Educators' forum consultative teaching: International examples

Teaching strategies for addressing improvements in abstract thinking skills are discussed. It is suggested that accounting education reformers consider adopting more conceptually oriented accounting programs that include such strategies as segment teaching assignments and tutorial systems. Examples of these and other teaching strategies described as the consultative method are presented from accounting programs in New Zealand and Australia. The recommendations for reform are made with evaluations of the underlying issues which curriculum changes, such as these, may create.