Happy Thanksgiving and hope everyone's semester is wrapping up well.
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Sitting in some conferences recently, the discussion has me thinking about the story we tell as a discipline. Certainly, a big part of the well-documented pipeline issues in the discipline is that we have been telling a poor story. I see this from two angles. First, is so many accountants telling a story that the only path to be an accountant is the CPA/public accounting track. I think it alienates so many students who don't aspire to start their career in audit or tax.
In contrast, I also think we tell a poor story being overly confrontational from the cost/managerial side of the discipline. We've critiqued the discipline for not being adequate business partners and stuck in the past for decades. The critique does not seem to have moved the needle all that much.
My interest here is not to critique the validity of either story, but to wonder, is…
Gary Cokins
Nov 15
JP ... All good questions. I am not an academic faculty member or have a PhD, but I have opinions about what you wrote. I am a practitioner.
I am unsure what a "cohesive story of the discipline" should be. But what I know from my career (e.g., a manufacturing division financial controller and 30+ years consulting with Deloitte, KPMG, EDS, and SAS) is that management accounting is fun and rewarding.
I enjoyed fulfillment by providing executives, line managers, and employee teams with useful information for the insights to make better decisions. As a management accountant one can "bring value" to an organization and facilitate improving their organization's operational and financial performance. That fulfillment is rewarding and builds self-esteem. This message should be shared with students. ... Gary ... Gary Cokins
Lot of ideas for post today but ultimately decided on a question, what would you like to see out of this IG? None of the IGs are as active as we'd like. Intuitively, if they were meeting a need, they'd see more engagement. What is the need you'd like to see met (or at least engaged)?
For myself, I'd like to see a forum where ideas are put forth and debated. They don't have to be, ideally wouldn't be, fully-formed theories or research questions, but raw ideas that could be shaped and developed through our discussion here.
Also, could certainly entertain discussion of ideas for improving classroom instruction. Case method teaching? What topics should/should not (I'm personally toying with the notion of dropping FIFO Process Costing from my Cost Accounting class). Maybe share some instructional tools.
What would you like out of this IG? What are your ideas?
Christian FOURNIER
Nov 01
Another subject could be the VUCA concept and how to define the VUCA profile of a company.
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More of a fun thought today. Taking inspiration from Raef's post about the "invisible gorilla", which was a favorite example in some psyche courses I took in my doctoral program (minor area since I'm more of a behavioral researcher). What is your favorite classroom illustration/example/story and what topic do you use it to illustrate?
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JP .... Did you mean "wrapping" like for Christmas presents? (LOL)