What is it about?

The article aims to examine to what extent and how effective sustainability education has been at the tertiary accounting education level.

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Why is it important?

The New Zealand (NZ) Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment identified that sustainability education. Given the future challenges that NZ businesses will face, it is important that universities equip managers (and accountants) to meet these demands.

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Although sustainability has formed the subject of extensive research over a number of years, there has been no work performed on the current state of sustainability education in accounting courses at NZ universities

Dr Vida Lucia Botes
University of Waikato

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This page is a summary of: Is accounting education sufficiently sustainable?, Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal, February 2014, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/sampj-11-2012-0041.
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