The Communication Skills of Accountants: What we Know and the Gaps in our Knowledge

Siriwardane, Harshini P.; Durden, Chris

doi:10.1080/09639284.2013.847329

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“…Siriwardane and Durden (2014) critically review 19 studies published between 1972 and 2012 to investigate the written and/or oral communication skills of practicing accountants. In the studies they found, oral communication skills were commonly ranked by practicing accountants as being more important than written communication skills.…”

Section: International Journal Of Accounting and Financial Reportingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus Siriwardane and Durden (2014) suggested that accounting educators could engage communication specialists to identify the needs and expectations of practicing accountants, accounting educators through accounting program design and innovative teaching methods. In addition, accounting firms and professional may provide generic skills training to their newly employed accounting graduates revealing of all the views of accounting graduates and professional.…”

Section: International Journal Of Accounting and Financial Reportingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Importance of Generic Skills in Accounting Education: Evidence from Egypt

Hussein

2017

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Nowadays, globalization, new economic challenges and innovations in information technologies (IT) influenced the role and domain of professional accountants. The current accreditation requirements and educational frameworks of the contemporary accounting profession emphasize the importance of broad 'generic skills'. This research aims to fill the gap in studying generic skills in Egypt by examining the importance of generic skills in accounting education. The research results are consistent with the International Education Standard IES 3 and several studies, and highlighted the importance of five factors: intellectual and communication, interpersonal, creative ability, organization, research and analytical skills. Moreover, it is recommended that universities in Egypt should reevaluate their accounting education process and establish strong links with professional accounting firms.

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Section: International Journal Of Accounting and Financial Reportingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: International Journal Of Accounting and Financial Reportingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Importance of Generic Skills in Accounting Education: Evidence from Egypt

Hussein

2017

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“…Business communications have a special purpose of informing a product or an idea; collaborating; influencing others people to take actionlimited geographical locations, such as Australia, New Zealand, UK, Singapore, and the US. In Asian countries, China for example, compared to the USA, the need for communication skills by educators and accounting professionals is lower [13].…”

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“…In addition to research on the analysis of the needs of the accounting graduates, other studies focus on the learning curriculum of communication practices in education to prepare careers as accountants graduates [14]. It is recommended that synergy between teachers, practitioners, and communication especially in designing an accounting education program is recommended [15].…”

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The Types of Communication Used in Workplace

Wijayanti¹

2017

Proceedings of the 4th Asia Pacific Education Conference (AECON 2017)

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Abstract-The academic ability (hard skills) in today's global era is not enough to prepare graduates to enter the workplace. This ability needs to be balanced with the mastery of soft skills that can help to achieve success in social life. One of the important components of soft skills mastered in the workplace is communication. This research aims to identify the types of oral and written communications along with the language used in the business by accounting scholars. This study used descriptive qualitative and quantitative methods. Respondents in this study were graduates of accounting from several universities in Jakarta, thirteen people, male and female, had worked for at least two years, and native speakers of the bahasa Indonesia. Data collection technique is done by spreading the questionnaires by asking respondents to choose the types of communication done in their workplace in accordance with their professions. Besides the questionnaires, this study used semi-structured interviews. The interview results are then verbatim transcribed. Interview transcripts will be interpreted to mean the purpose of the study. The results of the questionnaire will be described by calculating the frequency and percentage. The results of this study indicate that in oral communication respondents interact more over the telephone (85%) and discuss with colleagues or leaders (53.8%). In writing communication respondents use email (77%) and memo (46,2%). The language used in calling, discussing and writing memos is bahasa Indonesia, while both English and bahasa Indonesia are used to writing emails. This study concluded that oral and written communications are equally important to be mastered by accounting graduates in the work life. English becomes important used in written communication to send and reply to emails.

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E-learning in Accounting Programmes in Hong Kong: Evolution and Effectiveness

Wong

Yau

2017

Blended Learning. New Challenges and Innovative Practices

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The Communication Skills of Accountants: What we Know and the Gaps in our Knowledge

Cited by 37 publications

References 21 publications

Importance of Generic Skills in Accounting Education: Evidence from Egypt

Importance of Generic Skills in Accounting Education: Evidence from Egypt

The Types of Communication Used in Workplace

E-learning in Accounting Programmes in Hong Kong: Evolution and Effectiveness

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