Raising awareness of the risk of failure in first-year accounting students

Accounting Education

Volumn 19, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 203-218

  Prinsloo, Paul ^a   Müller, Heléne ^a   Du Plessis, Annekie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Autopoiesis; Open and distance learning (ODL); Risk awareness; Throughput

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960019933     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639280802618130     Document Type: Article

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