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This article illustrates through Actor Network Theory, how non-professional external agendas drive the teaching of accountancy at South African universities. This divorces the accounting teachers from accounting scholars or academic internationally, because the South African teachers fail to engage in scientific research

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It explains the marginalisation of SA accounting teachers. These teachers teach techniques, they are outside scientific academic intellectual inquiry

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Critical self-assessment of teachers at SA universities is required to restore academic credibility. The professional body stifles academic work

Professor Grietjie Verhoef
University of Johannesburg

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This page is a summary of: The accounting profession and education, Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, August 2017, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/aaaj-08-2015-2192.
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