Question

The role of accounting education is a challenging question. Is the purpose of university accounting education to prepare students for professional practice? Or is the role of university accounting education to understand accounting?

Should the focus be conceptual, contextual or technical? Or a mix of all.

From you own work experience in accounting, what is the relationship between the technical or conceptual education you have experienced and the practice of accounting?

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Here,the university education is not about making students understanding accounting but to prepare students for professional practice. Yes of course their responsibility starts with teaching all the concepts of accounting in way that they understand but most of the students learn accounting in their collage studies only.Hence,the university must teach the concepts in such a way that students not only understand them but also use them in their professional practice as mere book knowledge won't make them succeed in the world.

The focus should be on all of them as the student must understand the concept correctly to apply them ,then he must be able to relate the context to know where to apply and then he must be technically strong to utilize it in a better way.

In my work,almost every day I find a relationship between conceptual and technical education as an Auditor because I go across various accounts where I must know the concept that they apply and technically I have to see whether it is right to do that or not.