Is Career Guidance Sending the Right Message about Accounting Work? Comparing Accounting with Competing Professions

Autor/inn/en	Chen, Clement C.; Garven, Sarah A.; Jones, Keith T.; Scarlata, Audrey N.
Titel	Is Career Guidance Sending the Right Message about Accounting Work? Comparing Accounting with Competing Professions
Quelle	In: Accounting Education, 30 (2021) 4, S.355-384 (30 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Scarlata, Audrey N.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0963-9284
DOI	10.1080/09639284.2021.1913615
Schlagwörter	Accounting; Career Guidance; Occupational Information; Finance Occupations; Technical Occupations; Health Occupations; Professional Occupations + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Abrechnung; Buchführung; Buchhaltung; Berufsorientierung; Berufsinformation; Finanzbuchhalter; Technical occupation; Technischer Beruf; Gesundheitsberuf; Berufsklassifikation
Abstract	Using U.S. Department of Labor O*NET occupation data, we test hypotheses, developed primarily from the occupational models upon which the American College Testing's (ACT) "Profile" career guidance is based, to examine how accounting compares with three competing professions: engineering, medicine, and law. Awareness of the differences in views about the accounting profession between the "Profile" system and current workers in the field may be useful in improving efforts to educate, recruit, and retain future accounting professionals. Findings indicate that the "Profile" system underestimates accountants' need for communication and interaction and analytical thinking abilities. Further, it overestimates their involvement in information processing and nonpersonal tasks. Additionally, we find that accounting is not an outlier profession; instead, it shares much in common with its competitors. Overall, results suggest that the leading occupational models, and the "Profile" system upon which they are based, may not provide a comprehensive picture of contemporary accounting work. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01