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Accounting for the future: more than numbers
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Hancock, Phil Howieson, Bryan Kavanagh, Marie E. Kent, Jennifer Tempone, Irene Segal, Naomi |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Abstract | A collaborative investigation into the changing skill set for professional accounting graduates over the next ten years and strategies for embedding such skills into professional accounting programs. Accounting for the future: more than numbers 2009, vol. 1 2 Support for this project has been provided by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council, an initiative of the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. The views expressed in this report do not necessarily reflect the views of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council Ltd. This work is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Australia Licence. Under this Licence you are free to copy, distribute, display and perform the work and to make derivative works. Share Alike: If you alter, transform, or build on this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a licence identical to this one. For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the licence terms of this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit This project is a collaborative investigation into the changing skill set deemed necessary for professional accounting graduates over the next ten years and the strategies for embedding such skills into professional accounting programs. The goals for the 12-month project were to: 1. Identify whether there is a consensus as to the relative importance of key technical and non-technical skills for graduates of professional accounting programs to meet the challenges of the profession over the next ten years. 2. Identify the range of non-technical skills required of professional accountants over the next ten years. 3. Identify examples of best practice for the embedding of relevant non-technical skills in professional accounting programs. 4. Widely disseminate findings to accounting academics for use in accounting programs in the higher education sector and to other stakeholders, with presentations at seminars in each mainland state and at AFAANZ conferences. In the first stage of the project, data were collected from interviews with these key stakeholders: employers of accounting graduates, including all Big 4, some mid-tier/niche and small accounting firms; the three professional accounting bodies; large and small companies; and the public sector across Australia. The project team also interviewed recent graduates and conducted focus group sessions with current accounting students. Interviews were transcribed and analysed, with the identity of individual participants concealed. … |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
