Accounting students often complain that teamwork is time consuming and of 'free riders' not contributing to team processes and/or the final product. However, recent accounting academic studies have reported that in spite of student complaints, empirical evidence shows that teamwork activities embedded in the accounting curriculum hold numerous benefits to individual accounting students.

For example, Daly et al.(2015) found that alliance building activities embedded in teamwork increases intercultural skills and confidence.

The question therefore arises; 'What are the 3 core value propositions to accounting students to engage in teamwork?'