Professor Alan Sangster
BA (Business Studies), MSc (Op. Res.), PhD (Acc. Ed.), Cert. TESOL, CA
Chair in Accounting History
- About
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- Email Address
- alan.sangster@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
MacRobert 809
- School/Department
- Business School
External Memberships
Editor-in-Chief, Accounting Education (Routledge)
Chair, BAFA Accounting History SIG
Trustee of The Academy of Accounting Historians
- Research
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Research Overview
Accounting History
Business History
Current Research
Accounting, business practice, and business education in the Medieval, early modern, and modern periods (c.1200-1900)
Luca Pacioli
- Publications
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Time to reboot accounting history – evidence from scholarship on double entry
Accounting HistoryContributions to Journals: ArticlesThe diffusion of double entry bookkeeping before 1800 - establishing a new research agenda
Accounting Historians JournalContributions to Journals: ArticlesUnethical Peer Review
Accounting Historians Journal, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 95-109Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2308/AAHJ-2023-029
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The emergence of double entry bookkeeping
Economic History ReviewContributions to Journals: ArticlesBookkeeping, but not for profit: A special form of double entry in a 16th century Venetian charity
British Accounting Review, vol. 55, no. 5, 101175Contributions to Journals: Articles'Going digital': Its place in research into the history of modern accounting
Accounting HistoryContributions to Journals: ArticlesAccounting and accountability practices in the obraje of San Ildefonso of Quito: An eighteenth century productive proto-capitalist model
Accounting History, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 58-89Contributions to Journals: ArticlesVale Lúcia Lima Rodrigues
Accounting History, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 5-8Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/10323732231153417
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Avoiding Whig interpretations in historical research: an illustrative case study
Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 1402-1430Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-10-2020-4977
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Lost in translation: Pacioli’s de computis et scripturis
Accounting History, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 311-342Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Business Needs that Drove the Emergence of Double Entry: In Defense of Pacioli, again … It is Time to Remove Those Dark Glasses
Accounting Historians Journal, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 93-109Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2308/AAHJ-2021-022
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Basil yamey (1919–2020): A reflection on his contribution to accounting history
Accounting Historians Journal, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 67-70Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2308/AAHJ-2020-024
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The Life and Works of Luca Pacioli (1446/7‒1517), Humanist Educator
Abacus, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 126-152Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/abac.12218
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Luca Pacioli and his art
De Computis, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 9-27Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAccounting education and ethics in the 15th century
Accounting Ethics Education: Teaching Virtues and Values. 1st edition. Taylor and Francis AS, pp. 3-30, 28 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429321597-2
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Manzoni’s sixteenth-century ‘Quaderno Doppio’: The evolution of accounting education towards modern times
Accounting History, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 580-601Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1032373220942330
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/15089/1/Mari_etal_AH_Manzoni_AAM.pdf
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Impact of Research Assessment Exercises on Research Approaches and Foci of Accounting Disciplines in Australia
Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 1277-1302Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMonopolistic professional closure, family credentials and examination procedures in the Venetian College of Accountants (16th-17th century)
Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 965-989Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe formation and use of a profit reserve at the end of the fourteenth century
Accounting History, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 69-88Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1032373219870316
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Insights into accounting education in a COVID-19 world
Accounting Education, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 431-562Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAccounting as a tool of state ideology to control captive workers from a House of Correction
Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 285-308Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAccounting as a tool of State governance: The tutelage system of ‘Free Africans’ in Brazil between 1818 and 1864
Accounting History, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 383-401Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1032373218809519
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De Raphaeli: Venetian double entry bookkeeping in 1475
Lomax Press, Stirling. 150 pagesBooks and Reports: Scholarly EditionsPacioli's lens: God, humanism, Euclid, and the rhetoric of double entry
Accounting review, vol. 93, no. 2, pp. 299-314Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2308/accr-51850
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Earnings management, Ultra vires borrowing, and auditing of a scottish brewery 1884–1927
Accounting Historians Journal, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 1-15Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2308/aahj-10542
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Accounting and the state: The Portuguese-Brazilian empire
The Italian and Iberian Influence in Accounting History: The Imperative of Power. Bigoni, M., Funnell, W. (eds.). Taylor and Francis AS, pp. 259-283, 25 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315164724
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Mapping forensic accounting in the UK
Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, vol. 28, pp. 43-56Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intaccaudtax.2016.12.004
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Strategic manoeuvres and impression management: communication approaches in the case of a crisis event
Business history, vol. 58, no. 6, pp. 903-924Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2015.1128896
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The Genesis of Double Entry Bookkeeping
Accounting review, vol. 91, no. 1, pp. 299-315Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2308/accr-51115
