RMIT Accounting Educators’ Conference 2023

RMIT Accounting Educators’ Conference 2023

Monday 27 November, 2023

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RMIT University’s School of Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain, together with CPA Australia, warmly invite you to attend the RMIT Accounting Educators’ Conference 2023.

RMIT has a proud history of hosting this annual event for fourteen consecutive years. The conference welcomes the exchange of ideas and information about research, education, projects, practice and policies.

Held Monday 27 November 2023, the AEC conference will feature a keynote address, a panel of guest speakers and parallel sessions with accounting and education scholars. The conference provides a forum for sharing and shaping ideas, insight, and discussion on accounting education and related research that support the underlying theme of the conference.

The RMIT Accounting Educators’ Conference provides participants with the opportunity to:

Explore

Explore the latest research developments in accounting education

Debate

Debate the future of accounting education

Learn

Learn from the experience of others

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The 2023 RMIT Accounting Educators’ Conference is proudly sponsored by CPA Australia

Theme

The theme of the RMIT Accounting Educators’ Conference 2023 is “Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Curriculum Change in Accounting Education".

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has fundamentally changed the way organisations and societies operate and is now at the forefront of business agendas (Saidulu & Sasikala, 2023). Data analytics and knowledge management are rapidly becoming a cornerstone of contemporary accounting operations, enabling improved efficiency, increased reach and connectedness, and empowering accounting professionals to play a broader and more strategic role (Al-Htaybat et al., 2018; Tharapos, 2022). AI has generated enormous opportunities for the profession. However, its associated risks and challenges need to be carefully managed (Davern et al., 2019). While organisations have heavily invested in digital technologies, their presence in accounting education curricula is scant and ad hoc, leaving students ill-equipped for their use (Damerji & Salimi, 2021).

Accounting educators urgently need to rethink their offerings to address the demands of industry and practice (Kend & Nguyen, 2020; Tharapos, 2022). Hence, accounting educators need to discuss AI's impact on their teaching (Wood et al., 2023). AI-based tools present educators with challenges and opportunities, and educators need to understand both. While these tools may lead to increased plagiarism and cheating, they may also offer educators opportunities to re-evaluate their assessment strategies and create more profound and significant student learning experiences. Ultimately, educators need to ensure that graduates are aware of how to use AI responsibly and ethically.

Call for papers

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

  • Using AI to create content and design assessment;
  • Ethical and governance issues associated with using AI;
  • Opportunities, challenges and lessons learnt in using AI in accounting education;
  • Integrating and embedding AI in accounting education curriculum;
  • Best practice in the use of AI for student learning and engagement;
  • Strategies for maintaining currency with AI in an educational context;
  • Is AI the new fad? If so, what’s next? Or is AI here to stay?;
  • AI and the resultant impact on academic workload; and
  • Developing AI-related short courses or micro-credentials.


Extended abstracts addressing the broad theme of the Conference should include the following:

  • Project Title
  • Authors and affiliations
  • Purpose of the study
  • Key research questions
  • Key findings
  • Contribution of the study
  • Maximum length: 3 pages
     

Kindly email extended abstracts and/or full papers (if available), as an attachment using the subject line 'AEC 2023 Submission’ to: aec@rmit.edu.au.

Deadline for Submissions
11 September 2023

Acceptance Notification
9 October 2023

Deadline for Presenters to Register
30 October 2023

References
  • Al-Htaybat, K., von Alberti-Alhtaybat, L., & Alhatabat, Z. (2018). Educating digital natives for the future: Accounting educators’ evaluation of the accounting curriculum. Accounting Education, 27(4), 333–357.
  • Damerji, H., & Salimi, A. (2021). Mediating effect of use perceptions on technology readiness and adoption of artificial intelligence in accounting. Accounting Education, 30(2), 107–130.
  • Davern, M. Weisner M. and Fraser, N. (2019) Technology and the Future of the Profession, CPA Australia, Melbourne.
  • Kend, M., & Nguyen, L. A. (2020) Big data analytics and other emerging technologies: The impact on the Australian audit and assurance profession. Australian Accounting Review, 30(4), 269-282.
  • Saidulu, D., & Sasikala, R. (2023). An approach for disease prediction and classification using novel weighting method and multichannel shared functional behaviour. Soft Computing, 1-16.
  • Sammour, G. A. (2023) Practical Agenda for Using AI in the Classroom, AACSB, Accessed on 29th May 2023 https://www.aacsb.edu/insights/articles/2023/05/a-practical-a genda-for-using-ai-in-the-classroom.
  • Tharapos, M. (2022). Opportunity in an uncertain future: reconceptualising accounting education for the post-COVID-19 world. Accounting Education, 31(6), 640-651.
  • Wood, D. A., Achhpilia, M. P., Adams, M. T., Aghazadeh, S., Akinyele, K., Akpan, M., ... & Kuruppu, C. (2023) The ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence Chatbot: How Well Does It Answer Accounting Assessment Questions? Issues in Accounting Education, 38(4), 1-28.

Program

Monday November 27, 2023

CPA Australia Melbourne Office, Level 20, 28 Freshwater Pl, Southbank

Program and registration details TBA

Contact us

Conference Convenors

Pavithra Siriwardhane and Sonia Magdziarz

Email address: aec@rmit.edu.au

About AEC

The RMIT Accounting Educators' Conference is a refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices of accounting education. The conference promotes collaborative excellence between members and institutions from practice and education. The aim of the Conference is to provide an opportunity for academics and professionals with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge knowledge gaps, strive for excellence in research and promote the evolution of accounting education in the development of future accounting professionals. The conference invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation, critiques, empirical analysis, practice, and performance evaluation.

The RMIT Accounting Educators’ Conference is held annually and was first held in 2010. Previous conference themes include:

  • 2022: The role of accounting education as a conduit for Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDGs) adoption
  • 2021: Opportunities for accounting education in a post-COVID-19 world
  • 2020: The future of Accounting Education and Scholarship in the post-COVID-19 World
  • 2019: Moving from diversity to inclusion in accounting education
  • 2018: Out with the old, in with learning technologies
  • 2017: Research Quality in Accounting Education
  • 2016: Accounting Education: What it is, and what it is not
  • 2015: Responding to challenges: the future of accounting education
  • 2014: Responding to the unmet demands of accounting students and employers of accounting graduates: Challenges and advances in accounting education
  • 2013: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
  • 2012: The Changing Nature of Accounting Education: Compliance, Governance and Accountability
  • 2011: Accounting Education or Educating Accountants
  • 2010: The Inaugural RMIT Accounting Educators’ Conference
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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Luwaytini' by Mark Cleaver, Palawa.

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.