A Note on Structuring Employability Skills for Accounting Students

Jon Warwick and Anna Howard

International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 2015, vol. 5, issue 10, 165-174

Abstract: The development of soft and technical skills as part of tertiary education courses is key to enhancing the employability skills of graduating students. Within the accounting profession there is little agreement over which skills should be developed and a wide range have been suggested as relevant. A sample (n = 62) of higher education educators and industry practitioners were surveyed to elicit their assessments of the importance of a range of employability skills. Exploratory Factor Analysis was used to group the skills into six factors that helped to provide a better understanding of the skills and how they could be grouped for teaching purposes.

Keywords: Employability; soft skills; technical skills; factor analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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