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    This document discusses the changing role of accountants from beancounters to business advisors and the implications for accounting education. It argues that accounting education needs to move from traditional chalk-and-talk lectures to more interactive digital methods like games and spreadsheet simulations. Games can facilitate deeper learning through interactivity but can be difficult and expensive to create. Spreadsheet simulations provide many of the same benefits of games in a more cost-effective way by allowing students to interact with accounting concepts. The document provides examples of how spreadsheets could simulate audit risk and energy efficiency scenarios.

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    Chalk and Talk To Click and Think: The Promise of and Path To Digital Interactivity in Accounting Education

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    Chalk and talk to click and think

    The promise of and path to digital interactivity in accounting education

    ICEEBA, May 2021

    A/Prof James Hazelton

    Department of Accounting and


    Corporate Governance
    Macquarie University

    james.hazelton@mq.edu.au
    +61 2 9850 8486
    The accountant

    Preparing The ecstasy The agony


    for battle of victory of defeat
    “The” computer
    The changing role of accountants

    From To

    Beancounter Business advisor

    ‘Soft’ non-technical
    ‘Hard’ technical skills skills

    Excel Powerpoint
    The changing role of accountants

    From To

    Beancounter Business advisor

    ‘Soft’ non-technical
    ‘Hard’ technical skills skills

    Excel Powerpoint
    The changing role of accountants

    From To

    Beancounter Business advisor

    Analysis and
    Mechanical skills communication skills

    Excel Powerpoint
    Implications for education
    From chalk and talk to . . .

    Dr Cash
    Cr Sales
    Implications for education
    From chalk and talk to . . . click and think?
    Three big Ideas in games –
    1: Interactivity
    Example: The first Apple Mac calculator
    Three big Ideas in games –
    2: ‘Fun’ can be many things
    Three big Ideas in games –
    3: Beware chocolate coated
    broccoli!
    Bridging the chasm . . .
    Bridging the chasm . . .
    Spreadsheets!
    Example 1:
    Audit Risk
    Example 2:
    Energy Efficiency
    Conclusions

    ‘Serious’ games can facilitate deeper


    learning . . .
    . . . but creating games can be difficult and
    expensive

    Spreadsheet-based simulations can be an


    effective means of providing many of the
    benefits, whilst avoiding many of the costs

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