Accounting practice in the new millennium: is accounting education ready to meet the challenge?

By Bryan Howieson. 2003

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Influences on Undergraduate Students' Intentions to become Qualified Accountants: Evidence from Australia (2006, background): “Future accountants will need to take on the role of what Howieson (2003) terms ‘knowledge’ workers, where important components of an accountant's skill set will be skills in analysis, innovative problem solving, communications and client relations.”
Employability skills, personal qualities, and early employment problems of entry-level auditors: Perspectives from employers, lecturers, auditors, and students (2016, background): “Universities have been urged to improve their curriculum to reduce the expectations gap in relation to employer requirements, and hence, to increase the employability of the university graduates (Albrecht & Sack, 2000; Braun, 2004; Howieson, 2003; Kavanagh & Drennan, 2008).”
Professional skills required of accountants: what do job advertisements tell us? (2018, background): “Unequivocally, it is not possible for tertiary institutions to teach all the skills that are demanded by employers (Howieson et al., 2014). O’Connell et al. (2015) point out that academics play a key role in delivering the initial”
Developing skills via work placements in accounting: Student and employer views (2010, background): “This is despite the increasing focus on personal transferable skills by universities (see, for example, Albrecht & Sack, 2000; Howieson, 2003).”
The role of internet-related technologies in shaping the work of accountants: New directions for accounting research (2019, background): “Accounting researchers (Howieson, 2003), practitioners (PWC, 2015), and professional”
What Skills and Attributes Does an Accounting Graduate Need? Evidence from Student Perceptions and Employer Expectations (2008, neutral): “Howieson (2003) sees the focus of the future accounting professional being the management of knowledge and adapting the education of accounting professionals to capitalise on that.”
Generic Skills in Audit Education (2011, background): “Howieson (2003) argues that professional accountants must demonstrate broad business skills to ensure that they are competitive and can quickly adapt to changes in the market place, stating that: Accountants . . . need to have specialist knowledge in a specific industry but they will also have to…”
Do Accounting Graduates’ Skills Meet The Expectations of Employers? A Matter of Convergence or Divergence (2009, background): “Typically, these commentators have challenged educators to revisit their pedagogy and have questioned the relevance of course content (see, Greenberg, 1997; Bonk and Smith, 1998; ICAA, 1998a; Johnstone and Biggs, 1998; Sergenian and Pant, 1998; Ashbaugh and Johnstone, 2000; Boyce, Williams, Kelly an”