How to display a field from a parent module?

How to display a field from a parent module?

I need a little help. I want to display in my contact the account type field.

How can I do that? With a formula field, I tried to do something like this: ${Account.Account Type} but it seems like you can't reference other modules. 

I would like to make the field available so I can see it in the Contact List and Contact View.

Thanks