Bücher von Guanming He

The academic job market becomes more and more competitive in accounting discipline nowadays, and it is difficult for an accounting PhD student to get a decent job placement at a reputable institution. The objective of this study is to examine how to improve academic job placements for an accounting PhD program. To address this question, I explore four important specific issues. First, given the increased amount of applications for accounting PhD program over years, how to screen out and admit the most academically promising students? Second, what determine an accounting PhD student¿s academic job placement? Third, how to help our accounting PhD students to build up strong academic credentials during their PhD studies, such that they will be competitive enough in the job market upon graduation? Fourth, what are the optimal job search strategies the accounting PhD students should adopt at their graduation year? Overall, this study offers insights into the ways of improving academic job placements for an accounting PhD program.

This paper provides a critical review of pedagogic practices in the Research Method in Accounting module, with the objective of offering insights into the teaching of this module. The pedagogic review covers multiple aspects, including in-class teaching, student learning, assessment and feedback strategies, evaluation of teaching, and module design. Students should adapt themselves to the teaching done by instructors, but at the same time, it is also important for instructors to adjust their teaching to cater for the needs of the students¿ learning. Students have varied academic background, foundation, and talent, and their learning styles/processes differ from one another. A good lecturer should be able to keep adjusting his or her teaching to make it suited for all the students' learning at all times. We shall keep learning from our teaching and from students¿ learning, and proactively undertake in-depth critical reviews of our pedagogic practices whereby making our teaching become better and better.