Which skills and competences to develop in accountants in a country in crisis?

Asonitou, Sofia; Hassall, Trevor

doi:10.1016/j.ijme.2019.100308

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“…Frequently, employers complain that graduates who enter the job market today are not equipped with the right set of soft skills that would enable them to integrate and contribute effectively at the workplace (Abdullah-Al-Mamun 2012) and some experts have explored this issue. For example, Asonitou and Hassall (2019) examined the incorporation of professional skills into Greek accounting education studies. The results indicated, on the one hand, that all stakeholder groups considered professional skills as important, but there were some differences in the importance assigned to relevant skills, and in how the educational process should develop them.…”

Section: Transversal Competences and Employability In Vet Studentsmentioning

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The relevance of transversal competences in vocational education and training: a bibliometric analysis

López

2020

Empirical Res Voc Ed Train

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Vocational Education and Training (VET) programmes have included the acquisition of transversal competences in their curricula as a tool to increase employability. The number of researches has exponentially grown in the last years, emphasizing its relevance and the multiple approaches and factors involved in the learning process. The present bibliometric study aims to provide an overview of the scientific research carried out during the last 10 years and to shed some light on several relevant topics in this field. The results indicate the need to improve students’ transversal competences in order to meet the demands of the labour market, the importance of the collaboration of all the actors involved in the process (policy makers, industry and educators) and from a pedagogical point of view, the necessity of introducing new teaching approaches to implement and assess the acquisition of transversal competences. However, and despite the surge of interest in the study of transversal competences in the last decade, further empirical research is needed, especially at Vocational Education and Training level, to understand how transversal competences develop and what kind of initiatives have an impact of their acquisition.

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Section: Transversal Competences and Employability In Vet Studentsmentioning

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The relevance of transversal competences in vocational education and training: a bibliometric analysis

López

2020

Empirical Res Voc Ed Train

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“…Students should be aware of their social and ethical responsibilities. The integration of multidisciplinary knowledge to solve problems will possibly lead them to better decision-making in favor of more RES investments [21,22]. Two typical cases in which willingness to invest in RES-based works is executively adapted to specific sectoral and spatial conditions are that of RES utility for biomass production [19,23] and electricity production [24,25], accordingly.…”

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Intelligent Predictive Analytics for Sustainable Business Investment in Renewable Energy Sources

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Willingness to invest in renewable energy sources (RES) is predictable under data mining classification methods. Data was collected from the area of Evia in Greece via a questionnaire survey by using a sample of 360 respondents. The questions focused on the respondents’ perceptions and offered benefits for wind energy, solar photovoltaics (PVs), small hydro parks and biomass investments. The classification algorithms of Bayesian Network classifier, Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machine (SVM), C4.5, k-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN) and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) were used. The Bayesian Network classifier was the best method, with a prediction accuracy of 0.7942. The most important variables for the prediction of willingness to invest were the level of information, the level of acceptance and the contribution to sustainable development. Future studies should include data on state incentives and their impact on willingness to invest.

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“…Tax is a primary source of a country's income (Wafroturrohmah and Suyatmini 2013). The govern-ment will allocate the income tax to finance infrastructure, education, telecommunication, and many other things to develop a country (Asonitou and Hassall 2019). Therefore, the paradigm that paying tax is an obligation should be changed since paying tax is also a right to finance and invest in the country (Nathania and Davianti 2018).…”

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“…According to the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), globalization pushes accountants to have excellent skills and competences, teamwork, leadership, problem-solving ability, and analyzing skills (Rebele & St. Pierre 2019). Critical thinking and intellectual skills enable a professional accountant to solve problems, prepare judgments and decisions in complex organizational situations (Asonitou & Hassall 2019). These competences do not develop quickly over a short period (Papageorgiou & Callaghan 2020, Rebele & St. Pierre 2019.…”

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Refining Tax Accounting Education to Improve Accounting Students Skills and Competences

Susanto¹,

Alimbudiono²

2021

Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Management (INSYMA 2021)

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This study aims to explore the refining way in tax accounting education to improve the students skills and competences. It is applied research, focusing on some applied recommendations; Data was collected through interviews with students and lecturers, observations, and document analysis with 13 participants. Participants are also invited to do some tax cases. Findings show that tax accounting education plays a significant role in students basic taxation knowledge, skills, and competences. This is very fruitful to prepare them when they want to have a career in the taxation field. However, they were not very skilled in doing complex tax cases in the real condition. This study is beneficial for accounting educators to refine the curriculum and tax accountants to identify further taxation skills and competences needed for young accountants. This study tries to evaluate the broad skills and competences of students. Further studies can be expanded to more detailed skills and competences so that users can improve the tax accounting syllabus.

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Which skills and competences to develop in accountants in a country in crisis?

Cited by 37 publications

References 59 publications

The relevance of transversal competences in vocational education and training: a bibliometric analysis

The relevance of transversal competences in vocational education and training: a bibliometric analysis

Intelligent Predictive Analytics for Sustainable Business Investment in Renewable Energy Sources

Refining Tax Accounting Education to Improve Accounting Students Skills and Competences

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