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Advertised skills and characteristics of management accountants

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Abstract

There have been a number of articles about the changing profile of accountants in today’s environment. Recent debate is focusing on the goal congruence of educators and practitioners. Professional accounting bodies are also identifying the changing needs of the accounting professionals’ skill. This paper seeks to identify the key skills and characteristics of management accountants which are being looked for by employers in today’s market. Job advertising for management accountants were surveyed. The results indicated that communication skills were advertised the most frequently, marginally ahead of technical skills. Of the Characteristics leadership was most frequently advertised.

Item Type: Book Chapter
Uncontrolled Keywords: Skills, characteristics, management accountant, situations vacant, advertising, recruitment
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5601 Accounting
Divisions: Schools > Centre for Business, Information Technology and Enterprise > School of Business and Adminstration
Depositing User: Adrian France
Date Deposited: 01 Mar 2011 01:56
Last Modified: 21 Jul 2023 02:28
URI: http://researcharchive.wintec.ac.nz/id/eprint/863

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