A brave new world: Australian learning outcomes in accounting education

Accounting Education

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 265-273

  Freeman, Mark ^a   Hancock, Phil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Academic standards; Benchmarking; Learning outcomes; Threshold

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959282790     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639284.2011.580915     Document Type: Review

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