Increasing the competency focus using a project-driven strategy / Michele Matherly, Laurie L. Burney -- Resume as a balanced scorecard : teaching the balanced scorecard using analogy / M. Christian Mastilak, Michele Matherly -- Do online homework systems improve student performance? / Mary Anne Gaffney, David Ryan, Christian Wurst -- Beta Alpha Psi faculty advisor profiles and the incentives to serve / Stephen Wheeler, Kay C. Carnes, Cynthia Firey Eakin -- An examination of the links between SRS technology and an active learning environment in a managerial accounting course / Christopher T. Edmonds, Thomas P. Edmonds -- Accounting doctoral programs : a multidimensional description / Amelia A. Baldwin, Carol E. Brown, Brad S. Trinkle -- Increasing student awareness of the accounting profession : utilizing accounting career panels as a cocurricular student activity / T.S. Amer, Craig E. Bain, Nancy L. Wilburn -- Virtual groups in a cost accounting course : group dynamics, outcomes, and participant satisfaction / Clement C. Chen, Keith T. Jones, Keith Moreland -- Assessing service-learning outcomes for students participating in VITA programs / Anne L. Christensen, Dennis Schmidt, Priscilla S. Wisner -- Student perceptions of web-based homework software : a longitudinal examination / Cindi Khanlarian, Evan Shough, Rahul Singh -- Publishing and utilizing relevant research in accounting : the impact on the perception of effective teaching / Karen C. Miller, Morris H. Stocks, Thomas Y. Proctor -- Unauthorized electronic access : students' ethics, attitudes, and actions / Anne L. Christensen, Jane Cote, Claire K. Latham.

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