Author: Scott Copeland

Scott Copeland is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Commerce at the University of South Australia Business School and is course coordinator for a large first year financial accounting course. Scott has served as a member of the Business School Teaching and Learning Committee. Scott’s academic career has focussed on the development of high quality and engaging courses for first year accounting students studying on-campus, in distance mode and internationally. Scott’s research interests centre on accounting education, with a particular focus on student development as well as transition from secondary education into the tertiary sector. In 2014 Scott was elected to role of Secretary of the AFAANZ Accounting Education Special Interest Group. This research focus complements Scott’s previous career as a secondary school teacher and continuing involvement with this sector as a subject expert for Accounting working with the SACE Board. Scott has also worked closely with the accounting professional bodies in exploring the opportunities to encourage secondary school students to choose to further their studies in business at University.

Who’s the most important person in the room? Maybe the person sitting next to you?

Posted on March 26, 2019March 26, 2019 by Scott Copeland

READING TIME: 5 minutes I was about the write this entry solely focused on my experiences with my first year tutorials this year but as I typed the title I realised this is probably important question for all of us,

Accounting can be intense, but should it be taught that way?

Posted on February 12, 2019February 25, 2019 by Scott Copeland

READING TIME: 5 minutesThis particular post has grown out of the past five weeks were I’ve had the opportunity to spend some time with 60 (then it became 50 and finally settled at 44) students completing a financial accounting course over summer. This

Can anyone tell me what the wrong answer is???

Posted on October 8, 2018 by Scott Copeland

READING TIME: 6 minutesThis week I want to talk about a friend of a friend of mine who is really struggling with some key accounting concepts and is continually getting things wrong. More importantly as an accounting teacher I love the fact they

Accounting less about the dollars and more about making sense.

Posted on September 5, 2018 by Scott Copeland

READING TIME: 5 minutesOne of the most common things I hear from accounting students, particularly in first year, is they are doing accounting because they like numbers (or because they are good at math 😔). Now clearly numbers are an important part of

Flip, if you’ve got the time and the space.

Posted on July 24, 2018 by Scott Copeland

READING TIME: 4 minutesThe idea/discussion/craze of flipping the classroom is nothing new and there is plenty of good research out there about the pros and cons. This isn’t designed as a piece to convince you one way or the other, it’s my perspective

Getting the “wee ones” ready for Uni life

Posted on June 20, 2018 by Scott Copeland

READING TIME: 5 minutesFirst of all thanks (or apologies) to a good friend and great educator Ken Adams from whom I’ve borrowed the term “wee ones” as a description for newly arrived Uni students. When I first heard Ken use that phrase it immediately