The earliest known treatise on double entry bookkeeping by Marino de Raphaeli
Accounting Historians Journal, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 1-33Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2308/0148-4184.42.2.1
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Jacob Roll: The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Making and Breaking of Nations, Allen Lane, Penguin Books Ltd: London, 2014, 276 + xvii pp: ISBN: 9781846146411
Accounting Historians Journal, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 139-156Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2308/0148-4184.42.1.139
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The Impact of Accounting Education Research
Accounting Education, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 423-444Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09639284.2015.1091740
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You Cannot Judge a Book by Its Cover: The Problems with Journal Rankings
Accounting Education, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 175-186Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09639284.2015.1055929
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Libr. XV: Cotrugli and de Raphaeli on business and bookkeeping in the Renaissance
Lomax Press, Stirling. 212 pagesBooks and Reports: Scholarly EditionsPublishing characteristics, geographic dispersion and research traditions of recent international accounting education research
British Accounting Review, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 264-280Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2013.11.003
Emerging areas within the accounting curriculum
The Routledge Companion to Accounting Education. Wilson, R. M. (ed.). 1st edition. Routledge, pp. 314-343, 31 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersUsing Pacioli's pedagogy and medieval text in today's introductory accounting course
Journal of Accounting Education, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 16-35Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccedu.2013.12.001
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Pacioli's Example Entries-a Conundrum Resolved?
Abacus, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 93-106Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6281.2012.00372.x
E-business internal audit: The elephant is still in the room!
Journal of Applied Accounting Research, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 43-63Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JAAR-10-2012-0072
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Factors that catalyse, facilitate and motivate the decision to implement activity-based costing in Jordanian industrial companies
Journal of Applied Accounting Research, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 18-36Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/09675421311282522
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Teaching IFRS in the U.K.: Contrasting experiences from both sides of the university divide
Issues in Accounting Education, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 291-307Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2308/iace-50357
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Professional Accounting Body Affiliation: Shifting Priorities in the Transition from Student to Practitioner
Accounting Education, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 605-617Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09639284.2013.847324
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The role of the state in the development of accounting in the Portuguese-Brazilian Empire, 1750-1822
Accounting History Review, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 161-184Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21552851.2013.803758
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Locating the source of pacioli's bookkeeping treatise
Accounting Historians Journal, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 97-110Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2308/0148-4184.39.2.97
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Pacioli’s forgotten book: The Merchant's Ricordanze
Accounting Historians Journal, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 27-44Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2308/0148-4184.39.2.27
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'Public-private partnerships': The Portuguese General Company of Pernambuco and Paraiba (1759)
Business history, vol. 54, no. 7, pp. 1142-1165Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2012.692079
The ABS Journal Quality Guide: A Personal View
Accounting Education, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 575-580Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09639284.2011.621660
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The implementation of management accounting innovations within the Jordanian industrial sector: The role of supply-side factors
European Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Sciences, no. 35, pp. 72-85Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
The diffusion of activity-based costing in Jordanian industrial companies
Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 180-200Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/11766091111137573
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In defense of Pacioli
Accounting Historians Journal, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 105-124Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2308/0148-4184.38.2.105
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Luca Pacioli: The father of accounting education
Accounting Education, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 423-438Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09639284.2010.501955
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Liberalising the accounting curriculum
Accounting Education, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 323-327Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09639284.2010.501674
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Making our students more 'fit for purpose': A commentary on 'a role for the compulsory study of literature in accounting education'
Accounting Education, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 373-376Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09639280903285847
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Using accounting history and Luca Pacioli to put relevance back into the teaching of double entry
Accounting, Business and Financial History, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 23-39Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09585200903504215
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The ERA: A Brave New World of Accountability for Australian University Accounting Schools
Australian Accounting Review, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 24-37Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1835-2561.2010.00078.x
AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING (ABC) SYSTEMS WITHIN THE JORDANIAN INDUSTRIAL SECTOR: CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS AND BARRIERS TO ABC IMPLEMENTATION
