According to an old African proverb, “If you want to go quickly, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.” A little less than two years ago, a diverse group of accounting educators and practitioners gathered, under the joint auspices of the American Accounting Association and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, to begin to craft a bold vision for the future of accounting education. The report of the Accounting Pathways Commission, summarized here, certainly does not represent the culmination of this work; it is rather a beginning. Much work remains. The much more challenging task of implementation, securing the future of our discipline as a learned profession, and actually “going far,” will require that we—accounting educators and practitioners—“go together” on this journey. It is our dream that together we will undertake the genuinely monumental effort that will be required of us as we implement the strategies...
