Many enquiries into the state of accounting education/training, undertaken in several countries over the past 40 years, have warned that it must change if it is to be made more relevant to students, to the accounting profession, and to stakeholders in the wider community.
This book’s over-riding aim is to provide a comprehensive and authoritative source of reference which defines the domain of accounting education/training, and which provides a critical overview of the state of this domain (including emerging and cutting edge issues) as a foundation for facilitating improved accounting education/training scholarship and research in order to enhance the educational base of accounting practice. The Routledge Companion to Accounting Education highlights the key drivers of change - whether in the field of practice on the one hand (e.g. increased regulation, globalisation, risk, and complexity), or from developments in the academy on the other (e.g. pressures to embed technology within the classroom, or to meet accreditation criteria) on the other.

Thirty chapters, written by leading scholars from around the world, are grouped into seven themed sections which focus on different facets of their respective themes – including student, curriculum, pedagogic, and assessment considerations.

过去40年来，许多国家对会计教育/培训的现状进行了调查，这些调查警告说，如果要使会计教育/培训与学生、会计职业和更广泛社会的利益相关者更为相关，就必须改变这种状况。
这本书的首要目的是提供一个全面和权威的参考资料来源，它定义了会计教育/培训领域，它提供了一个关键的概述这一领域的状态（包括新兴和前沿问题）作为促进改进会计教育/培训奖学金和研究的基础，以加强会计实践的教育基础。《Routledge会计教育指南》强调了变革的关键驱动因素——一方面是在实践领域（如监管、全球化、风险和复杂性的增加），另一方面是在学院的发展（如在课堂上嵌入技术的压力，或符合认证标准）。
由来自世界各地的顶尖学者撰写的三十章被分为七个主题部分，集中讨论各自主题的不同方面，包括学生、课程、教学和评估方面的考虑。