Employers’ expectations of accounting skills from vocational education providers: The expectation gap between employers and ITPs

Edeigba, Jude

doi:10.1016/j.ijme.2022.100674

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“…With this dynamically changing environment, management institutes need to produce "marketable products" to the industry (Jordan et al, 2021). There was a huge gap prevailing between industry expectations and the current skills imparted (Aljohani et al, 2022;Blanka et al, 2022;Edeigba, 2022;Erku et al, 2019). A large set of people working currently in the industry need to be skilled, re-skilled and upskilled to cope up with the needs of the industry.…”

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Gap Analysis of existing managerial skill set and the skills imparted by the management institutes for the IT Industry

Chadha

Gupta

Tewari

2022

Econ. Bus. Account. Soc. Rev

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Nowadays, it becomes more important to produce rightly skilled individuals with the skills to survive and flourish in the industry. This paper focuses on the skill set that the management institutes are developing and how well that skill set is catering to the current era's IT industry. Such a sample population covers all the IT firms of India, registered as authorized companies and management institutes of the country that follow the overall accepted curriculum for management studies. A sample of 54 respondents was taken. The survey was done, questionnaires were floated to gather data, and further IBM SPSS was used for statistical analysis and to interpret the results. This research reveals a huge gap between the skills required and the skill set provided. It also brings out the key factors to address to fill the gap. Not only the factors but also the best possible methods to overcome such gaps have been brought to light in this paper. It gives an insight into the industry's dynamics and how important it is to cope with them for survival.

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Gap Analysis of existing managerial skill set and the skills imparted by the management institutes for the IT Industry

Chadha

Gupta

Tewari

2022

Econ. Bus. Account. Soc. Rev

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“…Dengan kemampuan leadership, seseorang lebih mudah terjun ke dunia kerja (Adnan, 2019). Kemampuan leadership juga merupakan keterampilan profesional yang wajib dimiliki oleh lulusan Akuntansi (Edeigba, 2022;Kwarteng & Mensah, 2022;Tan & Laswad, 2018). Penelitian lain menyatakan menyatakan bahwa kemampuan leadership merupakan faktor yang sangat berpengaruh terhadap keberhasilan seseorang dalam menggerakan orang lain untuk mencapai tujuan (Muna, 2016).…”

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Efektivitas Digital Collaborative Learning Terhadap Kemampuan Leadership Mahasiswa Sarjana Terapan Akuntansi

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Darmawan

2022

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Leadership is the most essential ability of accounting graduates needed by the labour market. This study aims to examine the effectiveness of digital collaborative learning on the leadership abilities of undergraduate students of applied accounting. The research design uses a quasi-experimental with a quantitative approach. The research was conducted at the Bachelor of Applied Accounting Study Program, Faculty of Economics, Yogyakarta State University in the odd semester of the 2022/2023 academic year. The research sample consisted of an experimental class and a control class of 35 students. An online questionnaire based on a Likert scale with five alternative answers was used to collect data. To ensure that the data met the requirements for analysis, the normality and homogeneity tests of variance were performed. The data was described using quantitative descriptive statistical analysis, and the hypothesis was tested using an independent sample t test. The results of the study show that there are significant differences in the effectiveness of digital collaborative learning on the leadership abilities of undergraduate students of applied accounting. This means that providing digital collaborative learning treatment has a significant impact on improving the leadership abilities of undergraduate accounting students. This means that if lecturer want to improve the leadership skills of their students, they can apply digital collaborative learning to their learning. Further research has the opportunity to examine the effectiveness of different digital collaborative learning media on leadership abilities.

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“…They showed that prior research found that only 55% of employers were satisfied with the wider generic skills demonstrated by graduates. Conversely, Edeigba (2022) shows that for New Zealand, employers are quite satisfied with a broad range of technical accounting (e.g., financial and managerial accounting) and generic skills, but a gap is identified between employers’ expectations regarding auditing and tax accounting skills. The German IDW (2020) found that the unattractiveness of the accounting profession is more an issue of graduates’ expectations not being met than professional activities.…”

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“…Social identity theory (Ashforth et al, 2008; Mael & Ashforth, 1992) combined with self-categorization theory (Hogg & Terry, 2000; Tajfel & Turner, 1986) outlines how being a member of a group affects self-perception. Expectation gap theory refers to the gap between the skills employers require and educators offer students (Asonitou & Hassall, 2019; Edeigba, 2022). Mael and Ashforth (1992) define professional identification as “the extent to which an individual defines himself according to the work he performs and according to the characteristics generally attributed to the people who perform that type of work” (p. 106), According to this definition, a group can be an organization that includes the whole entity, department, or a team (Hogg & Terry, 2000; van Knippenberg, 2000).…”

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Perceived Attractiveness of Tax Consultancy and Auditing Professions: Insights From a German-Speaking Area

2023

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Recruiting professionals in tax consultancy and auditing is becoming increasingly difficult in Germany and Austria. This study analyzes the attractive factors of a profession, specifically the tax consultancy and auditing profession, based on a survey of students ( n = 225) and practitioners ( n = 148) in a German-speaking setting. We find that the most attractive factors for tax consultancy and auditing are different company insights and consulting activities. Career opportunities and auditing activities are perceived as incentives to enter the auditing profession. Knowledge obtained during studies is perceived as less satisfactory for students compared to practitioners who assess it as good in retrospect. Students from different regions valued the tasks differently, which implies that strategies must be adapted to attract students. The number of accounting courses and internships significantly influenced career entry for both professions. Thus, higher education institutions are responsible for making professions more appealing to students.

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Employers’ expectations of accounting skills from vocational education providers: The expectation gap between employers and ITPs

Cited by 14 publications

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Gap Analysis of existing managerial skill set and the skills imparted by the management institutes for the IT Industry

Gap Analysis of existing managerial skill set and the skills imparted by the management institutes for the IT Industry

Efektivitas Digital Collaborative Learning Terhadap Kemampuan Leadership Mahasiswa Sarjana Terapan Akuntansi

Perceived Attractiveness of Tax Consultancy and Auditing Professions: Insights From a German-Speaking Area

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