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Accounting Administrator Perceptions Of Impediments To Seeking Aacsb Accounting Accreditation, Michael E. Bitter, Laurie J. Henry
Accounting Administrator Perceptions Of Impediments To Seeking Aacsb Accounting Accreditation, Michael E. Bitter, Laurie J. Henry
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As of April, 2012, only 168 U.S. institutions had attained and maintained AACSB accounting accreditation. Our objective was to determine why more U.S. institutions have chosen not to pursue AACSB accounting accreditation by identifying accreditation-related issues that are perceived to reduce an institution’s interest in seeking and/or ability to attain it.
Surveys were returned by 103 of the 303 accounting program administrators at U.S. institutions with AACSB business (but not accounting) accreditation. The 86 respondents from units not pursing accounting accreditation neither agreed nor disagreed attainment of accounting accreditation would be valued by their institution’s internal constituencies or would enhance …