ACCOUNTING IN EMERGING ECONOMIES. Tsamenyi, M., Uddin, S. (eds.). Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. 229-263, 35 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-3563(2009)0000009011
Exporting the RAE: adoption of similar practices in Australia and New Zealand
Asian Review of Accounting, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 115-135Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/13217340910975260
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Advice for Management Accountants in ERP Systems: Implementation, Use and Post-implementation Issues
Management Accounting in Enterprise Resource Planning Systems. CHARTERED INST MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANTS, pp. 95-101, 7 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-1-85617-679-8.00007-2
Background to the Study and Review of Prior Research
Management Accounting in Enterprise Resource Planning Systems. CHARTERED INST MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANTS, pp. 5-12, 8 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-1-85617-679-8.00002-3
Management Accounting in Enterprise Resource Planning Systems Introduction
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Forewords and PostscriptsManagement Accounting in Enterprise Resource Planning Systems Summary and Conclusions
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Forewords and Postscripts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-1-85617-679-8.00009-6
Research Methodology
Management Accounting in Enterprise Resource Planning Systems. CHARTERED INST MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANTS, pp. 13-88, 76 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-1-85617-679-8.00003-5
The Impact of ERP Systems on Management Accountants and Their Work
Management Accounting in Enterprise Resource Planning Systems. CHARTERED INST MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANTS, pp. 103-115, 13 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-1-85617-679-8.00008-4
The Motivations for ERP Deployment
Management Accounting in Enterprise Resource Planning Systems. CHARTERED INST MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANTS, pp. 89-91, 3 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-1-85617-679-8.00005-9
The Role of Management Accountants in the ERP System Implementation Process
Management Accounting in Enterprise Resource Planning Systems. CHARTERED INST MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANTS, pp. 93-94, 2 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-1-85617-679-8.00006-0
Pacioli and humanism: Pitching the text in Summa Arithmetica
Accounting History, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 183-206Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1032373207088178
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The market for Luca Pacioli’s Summa Arithmetica
Accounting Historians Journal, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 111-134Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2308/0148-4184.35.1.111
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The printing of pacioli’s summa in 1494: How many copies were printed?
Accounting Historians Journal, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 125-145Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2308/0148-4184.34.1.125
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Translating theory into practice: Facilitating work-based learning through IT
Innovations in Education and Teaching International, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 50-58Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/135580000362089
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The Perrow framework and the selection of management accounting tasks for expert system development
New Review of Applied Expert Systems and Emerging Technologies, vol. 5, pp. 129-139Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
The relationship between information technology and corporate financial reporting
Information Technology & People, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 11-30Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/09593849710166138
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Using the world wide web in accounting research: A huge step forward or a new constraint?
British Accounting Review, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 395-407Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1006/bare.1997.0058
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Strategy and impacts of expert systems for bank lending
Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 455-461Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0957-4174(96)00061-9
Editorial Comment: The integration of expert systems within the accounting curriculum
Accounting Education, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 211-216Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09639289500000025
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The bank of Scotland's COMPASS-The future of bank lending?
Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 457-468Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0957-4174(95)00016-X
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The bank of Scotland's lending adviser expert system, COMPASS
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/CAIA.1995.378793
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AI Supply and Demand Agents on the WWW
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The adoption of IT in management accounting: The expert systems experience
Journal of Information Technology, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 159-169Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/jit.1994.16
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How well do accountancy students understand a set of accounts?
Accounting Education, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 53-70Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09639289300000005
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CAPITAL INVESTMENT APPRAISAL TECHNIQUES: A SURVEY OF CURRENT USAGE
Journal of business finance & accounting, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 307-332Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5957.1993.tb00258.x
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Computer-based instruction in accounting education
Accounting Education, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 13-32Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09639289200000003
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Computer‐based learning in UK accounting education: to support or to supplant?
British Journal of Educational Technology, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 136-138Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8535.1992.tb00319.x
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The automation of accounting practice
Journal of Information Technology, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 65-75Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/jit.1992.11
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Knowledge-based learning within the accounting curriculum
The British Accounting Review, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 243-261Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0890-8389(91)90087-I
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