Faculty Utilization of End-Of-Chapter Textbook Material in Developing Intermediate Accounting Students' Professional Competencies (Report‪)‬

INTRODUCTION For over 20 years, those interested in accounting education have pondered the question, "What type of curriculum will best prepare students for successful careers in accounting?" The American Accounting Association's Bedford Committee (1986), the then-Big 8 CPA firms (1989), the Accounting Education Change Commission (1990, hereafter referred to as AECC), and Albrecht & Sack (2000) have all answered this question in essentially the same way. In their opinion, accounting education should decrease its traditional focus on the memorization of technical accounting rules and increase its emphasis on critical-thinking, communication, and interpersonal skills.