TY - CHAP AB - Abstract Experience is educational; education is a form of experience. Study of accounting ideology and methodology can help develop rational thinking and provide exercise in forming judgments. It is a good area in which to experience the techniques of learning to learn. Accounts themselves speak of experience, of the results from management decisions. Knowledge of such results offers a platform for rational decisions. Accounting is a special kind of information apparatus. Significant relations exist among its data; these provide definite aid for judgmental decisions. Thus, accounting provides experience in using accumulated experience. VL - 20 SN - 978-1-78635-389-4, 978-1-78635-390-0/1479-3504 DO - 10.1108/S1479-350420160000020028 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-350420160000020028 PY - 2016 Y1 - 2016/01/01 TI - Significance of Experience T2 - A. C. Littleton’s Final Thoughts on Accounting: A Collection of Unpublished Essays T3 - Studies in the Development of Accounting Thought PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 57 EP - 62 Y2 - 2024/05/10 ER -