Corporate Associate Partnerships: Practitioners’ Involvement in the Delivery of an Auditing Course Based on a Case-Study: A Teaching Resource

Abstract

This Teaching Resource outlines and reflects upon the use of an innovative corporate associate partnership scheme as part of the delivery of an Auditing course to final year undergraduate Accounting students at a university in the UK. It outlines the motivations behind a practitioner's involvement in teaching delivery, along with the formulation, design, and implementation of the scheme. The authors provide insights from their experiences so that others, at different institutions, may replicate or adapt such a scheme. This could be extended into subject areas other than Auditing, with the delivery pattern being altered as appropriate to suit the needs of other institutions and associated practitioners. The Teaching Resource provides reflections on the partnership from the students, the module tutor, and the associate involved in its delivery.

Key Words:

• Auditing
• practitioners
• corporate associate
• case-study

Acknowledgements

We would like to express our sincere thanks to Deborah Graham, Graham Darbourne, and Peter Glenton at Ryecroft Glenton, Chartered Accountants, Newcastle upon Tyne, for their enthusiasm, support, and participation which enabled the success of this scheme.

Support Material

Support material for this article can be accessed via the ‘Supplemental’ tab here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09639284.2013.875690.

Notes

1. At the time of the development of the partnership, all of the authors were employed at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, the host university outlined in the background information.