Accounting skills and abilities are practical and useful in any business, big and small. People with accounting aptitude are typically detail-oriented and are good in analysis and logical thinking.

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In academia, closed-book exams under the eye of a watchful proctor have long been the norm for tests and quizzes. But some accounting faculty are shaking up that model by developing creative new ...