{"id":2919,"date":"2026-05-05T17:21:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaa-online.org\/congress-2026\/?p=2919"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:47:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:47:22","slug":"symposium-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaa-online.org\/congress-2026\/2026\/05\/05\/symposium-03\/","title":{"rendered":"Symposium 03"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0099cc\">Accounting Education at a Crossroads: Rethinking Purpose, Practice, and Pedagogy<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Internationally, accounting educators face persistent calls for reform. Across Europe, the UK, the US, and Australasia, scholars have argued that current programmes over emphasis technical accounting education which no longer meet the evolving needs of the accountancy profession (e.g., Bolt-Lee &amp; Foster, 2003; Boyce et al., 2019; Carmona, 2013; Carnegie, 2022; Carnegie et al., 2024a; Chabrak &amp; Craig, 2013; Diamond, 2005; Hopper, 2013; Pincus et al., 2017; Powell &amp; McGuigan, 2023; Sorola &amp; Drujon d\u2019Astros, 2025).<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Building on international critiques and in the context of wider forces of digital transformation, sustainability imperatives, global risks, and eroding public trust, this symposium invites accounting educators to consider how our teaching and scholarship can better reflect accounting\u2019s holistic purpose. We will consider how to embed technical competence, social responsiveness, and moral purpose into accounting education to meet the profession\u2019s future needs. The symposium will also explore how accounting education can help renew the profession\u2019s social contract by developing graduates who see accounting not only as reporting value but also as creating and protecting value for society and the natural environment, cultivating ethically grounded, socially responsive accountants for the future.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Aim of the Symposium<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To provide a reflective and forward-looking platform for accounting educators, scholars, and professional accountancy bodies to discuss how the discipline can reclaim its foundational purpose in serving the public good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The symposium will:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Examine the role of educators in shaping citizen professionals who connect accounting practice with social responsibility.<\/li>\n<li>Explore how accounting education can foster trust, transparency, and ethical accountability.<\/li>\n<li>Provide practical and pedagogical examples illustrating how purpose-driven and public-interest thinking can be integrated into accounting education, drawing on multidimensional definitions of accounting (Carnegie et al., 2021; Carnegie et al., 2024b).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0099cc\">Moderator<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Susan Smith | University College London<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0099cc\">Panellists<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Garry Carnegie | RMIT University<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Ericka Costa | University of Trento<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Adriana Tiron | Tudor Babes-Bolyai University<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Clive Webb | Head of Business Management, Policy and Insights, ACCA<\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"color: #0099cc\">Schedule<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span lang=\"EN-AU\"><strong>Date | Time:<\/strong> Thursday 28 May 2026 09:00 \u2013 10:30<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span lang=\"EN-AU\"><strong>Location: <\/strong>RB 101 (Rajsk\u00e1 Building)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accounting Education at a Crossroads: Rethinking Purpose, Practice, and Pedagogy Internationally, accounting educators face persistent calls for reform. 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