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Agrawal, Prerana; Birt, Jacqueline; Holub, Mark; van Zyl, Warrick – Accounting Education, 2021
Professional scepticism forms an integral part of a professional accountant's skill set and is fundamental to their training. Recent revisions to IESs 2, 3, 4 and 8 reflect changes in the market expectation in relation to professional scepticism. In this paper, we answer calls for additional research into professional scepticism by investigating…
Descriptors: Accounting, Professional Education, Financial Audits, Educational Change
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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
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Short, Tom; Harris, Roger – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2010
Modern organisations have become more complex, less mechanistic and increasingly sensitive to rapid changes in the external environment than in previous eras. Today, executives lead employees through a maze of complexity and changing contexts. However, another group of dedicated professionals, the human resource managers and practitioners, also…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Foreign Countries, Human Resources, Strategic Planning
Wagner, Graham A. – 1984
A national survey of electronic data processing (EDP) skills and training needs involved 16 representative firms that employed EDP staff. Separate semi-structured interview schedules were used to interview 266 job holders and 63 managers with responsibility for EDP staff and computing systems. Findings indicated 67 percent of EDP staff had not…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Data Processing, Educational Needs, Employee Attitudes