Accountancy Examinations
Sir, —In view of the dissatisfaction lately expressed in your columns by candidates rejected in the accountancy examinations, I write to ask if some test could not be devised on the lines of the 15 days’ final test imposed on candidates for the Bachelor of Engineering degree. They are told, I understand, what they are required to design, left free to consult books and sources of information such as they will have access to throughout their professional career, and asked to prepare their scheme, plans, estimates, and so forth, just as in actual practice. Similarly a medical student is asked to interview a patient, and thereupon submit a diagnosis, prognosis, course of treatment and so on. In both cases the budding professional man blossoms forth under the conditions of real professional life, the emphasis being laid on his broad general competence rather than on a competitive tour de force. Is the devising of such a positive constructive test for accountants not possible?—l am,
etc., LIVE AND HELP. LIVE.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 93, 14 January 1935, Page 11
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170Accountancy Examinations Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 93, 14 January 1935, Page 11
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