of Technology
Nathan Oestreich, Carol Venable, and Martha Doran ................ 125
Service-Learning Project in the Accounting Information Systems Course:
Implementation Without the Benefit of Hindsight
Alfred R. Michenzi .............................................................. 133
Reaching Our Goals Together in Service-learning:
A Multi-Semester Accounting Information Systems
Course Implementation
Margarita Maria Lenk ............................................................. 147
Service-learning in a Capstone Course
James W. Woolley.................................................................... 157
Teaching Professional Accounting Ethics With Service-learning
Susan P. Ravenscroft .................................................................... 167
Student Consulting Organizations:
An Alternative Approach to Service-learning
Timothy S. Mech............................................................... 191
Service-learning Projects in Accounting: Implementation Strategies
D.V. Rama ................................................................. 203
Afterword
Service-learning in Accounting Education
Paul Locatelli ........................................................................ 209
