Integrating Modern Slavery Into Accounting Education

Abstract

The growing importance and widespread adoption of non-financial reporting have led accountants to take on new responsibilities. They must improve their abilities, knowledge and wisdom to collect, analyse and present non-financial information. The modern slavery report is the latest non-financial report and is becoming widespread due to the Modern Slavery Act of the United Kingdom (2015) and Australia (2018). The responsibilities of accountants in the preparation of modern slavery reports also give them essential roles in eradicating modern slavery. These recent developments underscore the need to incorporate modern slavery topics into accounting education. The main objective of this chapter is to discuss the importance and challenges of integrating modern slavery topics into the accounting curriculum. The discussions are based on the author’s teaching experiences and insights from research conducted with accounting students.