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Patterns Underlying Required Competencies for CPA Professionals: A Content and Cluster Analysis of Job Ads
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Uwizeyemungu, Sylvestre; Bertrand, Jacques; Poba-Nzaou, Placide – Accounting Education, 2020
In today's dynamic environment, the adaptation of the accounting profession to meet actual socio-economic needs is a challenging, and yet necessary, task. This study analyzes the technical competency requirements signalled in 171 online job advertisements for accounting positions by Canadian organizations and contrasts them with the CPA Canada…
Descriptors: Accounting, Professional Personnel, Job Skills, Employment Qualifications
Chartered Professional Accountant's Competencies: The Synergy between Accounting Education and Employers' Needs--Evidence from Alberta
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Elbarrad, Sherif; Belassi, Walid – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2023
Purpose: This study examines the competencies delineated by the Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA) in Canada and explores the gap between what universities provide, represented by the students' confidence in the knowledge acquired--and what the accounting profession in Canada requires and deems necessary. Design/methodology/approach: Using…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Administration Education, Education Work Relationship, Employer Attitudes
Recordkeeping, Bookkeeping, Accounting Survey.
Mortimore, Douglas; Wood, Wilma – 1982
The congruency between Alberta senior high school recordkeeping, bookkeeping, and accounting curricula and the entry-level skills of employees of business was examined. The investigation was a replication of one conducted by West (1973) in New York City and had very similar findings. Questionnaires that were developed from the job activities list…
Descriptors: Accounting, Bookkeeping, Business Education, Business Skills