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Professional Skills Required of Accountants: What Do Job Advertisements Tell Us?
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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
European Project MICROBOL: Micro-Credentials Linked to the Bologna Key Commitments. Desk Research Report
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Cirlan, Elena; Loukkola, Tia – European University Association, 2020
MICROBOL -- Micro-credentials linked to the Bologna Key Commitments -- is a two-year project co-funded by Erasmus+ KA3 Support to Policy reform, and more specifically "Support to the implementation of EHEA [European Higher Education Area] reforms". It is linked to the aims of the new Erasmus+ Programme and the EHEA to increase access to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Job Skills, Skill Development
Employers' Perceptions of Information Technology Competency Requirements for Management Accounting Graduates
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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
Accounting Employers' Expectations--The Ideal Accounting Graduates
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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
Meeting the Demands of the Workplace: Science Students and Written Skills
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Gray, F. Elizabeth; Emerson, Lisa; MacKay, Bruce – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2005
Over the last 15 years, surveys in a range of English-speaking countries, from North America and the United Kingdom, to New Zealand and Australia, have consistently shown that employers rank oral and written communication skills as highly as or more highly than any technical or quantitative skills. However, in New Zealand there has been very…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Skills, Science Education, Workplace Literacy
Electronic Data Processing. Report on Training. National EDP Skills and Training Needs Survey.
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