It is with great foresight and some irony that Issues in Accounting Education launched a Call for Papers entitled “Educating the Future Accounting Professional: Actively Shaping Professional Identities for a Rapidly Changing World” at the end of the last decade. For while it was clearly predicted that accounting education would need to sharpen its vision through the “20s”—as the world was experiencing significant change brought on by innovation, technologies, future of work, climate change, and resource depletion—it could not have predicted just how rapid that change was going to be.
The global Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has had an unprecedented impact on people across the globe. In fact, the pandemic is causing one of the largest disruptions to humanity we have experienced in the post-WWII era (McCalman 2020; Snowden 2020). The pandemic has and continues to place substantial pressure on economies, health systems, and global mobility, shifting the...
