Introducing Digital Acumen Into Accounting Information Systems Courses: A Design Science Approach

Abstract

Abstract Business school accreditors and the accounting profession, through its credentialing examinations, increasingly ask accounting faculty to include digital acumen (an ability to leverage digital innovations) in accounting courses. Yet many instructors struggle to identify which topics to prioritize and how to cover those topics given time and resource constraints. In this paper, I use a design science approach to introducing or reinforcing digital acumen coverage in accounting information systems (AIS) courses. AIS educators can adopt any of the outputs I developed or adapt the design science approach I model herein to develop their own outputs.