Improving the quality of learning in accounting through advice and learning experiences from former students / Meifang Xiang -- Remote proctoring : the effect of proctoring on grades / Ann Boyd Davis, Richard Rand, Robert Seay -- Teaching variance analysis for cost accounting: how to achieve above par performance / Ron Messer -- Introduction to special section on accounting : doctoral programs and the academic job market -- Accounting doctoral program characteristics : a guide for prospective students / William D. Brink, Linda A. Quick -- Pedagogical training in PhD programs : how does accounting compare to similar disciplines? / Ira Abdullah ... [et al.] -- Navigating the accounting academic job market and related advice / Jason M. Bergner, Joshua J. Filzen, Jeffrey A. Wong.

Ananias Charles Littletons (1886-1974) is widely recognized as one of the founding fathers of the accounting discipline in the United States. During his lifetime, he published several books and over 100 articles in journals such as the Harvard business review, Journal of accountancy, and The accounting review. The sum of Littletons publications have contributed to the establishment of the inductive approach to accounting construction, the veracity of historical cost measurements, and the viewpoint that accounting principles and standards should guide practice. In this posthumously edited volume-the manuscript of which was discovered at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2014-Littleton continues these familiar themes from earlier writings but he also embarks on new lines of inquiry. The most interesting of the latter is Littletons integration of the philosophical tradition of pragmatism as a basis for his accounting theory. The content of this edited volume will be of interest to any serious student of accounting history and theory.