Accounting Education and Research to Promote International Understanding: The Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Accounting Education October 7-10, 1987, Kyoto, Japan

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The Sixth International Conference on Accounting Education was held just prior to the Thirteenth World Congress of Accountants. Hosted by the Science Council of Japan, the Japan Accounting Association, and the Union of National Economics Associations in Japan, in cooperation with the International Association on Accounting Education and Research, the 1987 conference marked the 25th anniversary of the founding of such conferences. The main theme of this conference was Accounting Education and Research Toward the Promotion of International Understanding of Economic Progress. The twentieth century has seen increasing interaction and growing interdependency between the various nations of the world, stressing the need for greater cooperation at the international level. At the same time, however, individual nations have their own particular sociocultural identities, making for differences that must not be overlooked. The purpose of the conference was to provide an opportunity for an exchange of ideas to serve as an impetus to a greater flow of information resulting in better understanding and increased respect on an international level.

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After 70 pages of greetings and closing addresses, the meat of these proceedings held in Kyoto in 1987 is in eight sections: Accounting Education (AE) in Various Environmental Contexts; AE in Different Socioeconomic Environments; New Theory and Technology for AE; Teaching International Accounting; Functions of Accounting in Different Social, Economic and Legal Environments; The Role of AE and Research in Industrial Development and High-Tech Environments; Recent Developments in International Standards and Disclosure Requirements; Selected Topics on International Accounting. Although some of the contributors are distinguished, as might be expected in a set of conference proceedings like this, the standard of the papers is very mixed. The main strength is in the geographical diversity, with papers from China, Nepal, Kuwait, the Caribbean, as well as Japan, Europe, Australasia and the US. Although the Conference Title is Accounting Education, many of the papers are of more general interest. A useful tome for the library, if only for a bibliographic source on the richness of world-wide accounting.-Academic Press Ltd.
"After 70 pages of greetings and closing addresses, the meat of these proceedings held in Kyoto in 1987 is in eight sections: Accounting Education (AE) in Various Environmental Contexts; AE in Different Socioeconomic Environments; New Theory and Technology for AE; Teaching International Accounting; Functions of Accounting in Different Social, Economic and Legal Environments; The Role of AE and Research in Industrial Development and High-Tech Environments; Recent Developments in International Standards and Disclosure Requirements; Selected Topics on International Accounting. Although some of the contributors are distinguished, as might be expected in a set of conference proceedings like this, the standard of the papers is very mixed. The main strength is in the geographical diversity, with papers from China, Nepal, Kuwait, the Caribbean, as well as Japan, Europe, Australasia and the US. Although the Conference Title is Accounting Education, many of the papers are of more general interest. A useful tome for the library, if only for a bibliographic source on the richness of world-wide accounting."-Academic Press Ltd.

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KYOJIRO SOMEYA is Professor of Accounting, Waseda University, Japan.