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Using A White-Collar Profession In Accounting Courses: Approaches To Addressing Diversity, William D. Samson, Cheryl L. Allen, Richard K. Fleischman, Ida B. Robinson-Backmon

Accounting Historians Journal

Accounting educators no doubt agree that diversity is an important and much neglected part of accounting education. They further recognize that it is difficult to incorporate this important topic into the accounting curriculum. This paper describes the efforts of various professors to expose business and accounting students to the evolution of diversity issues related to the accounting profession by using the book A White-Collar Profession [Hammond, 2002]. A White-Collar Profession: African-American CPAs Since 1921 is a seminal work which presents a history of the profession as it relates to African-American CPAs and documents the individual struggles of many of the …