Personal Transferable Skills in Accounting Education

Kim Watty is Professor of Accounting in the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance at Deakin University, Australia. She has published widely and completed major research projects in accounting education, both nationally and internationally, and is an Associate Editor of Accounting Education: an international journal. Beverley Jackling is Professor of Accounting at Victoria University, Australia. Her research interests include the educational aspects of business and accounting education. She has published widely in accounting education and been the recipient of numerous national and internationally competitive research grants and awards. She is an Associate Editor of Issues in Accounting Education. Richard M. S. Wilson is Emeritus Professor of Business Administration & Financial Management in the Business School, and Visiting Professor in the Department of Information Science, at Loughborough University, UK. He is the founding editor of Accounting Education: an international journal.

• 1. Introduction: Personal Transferable Skills in Accounting Education Kim Watty, Beverley Jackling and Richard M.S. Wilson 2. Generic Attributes in Accounting: The Significance of the Disciplinary Context Anna Jones 3. The Expectation-Performance Gap in Accounting Education: An Exploratory Study Binh Bui and Brenda Porter 4. Accounting Students’ Expectations and Transition Experiences of Supervised Work Experience Louise Gracia 5. A Whole-of-program Approach to the Development of Generic and Professional Skills in a University Accounting Program Lesley Willcoxson, Monte Wynder and Gregory K. Laing 6. Development of Generic Competencies: Impact of a Mixed Teaching Approach on Students’ Perceptions Anne Fortin and Michèle Legault 7. Embedding Generic Employability Skills in an Accounting Degree: Development and Impediments Greg Stoner and Margaret Milner 8. Knowledge and Skills Development of Accounting Graduates: The Perceptions of Graduates and Employers in Ghana Joseph Y. Awayiga, Joseph M. Onumah and Mathew Tsamenyi 9. The Acquisition of Generic Skills of Culturally-diverse Student Cohorts Monica Keneley and Beverley Jackling