IMM workshops in first year accounting: design and development

First year accounting subjects traditionally have focused on developing technical competence in the accounting process. Because this is both time-consuming and often very repetitive students can adopt a very mechanistic approach to learning without gaining any of the broader theoretical understandings necessary for the future years of the course. This paper describes the design, implementation and initial evaluations of interactive multimedia workshops in the first year program. These IMM workshops were designed to encourage students to take a deeper approach to learning the necessary technical processes within understandings of the broader theoretical frameworks.