Accounting education in the post-COVID world: looking into the Mirror of Erised

Abstract

Using the pause created by the COVID-19 pandemic, this essay expands upon the reflections offered by many accounting academics across the world. Many questions about where we find ourselves in our on-going efforts to educate, and what will be possible going forward, exist. This essay considers several dimensions including the technology we use, what we attempt to teach and the organizations that we use. Student and faculty behavior reside in the center of what will become of accounting education at this critical junction. Few answers are certainties.