This book presents the views of accounting educators, accounting education policy-makers, and accounting practitioners from across the world on the challenging topic of liberalising the accounting curriculum within university education. Accounting is a relatively new subject within universities and has been absorbed into a high level of education without any real attempt to do so within the traditional ethos of a liberal arts education.

Introduction Alan Sangster and Richard M. S. Wilson Part I: The Lister Forum 1. A Role for the Compulsory Study of Literature in Accounting Education Roger J Lister 2. Commentary: A Role for the Compulsory Study of Literature in Accounting Education Melvin Berg 3. Will Compelled Study of Literary Classics Engender Enrichment, Creativity, Curiosity, and Romance in Accounting Students? Russell J Craig 4. Commentary: A Role for the Compulsory Study of Literature in Accounting Education Lisa Evans and Ian Fraser 5. Commentary: A Role for the Compulsory Study of Literature in Accounting Education Bryan Howieson 6. Commentary: A Role for the Compulsory Study of Literature in Accounting Education Robert Jelly 7. Commentary: A Role for the Compulsory Study of Literature in Accounting Education Fawzi Laswad 8. Commentary: A Role for the Compulsory Study of Literature in Accounting Education Barihan A. Nabil 9. Deriving Four Lessons for Accounting Educators Fred Phillips 10. Making our Students More 'Fit for Purpose' Alan Sangster 11. Commentary: A Role for the Compulsory Study of Literature in Accounting Education Henry Saville 12. Commentary: A Role for the Compulsory Study of Literature in Accounting Education Peter Scott 13. Rejoinder to Commentaries on A Role for the Compulsory Study of Literature in Accounting Education Roger J Lister Part II: Liberalising the Accounting Curriculum in University Education 14. Black Swan and the Corn Maiden Jesse Dillard and Mary Ann Reynolds 15. Revitalizing Accounting Education: a Highly Applied Liberal Arts Approach Timothy J Fogarty 16. University Accounting Curricula: The Perceptions of an Alumni Group Shirley Carr, Frances Chua and Hector Perera 17. Impact of an Ethics Presentation Used in the USA and Adapted for Italy Gheula Canarutto, Katherine T Smith and L.Murphy Smith 18. Incorporating Sustainability into Accounting Curricula: Lessons Learnt From an Action Research Study James Hazelton and Matthew Haigh 19. Contextualising the Intermediate Financial Accounting Courses in the Global Financial Crisis Robert Bloom and Mariah Webinger