Artículo
The employers’ priorities: vocational skills and capabilities for management accountants
Autor/es | Hassall, Trevor
Joyce, John Arquero Montaño, José Luis Donoso Anés, José Antonio |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Contabilidad y Economía Financiera |
Fecha de publicación | 2001 |
Fecha de depósito | 2018-08-30 |
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Resumen | There has been increasing pressure on the providers of Higher Education to align
courses with the needs of employers. Surveys have documented the need to develop a
broad range of vocational skills. However there is a ... There has been increasing pressure on the providers of Higher Education to align courses with the needs of employers. Surveys have documented the need to develop a broad range of vocational skills. However there is a need to establish priorities, based on the demands of the workplace, within this identified skills gap. The first section of this paper identifies the need for the development of vocational skills in general, and then specifically in the defined area of management accounting. The second section presents the views of the employers of management accountants on the relative importance of a specified set of vocational skills, and the level of these skills exhibited by graduates and recently qualified Management Accountants. These measures are then combined in a “weighted importance indicator” to indicate the skills that are most in need of development. |
Cita | Hassall, T., Joyce, J., Arquero Montaño, J.L. y Donoso Anés, J.A. (2001). The employers’ priorities: vocational skills and capabilities for management accountants. Industry and Higher Education, 15 (6), 421-429. |
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