The EAA Education Committee is glad to announce a new education event titled: “Transforming learning and assessment in the AI-enabled world”.
When: December 2, 2024, 11:00-12:30 AM Brussels time
This workshop will be of interest to academics who have an interest in, and who are planning or currently engaging with and managing, AI in the classroom.
In this session, Vlad Porumb and Anne Stafford will introduce the innovations they have undertaken over the past two years on financial statement analysis with a large cohort of 500 students. As accounting educators, they seek to encourage their students to learn, be assessed and reflect upon how to use AI tools effectively, subject to appropriate controls. The session covers how they are experimenting with embedding the use of AI tools in the curriculum and what early findings are showing. To start with they focused on freely available generative AI tools such as ChatGPT 3.5, Gemini, Copilot and Claude, but more recently they have been experimenting with a bespoke AI tool. They will provide some preliminary results of their work to date.
Session Chairs: Joan Ballantine (Ulster University), Greg Stoner (University of Glasgow)
Presenters: Vlad-Andrei Porumb (Alliance Manchester Business School) and Anne Stafford (Alliance Manchester Business School)
Vlad-Andrei Porumb is an Associate Professor (Reader) of Accounting at the Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS), which he joined in 2021. Previously an assistant professor at the University of Groningen, he earned his Advanced Master at ESSEC Business School and his Ph.D. from Cergy-Paris University in 2016. Vlad’s research focuses on the impact of accounting, auditing, and banking regulations on earnings quality and debt contracting, as well as the space economy and audit partner characteristics. His work has been published in leading journals such as Contemporary Accounting Research, Strategic Management Journal, and European Accounting Review.
Anne Stafford is Professor of Accounting and Finance at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. Her experience includes five years working as a management accountant in industry and commerce, where she qualified as an accountant with the ACCA, and over thirty years lecturing in financial reporting, financial statement analysis and corporate governance to a wide range of undergraduate, postgraduate, professional and executive students. Her research interests include financial analysis of public policy and accountability, particularly in relation to Public-Private Partnerships. Her research has been published in leading journals such as Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Financial Accountability and Management and Abacus and cited in submissions to governments, the OECD and the World Bank.
Registrations are open here.
