Curricular Framework of SAP ERP Management Education: Design and Evaluation of a German University

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) play an essential role in all areas of today’s economy and have thus increasingly being focused on in higher education in recent years. Despite these welcome efforts undertaken, shortcomings in this area still exist. In consequence, there is great need for an ICT-based higher education curriculum redesign. This requires not only the development of innovative course designs using ICT but above all a modernization of traditional higher education teaching patterns to improve the fundamental understanding of ICT. Due to its close relationship to ICT, this is of particular importance for managerial accounting education. This paper displays a detailed example of a curriculum designed to impart skills in using SAP ERP software which is an important key competence of future managerial accountants by using an innovative action-oriented teaching approach.