A STUDY OF THE GAP BETWEEN THE EXPECTED SPECIALIZED SKILLS OF ACCOUNTING GRADUATES AND ACTUAL LEVEL IN IRAN

Mahdi Salehi ()
Additional contact information
Mahdi Salehi: Assistant Professor, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

Far East Journal of Psychology and Business, 2013, vol. 12 No 1 Paper 2 July, issue 2, 10-33

Abstract: Need for valuable experience and knowledge as well as support for graduates are the requirements of growth in societies. The purpose of the present research was to study the difference between the expected general, administrative, and specialized skills of accounting graduates and their actual condition. This research was an applied study in which the data collected using a questionnaire and was analyzed suing Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis one way ANOVA. The population of the research consisted of auditors, financial statement preparers, and financial statement users. The results showed significant differences between the expected and the actual skills of graduates. Also group comparison suggested significant differences in terms of the expected skills, but no significant difference was observed between these groups in their actual skills.

Keywords: Expected Skills; Actual Skills; Accounting Graduates. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.fareastjournals.com/files/FEJPBV12N1P2.pdf (application/pdf)
http://www.fareastjournals.com/archive_detail.aspx?jid=18&aid=39 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fej:articl:v:12a:y:2013:i:2:p:10-33

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Far East Journal of Psychology and Business from Far East Research Centre
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jim Chau ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).