PACE Academic IG

Guess these last couple weeks are provocative themes. Within higher ed there is great concern about accounting enrollments. Even greater is the debate about what the root cause of students lacking interest in accounting as a career path. I'm increasingly of the mindset that the programs and possibly the discipline have done themselves no favors by doubling down on topics of compliance and accounting code. The bookkeeping and compliance dimensions of the discipline are already on deck for automation (if they have not already been). Moreover, that is not where the value-add in our discipline is. The skills needed and expected of the next generation of accountants are much more analytical and forward-looking.