Enhancing accounting students' problem-solving skills: The use of a hands-on conceptual model in an active learning environment

Accounting Education

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 235-256

  Kern, Beth B ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND   (United States)

Author keywords

Active Learning; Allocations; Conceptual Models; Hands ON Learning; Inventory Cost; Problem SOLVING

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242600524     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639280210141680     Document Type: Article

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