Scripts for Accountants: How Experts Organise What They Know

Experts don't just know more. They organise it differently.

Issue 03 · October 2026, The Expertise Issue

Cover: In the style of Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669), after Syndics of the Drapers' Guild (1662). AI-generated; not a work by the artist. The guild's sample book sits at the centre of a web of linked objects, a picture of knowledge organised so that an expert can read it at a glance.

In this issue

If you only do one thing this week

Add one "what if" to your next worked example

Take one worked example from next week's lecture and swap a single detail, for example the payment date or the year-end. Ask students what changes, and why. That's our suggestion, adapted from a tip reported in this issue's article Adaptive Expertise: Teach for the Problem Students Haven't Met Yet, and it wasn't tested in accounting. Our printable Script Sprint has eight scenarios and four ready-made "what if" twists.

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The Number

threshold concepts in financial instruments, named by educators in one study. Inside: Article 02.

Bardien & Lubbe (2026), Accounting Education. Source (doi.org)