中国管理会计教育现状分析

管理会计师在企业中所扮演的角色日益重要,然而他们的职业发展能力则主要取决于他们在大学里所受的正规教育。本文用问卷调查方式研究中国管理会计教育的基本现状,以便提升中国管理会计的教学、研究与实际应用水平。     

论会计教育理念

会计教育中重"教"轻"育"是长期以来的重要问题之一,其主要原因在于对会计教育理解的狭窄和会计教育理念的模糊与混乱。本文从会计的经济性质、管理性质、文化性质、信号性质、哲学性质等论证入手,探讨了会计教育的含义,梳理了人们对会计教育理念关注的内容,提出了会计教育理念的概念及其内涵、外延,构建了会计教育理念的内容框架,分析了现行会计教育理念中的问题、误区及对策。     

改革开放30年，彰显中国会计本科教学与时俱进

中国改革开放30年,以全面推进素质教育作为会计基础教育改革和会计专业教育改革的重要方向。会计本科教学在教学目标、教学理念、教学方案、教学手段、教学方法和教学管理等方面与时俱进,逐步形成了特有的教学风格,有效提高了本科教育质量。     

A factor analysis on knowledge and skill components of accounting education: Chinese case

Accounting education reform is being called upon by the profession and business communities in many countries under new business environment with high-tech production, economic globalization and intensified market competition. This study, by applying the factor analysis research method, has empirically-developed 6 latent constructs about the desirable knowledge and skill components that should be emphasized in accounting education in order to meet the challenges stemming from the changing business environment, i.e., business/management skills, business/management knowledge, core accounting knowledge, personal characteristics, general knowledge, and basic techniques. The structural order of, or the interrelationship among, these six dimensions of the knowledge and skill requirements in accounting education is also elaborated based on the analysis of factor loading results. The findings of this study should assist various groups of stakeholder (e.g., accounting practitioners, educators and students) to gain a better understanding of needed changes in accounting education and provide input for redesigning accounting curriculum to promote a smooth progress of accounting education reform in China and other countries.     

Broadening management accounting education: more theory,more practicality ∗

There are two widespread beliefs among management accountants. Management accounting should be practical, and education for doing the job the management accountant actually does should include topics which would require extensive training in theory. The two beliefs are not inconsistent. Management accounting education starting from theory and moving to its application could be far more practical than education without theory in applying predefined techniques.     

论中国会计改革三十年

三十年的会计改革是灿烂辉煌的历史里程,是中国,也是世界会计发展史上的里程碑。本文主要从会计思想、理论与教育三方面,研究三十年会计改革的伟大成就,归纳它的基本历史经验,并指出未来的会计改革,要坚持科学发展观,把会计改革的一个重要方面,放到解决农业经济管理问题与加强农业财务、农业会计管理上去,以服务深化农村产权制度改革。     

论高校内部会计控制

改革开放以来,我国经济迅速发展,各行业管理水平不断提高,相应地开始对内部控制提出要求。我国高校内部会计控制是与企业内部控制同步发展起来的,虽然起步比较晚,但其在推动高等教育发展,促进教育体制改革方面起了非常重要的作用。目前,我国的高等教育模式正从由政府直接管理向由政府宏观管理、学校面向社会自主办学过渡,这种模式转变所引起的高校财务管理环境变化,使高校内部控制的地位和作用越来越重要。故本文从高校内部会计控制的发展,重要性及加强措施方面对其进行了新的论述。     

Integration of financial and management accounting systems: The mediating influence of a consistent financial language on controllership effectiveness

Two fundamental options exist for management accounting system (MAS) design: Either financial records can be used as a database for management accounting (integrated accounting system design), or the MAS can be based upon a separate system, i.e., a third set of books beside financial and tax accounting records. Since the 1990s, many German-speaking firms have changed from the second to the first option, which has instigated a highly controversial debate.Our paper contributes to this debate by empirically analyzing (1) whether the integration of financial and management accounting has a positive impact on controllership effectiveness, and (2) what causal inferences relate both variables. We use structural equation modelling for a sample of 149 dyads surveyed from German top 1500 firms. We identify no significant effect of the technical aspects of MAS integration, but a fully mediating influence of a consistent financial language on controllership effectiveness. Our results thus imply that consistency with financial reporting is an important property of MAS design from management's point of view.     

