Brief description The EAA Education Committee recently conducted a survey to gather members’ perspectives of accounting education. We received a total of 90 responses, primarily from tenured faculty members with extensive teaching experience (over 50% of respondents have been teaching for more than 16 years). The respondents underscore the importance of their educational activities, though this is perceived as slightly less central compared to their research endeavors. EAA Members’ Future Expectations Respondents expressed a clear…

by Thorsten Sellhorn, LMU Munich School of Management At the recent EAA EFRAG ISSB Sustainability Reporting Standards Education Workshop, I shared some reflections on how I have tried to bring sustainability reporting into the classroom—not through a grand pedagogical innovation, but through concrete teaching practices anchored in regulatory developments and real-world data. My perspective is shaped by more than 25 years of teaching, mostly in financial reporting, and more recently by our work on the…

Exclusive access to ACCA certificates  In celebration of recently signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and the European Accounting Association (EAA), EAA member universities can take advantage of exclusive free of charge access to the following ACCA certificates:  Certificate in Data Analytics (Cert DA) – up to 150 certificates on first come first serve basis. Certificate in Sustainability for Finance (Cert SF) -up to 150 certificates on first come first serve basis) This initiative…

This year’s EAA Education Committee Hackathon entitled AI Driven Sustainability: Transforming Accounting Education for a Sustainable Future took place on the eve of the annual conference. The event was run by Karen Brickman (University of Greenwich), David Derichs (Aalto University), Jenni Rose (University of Manchester) and Susan Smith (University College London) supported by two Education Committee members, Joan Ballantine (Ulster University) and Greg Stoner (University of Glasgow). Hackathons are hands-on, time-limited events where participants work…