Firing the imagination: Using military stories in accounting

This paper explores the use of stories on military history as a basis for introducing accounting concepts to non-accounting students studying accounting for the first time. These stories were used to encourage a deep learning approach by allowing students to develop their own meanings in accounting based on already understood meanings in military history. Developed meanings were validated through shared peer learning. Results indicated interest and confidence in the study of accounting, and understanding of key accounting concepts were greatly enhanced through creating a link between military history, a familiar domain of knowledge and the unfamiliar domain of accounting.