高校教育成本核算方法比较研究

高校教育成本核算是高校教育成本管理的核心,但目前高校教育成本核算在实践中举步维艰。本文通过将高校教育成本核算方法进行比较研究,提出了将战略成本管理思想初步应用于高校教育成本核算中的新思路。     

Educational standards for management accountants: A critical need

The last five years have seen the development of a trend that may be characterized as “the professionalization of accounting education”. One major element of this movement has been the development of a formal recommended curriculum for students planning a career in public accounting. However, a similar proposed curriculum for management accounting students has not resulted. Although the management accounting profession has made great advances during the past few years, a single formal recommended curriculum has not been developed.This article expresses concern over the lack of such a curriculum, and urges the management accounting arm of the profession to join in developing a single recommended academic curriculum for management accountants.     

Chambers as Educator and Mentor

Adopting a personal tone, this article explores Ray Chambers' impact on accounting and management education and through that his impact on accounting thought and practice. As mentor and colleague for over a quarter of a century, Chambers left many wonderful impressions, some of which are described here. The article describes some of the influences on the innovations and approaches of a great teacher. Familial and early working life experiences are shown to have greatly influenced his views on accounting, finance and management, and hence his innovations in accounting and management education at both the Sydney Technical College and the University of Sydney. His research, writings and teachings continually stressed the need to apply common sense to common experience. The article concludes by noting Chambers' perennial pursuit of seeking evidence to test his ideal solution to eradicate the follies and infelicities that plagued then (and still plague today) accounting thought and practice. Chambers regarded having such an ideal as the essence of being a researcher.     

Management accounting: Are new techniques making in-roads with practitioners?

Despite numerous criticisms and the examples of specific companies changing to a particular technique, there are few empirical studies providing evidence of the status of management accounting practice. The primary purpose of this study was to examine trends in the adoption of the new managerial accounting techniques by manufacturing firms. Evidence of changes in the direction of managerial accounting would have significant future implication regarding the direction of management accounting education and of accounting theory. The results of this study indicate that new techniques are being adopted while traditional systems are being maintained, suggesting that a broadening of innovations in management accounting may require the development of a new and separate course dealing strictly with these innovative techniques in the transition to world-class manufacturing.     

成本管理会计教学改革的路径选择

成本管理会计作为一门新兴的会计学科,伴随着西方各种管理理论的产生、科技进步和现代化管理水平的提高而形成和发展.成本管理会计纳入我国高校教学体系,尽管时间不长,已经展现其重要意义,但教学实践中仍然存在一些问题.为更好的适应高校为社会培养合格应用型人才的目标,探讨成本管理会计教学模式的改革,势在必行.     

Enhancing student engagement in large management accounting lectures

The education literature suggests a student-focused teaching strategy to improve students’ engagement in a lecture. However, in traditional accounting lectures students take the role of passive and anonymous recipients of knowledge. This paper reports on two cycles of an action research project, developing and refining a blended learning model, with the purpose of enhancing students’ engagement in the lectures of a large management accounting course. Results of our study find that engagement was enhanced with the implementation of this model. This study contributes to the accounting education literature through reporting evidence from action research and the effective implementation of a blended learning model that accounting educators can use.     

Management accounting practices in Europe: a perspective from the States

I provide a perspective from the States on four questions primarily based on information inManagement Accounting: European Perspectivesedited by Al Bhimani (1996). First, seven factors are identified as having shaped management accounting practices in European nations—academics, education, government, professional associations, consultants, technology, and the inter-nation transfer of information. Second, evidence supports the view that, across European nations, more changes are occurring in management accounting practice terminology and techniques than in the purposes and styles of using management accounting techniques. Third, evidence indicates that there is convergence across European nations in management accounting practices, especially in terminology and techniques, but less convergence in the purposes and styles of using techniques. Fourth, management accounting practices in European nations, particularly terminology and techniques, is converging on a global management accounting practice model. I propose that management accounting practices—particularly terminology and techniques—is converging across nations (at least for those firms that are affected by the global economy)anddiverging across industries both within and between nations.     

