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Information technology in the British and Irish undergraduate accounting degrees

Amr Kotb, Magdy Abdel-Kader, Amir Allam, Hussein Halabi Orcid Logo, Ellie Franklin

Accounting Education, Pages: 1 - 20

Swansea University Author: Hussein Halabi Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/09639284.2019.1588135

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Using an online questionnaire and a series of semi-structured interviews, this study seeks the perceptions ofaccounting educators and professional accounting bodies in the UK and Ireland on the status quo of technologicaldevelopments within accounting curricula and the factors influencing this statu...

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Published in: Accounting Education
ISSN: 0963-9284 1468-4489
Published: 2019
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