CERTIFIED MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANTS: Perceptions of the Need for Communication Skills In Accounting

Hiemstra, Kathleen M.; Schmidt, Jacqueline J.; Madison, Roland L.

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“…Hiemstra, Schmidt, and Madison (1990) showed that more than 59 percent of Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) indicated that the course they completed in communication skills at the undergraduate level did not adequately prepare them to communicate as business professionals.…”

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“…Many studies have assessed the communication skills needed by accounting graduates (Hills, Gardiner, & McVey, 1979;Andrews & Koester, 1979; Stine & Skarzenski, 1979;Ingram & Frazier, 1980;Juchau & Galvin, 1984;McLaren, 1990;Hiemstra, Schmidt, & Madison, 1990;Zaid & Abrahams, 1994). Hiemstra, Schmidt, and Madison (1990) showed that more than 59 percent of Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) indicated that the course they completed in communication skills at the undergraduate level did not adequately prepare them to communicate as business professionals.…”

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Auditors' Communication Requirements: A Study of Five MNCs in Singapore

Goby

Lewis

1999

Business Communication Quarterly

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This article contributes to the research on preparing new auditors for their work. It investigates the work and communication needs of newly graduated auditors, their senior colleagues, and their managers in five MNCs ( multinational companies ) in Singapore. Much research indicates that accountancy graduates entering the profession are perceived to be lacking some important communication abilities. This study investigates how important auditors perceive interpersonal, oral, and written skills to be to them at different stages of their professional careers and the degree to which they perceive that they need to improve in these skills. As expected, the newly graduated audit assistants perceived the greatest need for improvement in all three skills. However, they also perceived that written skills were of lesser importance to them than interpersonal and oral skills. We suggest that accounting courses could prepare undergraduates more effectively in the oral/interpersonal skills needed in the initial stages of their auditing careers by introducing more case studies and by exploring the potential of the hypertext Internet environment to dovelop realistic simulations. These changes might involve the introduction of cross-disciplinary team teaching.AUDITING IS A PEOPLE-ORIENTED SEGMENT of the lUDITING IS A PEOPLE-ORIENTED SEGMENT of the accounting profession in which interaction with others is necessary in order to obtain information and carry out daily activities. This study investigated which communication skills are perceived to be required of auditors, and particularly newly graduated auditing assistants, in MNCs (multinational companies) in Singapore to find out how well new graduates are perceived to be prepared for their working lives as auditors and to recommend changes in accounting curricula to better prepare students for their future

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