Personal Transferable Skills in Accounting Education

ISBN-13: 9781138818309 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 186 str.

Kim Watty; Beverley Jackling; Richard M. S. Wilson

Opis

This work illustrates how generic skills are being embedded and evaluated in the accounting curriculum by academics from a range of perspectives. Each chapter provides an account of how the challenge of incorporating generic skills in the accounting curriculum within particular educational environments has been addressed.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Personal Transferable Skills in Accounting Education Kim Watty, Beverley Jackling and Richard M.S. Wilson  2. Generic Attributes in Accounting: The Significance of the Disciplinary Context Anna Jones  3. The Expectation-Performance Gap in Accounting Education: An Exploratory Study Binh Bui and Brenda Porter  4. Accounting Students’ Expectations and Transition Experiences of Supervised Work Experience Louise Gracia  5. A Whole-of-program Approach to the Development of Generic and Professional Skills in a University Accounting Program Lesley Willcoxson, Monte Wynder and Gregory K. Laing  6. Development of Generic Competencies: Impact of a Mixed Teaching Approach on Students’ Perceptions Anne Fortin and Michèle Legault  7. Embedding Generic Employability Skills in an Accounting Degree: Development and Impediments Greg Stoner and Margaret Milner  8. Knowledge and Skills Development of Accounting Graduates: The Perceptions of Graduates and Employers in Ghana Joseph Y. Awayiga, Joseph M. Onumah and Mathew Tsamenyi  9. The Acquisition of Generic Skills of Culturally-diverse Student Cohorts Monica Keneley and Beverley Jackling