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Tan, Lin Mei; Laswad, Fawzi – Accounting Education, 2018
This study examines the employability skills of accountants cited in job advertisements in Australia and New Zealand, as they indicate the skills that are most valued by employers. The results indicate interpersonal and personal are the most frequently requested skills. Of the 31 identified skills, the most sought-after skills included the ability…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Accounting, Advertising, Occupational Information
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Spraakman, Gary; O'Grady, Winifred; Askarany, Davood; Akroyd, Chris – Accounting Education, 2015
Management accountants work in a computerized workplace with information technology (IT) for producing financial ledgers and for reporting. Thus, the role of the management accountant has shifted from capturing and recording transactions to analyzing business issues. The research question is: what IT knowledge and skills do employers require of…
Descriptors: Accounting, Technological Literacy, Job Skills, Employment Qualifications
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Low, Mary; Botes, Vida; Rue, David Dela; Allen, Jackie – e-Journal of Business Education and Scholarship of Teaching, 2016
This research examined what accounting employers are seeking in their "ideal" accounting graduate and sought to provide clarification on the "expectation gap" between what accounting employers require in their graduates, and the skills these graduates are exhibiting. Adopting a qualitative research method, this research paper…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Accounting, Employer Attitudes, Employment Qualifications