Introduction
We believe that the current accountancy education system is narrow, culturally uniform, and insufficiently responsive to the ethical challenges of the profession. This perpetuates the social, economic, and environmental injustice that we witness daily. The problems with current audit practices and the practices of the ‘big four’ accountancy firms – PwC, Deloitte, EY, and KPMG – are becoming increasingly evident. These problems are institutional and cultural rather than just market-based, with prominent critical economists such as Professor Atul Shah arguing that many of these issues stem from accountancy education.