Accounting and MCSA Training

I think it's a good idea. It's a college setting but you'd be doing "Real" work. That's a good way to fail, without "failing"! It provides a means of "hands-on" training because each student would conduct themselves as if each situation was a real life transaction. That's a good way to weed out you weaknesses, and improve on them before you go out into the "live" world and possible end up regretting a lot of decisions. It's also a good way to perfect the skills you've already accomplished, making you a more effective accountant.

I can understand why you'd want people around that have some technical expertise, but I really can't see this combination!
My sister works as an accounting clerk for a small security company (about 40-45 people in the office, about 75 guards), and there is _no_ way that she could do any of the systems admin work--she simply doesn't have time in the work week! (They have 4 accounting clerks total in this company, and they're all working 45-50 hour weeks...)

I think it would depend on the company... a much smaller company would probably be more interested, but when you hit the "more than 20" threshold, I think you're probably going to want to separate the roles more than this would allow.