Transforming the introduction to managerial accounting course to improve student engagement, promote critical thinking, and reduce social inequality

Abstract

In this article, we discuss the many post-pandemic challenges facing Accounting instructors and demonstrate how we transform a traditional Managerial Accounting course to improve student engagement, promote critical thinking and life-long learning, and reduce social inequality. Our experiences of transformation can be applied to both in-person course offerings and virtual course offerings that use Zoom or similar platforms.

Keywords:

• Accounting education
• teaching innovation
• virtual learning

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

We have received all necessary ethics approvals from the Committee on the Protection of Human Subjects (COPHS) of SUNY Plattsburgh [Approval Number:1677]. The requirement for the subjects’ consent has been waived by the COPHS.