Remedies to Challenges Confronting the Teaching and Learning of Accounting in Public Secondary Schools: A Conceptual Review

Abstract

helps users in decision making. The paper highlights the remedies to challenges confronting the teaching and learning of accounting in public secondary schools. Secondary data and information gotten from Journals Articles, textbooks, magazines, archives, newspapers, and the internet were reviewed in the study. The challenges confronting teaching and learning of accounting includes inadequate funding, shortage of qualified accounting teachers, poor method of teaching, inadequate accounting textbooks and workbooks, lack of meaning of concept, inadequate teaching and learning environment, lack of instructional materials, poor time management. The study spelt out remedies for these challenges such as: provision of funds to secondary education sectors, provision of employment of qualified teachers in proportion with the number of students. Accounting teacher should motivate the students’ positively by telling them how easy it is to study accounting, teachers should organize weekly tutorial, assignment and tests continuously. This will enable students to think critically at a higher cognitive skill’s level in their secondary schools.