Transforming the Role of Accountants and the Introductory Course

Students are using AI on nearly everything, and the accounting profession is changing just as fast. In this session, Chris and Jennifer Edmonds share what recent research says about how students actually use AI, what it means for the skills employers now pay for, and how they have redesigned the introductory course to drill financial statement impacts instead of journal entries. They will walk through the horizontal financial statements model, compare two approaches to the first course, and demo new resources in Connect and on edmondshub.com, including the AI Reader and Applying AI in Accounting problems. This is a focus group, so come ready to react, push back, and tell us what you need.