Characteristics of Accountancy Education

School of Accountancy MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING EDUCATION: IS THERE A GAP BETWEEN ACADEMIA AND PRACTITIONER PERCEPTIONS?

A mail survey was conducted of all Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand accredited Tertiary Education Institutions and 300 randomly selected New Zealand companies to ascertain the views of management accounting academics and practitioners on the contents of management accounting courses and the skills and competencies of recent graduates. The results show that practitioners placed ...

Department Accountancy, Finance and Insurance, K.U.Leuven

Racialized Gendering of the Accountancy Profession: towards an Understanding of Chinese Women’s Experiences in Accountancy in New Zealand

In the last two decades or so there has been lively academic and political debate about the continued gendering process of the accountancy profession. Less attention, however, has been given to the impact of racialization of the accountancy profession on the lives of ethnic minorities and even less attention to ethnic minority women. Yet a growing body of evidence has forced critical researcher...

Assessing the Geographic Representativity of Farm Accountancy Data

The environment affects agriculture, via soils, weather, etc. and agriculture affects the environment locally at farm level and via its impact on climate change. Locating agriculture within its spatial environment is thus important for farmers and policy makers. Within the EU countries collect detailed farm data to understand the technical and financial performance of farms; the Farm Accountanc...

Evaluating EMS Value - The Case of a Small Accountancy Firm

This paper discusses the evaluation of Electronic Meeting Systems (EMS). More specifically, it tackles the problem of evaluating the perceived organizational value of these systems. EMS lay down one sub area of research crossing Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Group Support Systems (GSS) in particular and information systems in general. Based on these multiple perspectives, we de...