{"title":"A Proposal for a Professional Doctorate in Accounting to Address the Accounting Faculty Shortage","authors":"Andrew Schiff, Gary Staples","doi":"10.35255/jbd1871.101006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35255/jbd1871.101006","url":null,"abstract":"“A combination of circumstances - the shortage of accounting faculty that is likely to increase sharply (given the average age of full-time tenured faculty) and a single pathway to a single terminal degree in accounting that cannot accommodate substantially more doctoral students - raises questions about how accounting educators will be able to fulfill their roles in teaching, research, and service in the future.” (Pathways Commission, 2012)\u0000\u0000This paper presents a proposal for a professional doctorate in accounting as a means of addressing the prevailing shortage of doctorally-qualified accounting faculty and several related issues within accounting higher education. Given recent pronouncements by the AACSB and the AAA and AICPA-sponsored Pathways Commission, the potential for such a degree program to help achieve these objectives appears promising. The nature and causes of the accounting faculty shortage, previous attempts to address this problem, and the role of professional experience are discussed first. This is followed by an overview of the professions, and of the ways in which professional doctorates have been implemented in law and medicine as prototypes for a professional doctorate in accounting. The paper concludes with a discussion of the benefits that can be achieved by implementing a professional doctorate in accounting.","PeriodicalId":188192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Disciplines","volume":"15 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140263227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forced abrupt transition of face-to-face courses to online: A case study","authors":"A. Ardalan, Roya K. Ardalan","doi":"10.35255/jbd1871.101005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35255/jbd1871.101005","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the case of a well-managed process of converting face-to-face courses to\u0000online courses in higher education in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. A case study\u0000approach is followed to demonstrate some of the actions taken to abruptly convert face-to-face\u0000courses to online. This case shows that while the process is chaotic and stressful, a well-managed\u0000conversion of course delivery method from face-to-face to online can be accomplished.\u0000This paper does not propose other alternatives for converting face-to-face courses to online in a\u0000short time. Other alternatives should be presented, and the alternatives should be compared to\u0000determine the preferred course of action relative to the higher education position and market.\u0000Following the processes presented in this paper results in a relatively smooth transition from\u0000face-to-face delivery method to online when it must happen in a very short time without major\u0000disruptions.\u0000Keywords: Information Technology, Course delivery method, Online course delivery","PeriodicalId":188192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Disciplines","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127781366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abrupt Conversion of Face-to-Face Courses to Online","authors":"A. Ardalan, Roya K. Ardalan, G. S. Rhiel","doi":"10.35255/jbd1871.101004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35255/jbd1871.101004","url":null,"abstract":"In special circumstances such as the one presented by the coronavirus universities must convert their face-to-face courses to online. This conversion is challenging for all universities, but extremely challenging for universities that offer all their courses face-to-face. This paper presents the major activities that a quick conversion from face-to-face courses to online courses should consider. This paper shows that higher education institutions can acquire the basic technology and be quickly trained to convert their face-to-face courses to online while trying to achieve the quality that is in line with the quality level defined in their organization’s strategy.","PeriodicalId":188192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Disciplines","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130400535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}