Enhancing students’ employability skills awareness through the accounting professional body on an undergraduate accounting degree

Employability skills in the Master of Professional Accounting : One school ’ s journey

This paper describes the efforts made by the School of Accounting, Finance and Economics at Edith Cowan University (ECU) to address concerns expressed by the accounting profession, employer groups, higher education reviews and universities regarding the employability of accounting graduates and the need for accounting graduates to demonstrate a higher level of competence in non-technical skills...

Preparing accounting students for success in the professional environment: enhancing self-efficacy through a work integrated learning program

The Relationship between Ethical Orientation and Professional Socialization of Accounting Students

Background: The issue of professional socialization is very important in accounting. Failure to transfer professional values to accounting students may harm both the profession and its students. Individuals must adapt to all the values and norms of their chosen profession. Studying different aspects of professional socialization and the factors that affect it can provide a basis for improving t...

Generic Skills to Reduce Failure Rates in an Undergraduate Accounting Information System Course

This paper reports on an initiative to reduce the failure rate in an undergraduate accounting information systems course without compromising academic standards. The initiative relied on the development of generic skills in the major assessment tasks. The result was to significantly improve the amount of effort students applied to their internal assessment tasks and also to reduce the overall f...

PsyCap to Promote & Assess Professional Skills for Undergraduate Engineering Students

The purpose of this proposed study is to determine if Psychological Capital (PsyCap), collective orientation, and learning goal-orientation can assess the impact of the development of the following ABET student outcomes: teamwork (d), ethics (f), communication (g), life-long learning (i) and awareness of contemporary issues (j), throughout an engineering student’s academic career. We hypothesiz...