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The Cpa Exam Is Changing: Are The Professors Ready?, Michelle S. Freeman Jan 2018

The Cpa Exam Is Changing: Are The Professors Ready?, Michelle S. Freeman

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Accounting professors will now be accountable for teaching their students to think critically, analyze, and evaluate information. The pressure to change accounting higher education cannot be ignored with the new version of the CPA exam, released in April 2017, which now tests analysis and evaluation skills. Have the professors made the changes in their classrooms that will help their students to be successful with this format of questioning? This research seeks to find whether professors have indeed embraced pedagogy that will enhance students’ ability to develop higher order thinking skills. The study begins by explaining changes to the CPA exam. …