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A 3 page paper summarizing a 1992 article, “Rewarding failure and effort,” an article exhorting management accounting instructors not to discourage students who make real effort yet fail to arrive at prescribed conclusions. The paper discusses the article in terms of a management text, as well as examples from Mary Kay Ash, who the article’s authors also use as an example. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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their article, "Rewarding failure and effort," for accounting educators. The authors purpose was to call educators attention to the differences in individual students and to exhort educators to be
encouraging for those who clearly made adequate effort but failed to arrive at the desired end. Applicability to Accounting This must be more
difficult in accounting or any other discipline where students work needs to reflect quantitative results. A philosophy student can arrive at any answer s/he chooses in response to a
question, as long as the student provides a sound argument and logical progression in building that argument. Science and math-based disciplines differ from this in the fact that, while
there may be several ways of arriving at the desired conclusion, the conclusion itself must be that which the instructor expects. As example, there can be several ways in
which a management accountant (for whom the journal in which this article appeared is published) can determine country risk or the net present value of a proposed venture, but the
actual results best be accurate. When there is too much creativity - or not enough critical thought - in the approach to capital budgeting, then the bottom line reached
is not a valid one. Benke and Hermanson (1992) stress the need to encourage students who appear to be making their best effort,
but in the end still miss the mark the instructor seeks. They use the wonderful example of Mary Kay Ash, who was committed to the principles of "praising people
to success" (Ash, 1986; p. 21). The authors would have done well to include another "Mary Kayism" in their narrative of why and how to encourage students. That
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