Beginning Accounting Students’ Access to and Familiarity with Spreadsheet Software

Gary Schneider; Carol M. Bruton

Beginning Accounting Students’ Access to and Familiarity with Spreadsheet Software

College of Business

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Abstract

This paper outlines the objectives of a survey that will yield information about beginning accounting students’ familiarity with spreadsheet software. After establishing the importance of this issue for accounting education in the principles courses, the paper examines previous research on the topic. The paper concludes with a synthesis of this research applied to the design of a survey form that will yield answers to two main questions. First, do beginning accounting students have access to computing resources that are sufficient to aid them in their study of accounting; and second, do these students have the knowledge and skills to use the computing resources that are available to them.

Original language	American English
State	Published - Apr 5 1996
Event	Proceedings of the Western Region Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute - Seattle Duration: Apr 5 1996 → …

Conference

Conference	Proceedings of the Western Region Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute
Period	4/5/96 → …

Keywords

beginning accounting students
spreadsheet software

Disciplines

Accounting
Technology and Innovation

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