In 2015, the editorial team of Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting (JETA) called for papers on cutting-edge technologies in the classroom. Among all the American Accounting Association (AAA) journals and various conferences, we are the first to call papers in a special section to provide an opportunity for accounting academics to publish “cool” technologies used in the classroom. We now proudly present five papers in this theme issue.
As the technology and innovation move business forward, the accounting industry and the business world in general demand changes in accounting education (PricewaterhouseCoopers [PwC] 2015) with information technology (IT) skills and knowledge (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International [AACSB] 2014) to prepare a new generation of accounting professionals. G. Coyne, E. Coyne, and Walker (2016) provide a timely update of accounting curricula for emerging technologies to meet the challenge. An architecture is constructed...
