Developing soft skills (also known as pervasive skills)

Viviers, Herman Albertus; Fouché, Jaco; Reitsma, Gerda

doi:10.1108/medar-07-2015-0045

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“…The empirical results of this study, namely that simulation is perceived by training officers to be effective in the evaluation of competency in management accounting skill areas, are supported by the literature as both Van der Merwe (2013) and Viviers et al (2016) found simulation to be invaluable to learning.…”

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“…De Villiers (2015) recently concluded that the development of a simulation instrument in specifically audit education is invaluable to learning. A study by Viviers, Fouché and Reitsma (2016), however, revealed that active learning methods are developed on all areas of financial accounting, auditing, managerial accounting and finance, but none on taxation. Consequently, an educational game was developed to evaluate taxationrelated competencies.…”

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The development of management accounting skills in situations where practical exposure is limited: The perceptions of training officers in South Africa

Bishop

2019

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Training office auditing firms in South Africa are required by the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) training regulations to provide basic exposure to trainees on management accounting learning outcomes that are covered in theoretical aspects at tertiary education level.The purpose of this article was to determine (1) the ways in which large, medium-sized and small training office auditing firms in South Africa evaluate the competency of trainee accountants in the field of management accounting, (2) to what extent alternative skills transfer methods are used and (3) the perceptions of training officers of the use of simulation as a skills transfer method. These were done to identify learning outcome areas of which skills can already be developed at tertiary level, due to the lack of real-life exposure in practice. It is argued that the responsibility of developing skills of students in areas where practical exposure is limited lies with higher education institutions and not training office auditing firms. A web-based questionnaire was used.This study showed that simulated training, either in-house, outsourced or a combination of the two, is actively used by a number of training office auditing firms in South Africa in order to assess competency in the field of management accounting where practical exposure through performing actual tasks is limited. Skill development simulated training are therefore proposed to be introduced at tertiary level to enable entry-level trainees to be equipped for practice. The study also revealed that training officers perceive simulation to be effective in the assessment of competency in management accounting residual skills competency areas. Simulation can therefore be seen as a valuable tool to use by higher education institutions in order to transfer skills in management accounting to its students.The research is valuable to higher education institutions (with enrolled students studying towards becoming registered chartered accountants (CA) in South Africa) and SAICA (that develops the learning outcomes followed by these institutions through its syllabi), because it does not only provide an overview of how skills in management accounting are transferred to trainee accountants, but it also provides opportunities for syllabi re-alignments and simulated training at tertiary level.

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The development of management accounting skills in situations where practical exposure is limited: The perceptions of training officers in South Africa

Bishop

2019

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“…Mixed methods are generally characterised by a combination of questionnaires and focus groups or interviews (Stone 2015;Viviers et al 2016). Qualitative methods involve action research (Kirstein & Kunz 2015), case studies (Kirstein & Kunz 2016), focus group discussions (Barac et al 2016), and interviews (Atkins & Maroun 2015).…”

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“…Stainbank and Gurr (2016) study whether accounting students in South Africa find social networking sites useful for their learning. Viviers, Fouché and Reitsma (2016) evaluate the usefulness of an educational game to develop soft skills. Van Oordt and Mulder (2016) describe the consequences of implementing basic e-learning tools in an undergraduate taxation curriculum.…”

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A review of accounting research in internationalising journals in the South African region

Villiers

Hsiao

2017

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Background: This study analyses the accounting research articles published by South African journals.Aim and setting: A review of accounting research in internationalising journals in the South African region that publish accounting research.Methods: The characteristics of accounting articles were analysed. Five journals were analysed, including the four internationalising journals, Investment Analysts Journal, Meditari Accountancy Research, South African Journal of Business Management, and South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences and one local journal, South African Journal of Accounting Research (SAJAR).Results: The findings of this study will be of interest to journal editors, authors who would like their research to make an impact and be cited, as well as university research administrators and government higher education policy-makers.Conclusion: The analyses show that many of the highly cited articles have been published recently, boding well for the citation statistics of these journals in future and indicating some success in their efforts to internationalise. The citations of SAJAR lag behind the citations of the internationalising journals. Each journal publishes articles that cover different subject area(s). Within accounting research, accounting education and social and environmental accounting are popular areas of research, whereas taxation; the public sector; and management accounting are not well represented among published articles during 2015–2016 in these five journals. About half of all accounting articles claim their insights will contribute to the accounting literature, with much smaller percentages claiming to contribute to management, policy-making and practice. The most prolific authors and most prominent universities to some extent follow the most popular subject areas, with a social and environmental researcher, Warren Maroun, featuring strongly, and his university, the University of the Witwatersrand, being prominent. Large proportions of authors of 2015–2016 articles are from outside of Africa, speaking to the success of the internationalisation efforts of the internationalising journals, whereas SAJAR mostly publishes articles by African authors.

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FLIGBY: The Serious Game Harnessing Flow Experience for Leadership Development

Risley

Buzády

2022

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Developing soft skills (also known as pervasive skills)

Cited by 44 publications

References 44 publications

The development of management accounting skills in situations where practical exposure is limited: The perceptions of training officers in South Africa

The development of management accounting skills in situations where practical exposure is limited: The perceptions of training officers in South Africa

A review of accounting research in internationalising journals in the South African region

FLIGBY: The Serious Game Harnessing Flow Experience for Leadership Development

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