Question: An individual who was appraising accounting education had the following premises (assumptions):
a. Accounting professors used to do more consulting with accounting practitioners than they do today.
b. Accounting professors have become more interested in research that is abstract and not practical than used to be the case. He therefore concluded that accounting students are not as well prepared to enter the accounting profession as they used to be. Which type of reasoning was the individual using? What is your assessment of his conclusion?