Increasing student awareness of the accounting profession: Utilizing accounting career panels as a cocurricular student activity

Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages 129-151

  Amer, T S ^a   Bain, Craig E ^a   Wilburn, Nancy L ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84897586326     PISSN: 10854622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S1085-4622(2010)0000011009     Document Type: Review

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