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Pathways Vision ModelSimplicity on the Far Side of

Complexity

Innovations in Accounting Education for the Global Information Age Panel

American Accounting Association Annual Meeting

August, 10, 2015

G. Peter Wilson

Slides will be posted at

www.navigatingaccounting.com/presentation/presentations#Teaching

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“I wouldn’t give a fig for the

simplicity this side of complexity

but I’d give my life for simplicity

on the far side of complexity”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

FramingSimplicity on the Far Side of Complexity

http://integral-options.blogspot.com/2013/03/eric-storm-and-beth-meredith-beyond.html

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Sim

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the F

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SIMPLICITY ON THIS SIDE

OF COMPLEXITY

SIMPLICITY ON THE FAR

SIDE OF COMPLEXITY

Simple but shallow Simple yet deep

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Perception Reality

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Outsiders

Insiders

Pathways Vision Model

Inclusive

Simple, yet deep

Interdependent

elements

Anticipated

+ or -

+ or -

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Accounting Judgments Hierarchy

Education

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