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Title

Revisiting Financial (Accounting) Literacy: A Comparison Of Audit Committee Members And Business Students

Authors

Don Giacomino, Marquette UniversityFollow
Joseph Wall, Carthage CollegeFollow
Michael D. Akers, Marquette UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Publication Date

5-2009

Publisher

The Clute Institute

Source Publication

American Journal of Business Education

Source ISSN

1942-2504

Abstract

While financial literacy is important for an audit committee in discharging its duties there is no authoritative guidance or definition and limited empirical research as to what constitutes financial literacy of audit committees and business students. Coates et al. conducted a study that examined the financial literacy of corporate board members and MBA students at the University of Chicago using an instrument developed by Schipper and WeiL Their findings suggest that both groups lack the appropriate level of financial literacy. This paper extends that research by using the same instrument to examine the financial literacy of undergraduate accounting finance students at a private Midwestern university. Our findings indicate the undergraduate students also lack financial literacy. Caution should be used in interpreting these results since there is no consensus definition of financial literacy within the accounting profession.

Comments

Published version. American Journal of Business Education, Vol. 2, No. 3 (May/June 2009): 31-38. DOI. © 2009 Clute Institute. Used with permission.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Giacomino, Don; Wall, Joseph; and Akers, Michael D., "Revisiting Financial (Accounting) Literacy: A Comparison Of Audit Committee Members And Business Students" (2009). Accounting Faculty Research and Publications. 15.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/account_fac/15