高校教育成本的核算与控制

基于高校教育成本核算的现状,采用作业成本法对高校教育成本的核算和控制,有利于提高高校管理水平,有效控制办学成本,提高经费使用效益;有利于建立公平合理的教育成本分担机制,促进高等教育健康发展。     

培训机构薪酬管理研究——以Y会计培训机构为例

随着经济新时代的来临,我国教育培训机构如雨后春笋般大量涌现。然而,发展的过程中,教育培训机构面临着人才流失严重和员工工作积极性不高的窘境。本文以Y会计培训机构为例,通过德尔菲法、PEST分析法、问卷调查法和发展能力分析对该机构薪酬管理问题进行深入研究。研究发现,企业薪酬结构设置不合理、薪酬激励机制不科学和非经济性薪酬不重视是Y会计培训机构薪酬管理方面存在的主要问题,据此提出了三点建议。期望本研究能够为新时代背景下会计培训机构的发展提供一定的借鉴作用。     

Pedagogical cases in the strategic development of management accounting systems

Discussion of the ‘lost relevance’ of management accounting and the ‘gap’ between theory and practice has focused the criticism that management accounting education is built round a set of techniques applied in simplified settings. One reason for this may be the scarcity of case studies, discussing management accounting practices, which may be adopted in classroom situations. The recent promotion of ABC, throughput accounting, just-in-time (JIT) methods and performance measures to support modern manufacturing provide additional educational challenges relating to the integration of these into the accounting curriculum. There is a danger that these may also be developed as other techniques to be learned in isolated situations rather than to be applied selectively by organizations in appropriate situations. This paper offers two case studies which support class discussion of accounting requirements within a modern manufacturing and commercial environment. The cases emphasize that any one technique is inappropriate to all situations. They force examination of manufacturing and marketing policy and strategy in the development of appropriate management accounting information. The authors' experiences of using the case studies is evaluated, to determine the strengths and weaknesses of using the non-numerical cases as a basis for class discussion of contextual factors in accounting system design.     

Back to the Future: The Broadening Accounting Trajectory

Contemporary accounting practice has shown signs of a broadening scope of activities being undertaken both from within and as a service provided to organizations. Based upon a historiographic linking of past and present, this paper examines the past 100 years of broadening professional practice in the discipline as a basis for offering a presentist examination and critique of contemporary accounting education and research opportunities. The scope of what constitutes accounting work is found to have been expanding for over 100 years, becoming increasingly at variance with accountants’ traditional beancounter image. Recent professional accounting association investigations reveal an array of contemporary environmental factors that have accelerated this broadening of the profession’s scope into financial planning, assurance services, strategic, risk, knowledge and change management, and management advisory services. This has called for an expanded accounting skills base which has gained momentum towards the end of the 20^th century. The elements of some of these developing areas of professional work and their implications for contemporary and future education and research are examined.     

You Cannot Judge a Book by Its Cover: The Problems with Journal Rankings

Abstract

Journal rankings lists have impacted and are impacting accounting educators and accounting education researchers around the world. Nowhere is the impact positive. It ranges from slight constraints on academic freedom to admonition, censure, reduced research allowances, non-promotion, non-short-listing for jobs, increased teaching loads, and re-designation as a non-researcher, all because the chosen research specialism of someone who was vocationally motivated to become a teacher of accounting is, ironically, accounting education. University managers believe that these journal ranking lists show that accounting faculty publish top-quality research on accounting regulation, financial markets, business finance, auditing, international accounting, management accounting, taxation, accounting in society, and more, but not on what they do in their ‘day job’ – teaching accounting. These same managers also believe that the journal ranking lists indicate that accounting faculty do not publish top-quality research in accounting history and accounting systems. And they also believe that journal ranking lists show that accounting faculty write top-quality research in education, history, and systems, but only if they publish it in specialist journals that do not have the word ‘accounting’ in their title, or in mainstream journals that do. Tarring everyone with the same brush because of the journal in which they publish is inequitable. We would not allow it in other walks of life. It is time the discrimination ended.