Graduates' Vocational Skills for the Management Accountancy Profession: Exploring the Accounting Education Expectation-Performance Gap

Autor/in	Howcroft, Douglas
Titel	Graduates' Vocational Skills for the Management Accountancy Profession: Exploring the Accounting Education Expectation-Performance Gap
Quelle	In: Accounting Education, 26 (2017) 5-6, S.459-481 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0963-9284
DOI	10.1080/09639284.2017.1361846
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Accounting; Business Administration Education; Undergraduate Students; College Graduates; Job Skills; Expectation; Surveys; Stakeholders; College Faculty; Role of Education; Higher Education; Job Training; Qualitative Research; Interviews; Statistical Analysis; United Kingdom; Ireland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Abrechnung; Buchführung; Buchhaltung; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Produktive Fertigkeit; Expectancy; Erwartung; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Fakultät; Bildungsauftrag; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Berufsqualifizierender Bildungsgang; Qualitative Forschung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Statistische Analyse; Großbritannien; Irland
Abstract	This paper focuses on understanding the vocational skills required by graduates and assessing the competence of graduates for the management accountancy profession. It explores "expectation gaps" by examining whether the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, practitioner employers and university educators have different expectations with regard to the important vocational skills for graduates. The research aim is to generate a greater understanding of the factors that create identified expectation gaps between the above stakeholders and to explore the implications of any gaps. The research was conducted by interviewing stakeholders and a survey of university accounting educators in UK and Ireland business schools. Expectation gaps between the stakeholders were identified. These expectation gaps appear to exist owing to conflicting views on the purpose of university education. The paper contributes to the growing debates about the general role of higher education in society and the role of university accounting educators in supplying graduate trainee accountants for the management accountancy profession. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01