Objects of Substance- The Subject of Accounting

1979 Letter to Parents from Principal, Mrs Judith Hancock

The conundrum for Accounting, the subject, has always been its mis-association with the profession of accounting; its link with procedural “bookkeeping” and its non-association with financial literacy in the school context. These give the perception to some that this elective subject sits in a lower stratification of the knowledge in high school curricula deemed to be ‘academic’. There is also an historic gender bias with deep socio-cultural tendrils at play in the perception of Accounting as a lower status subject in high schools. My doctoral thesis traced the point in history (in 1972) that could be deemed “the decision” that meant Accounting became part of the current suite of QCAA