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Fall 2008 By Anna C. McAleer and Kristin Wentzel, PhD Many college accounting programs emphasize the use of Excel in their undergraduate curricula because of the high demand within the profession for tech-savvy graduates capable of manipulating complex spreadsheets. At La Salle University, we recently moved away from a traditional, broad-based ...

By Susan C. Borkowski, PhD, Rose Marie L. Bukics, CPA, and Mary Jeanne Welsh, CPA, PhD Information technology (IT) and information systems are pervasive in today’s business environment. CPAs, therefore, have to understand IT processes and controls. What are accounting educators doing to prepare students as they enter an environment in which data ...