The Vocational Skills Gap in Accounting Education Curricula: Empirical Evidence from the UK
International Journal of Management in Education, Forthcoming
34 Pages Posted: 7 May 2019
Date Written: April 16, 2019
Abstract
This paper aims to investigate the relative importance of a set of vocational skills and the extent to which accounting educators in the UK incorporate these skills into their accounting education curricula so that students can run a successful accounting career upon their graduation. Using a questionnaire method, the data was collected from two major stakeholders; namely accounting educators and final-year accounting students. The findings indicate that there is a degree of overall agreement between the two groups opinions’ that vocational skills required by accounting employers encompass not only technical and cognitive skills but also transferable skills such as communication, self-reflection, teamwork and organisational skills. The results of this paper should be of interest to accounting educators, curriculum designers and faculty who are responsible for reviewing and updating accounting curricula.
Keywords: vocational skills; accounting education curricula; accounting educators; accounting students; UK
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