ProjectProject

Accounting for the future: more than numbers

Project Information

Year Funded:
2007
Grant (ex GST):
$99,657
Project Status:
Completed
Program:
Discipline Studies
Project Keywords:
Accounting, Communication, Critical thinking, Professional
Project Discipline:
Business, Management and Economics

Institutions

  • The University of Western Australia (Lead)
  • Charles Sturt University
  • Swinburne University of Technology
  • The University of Adelaide
  • University of Southern Queensland

Project Leader

  1. Associate Professor Phil Hancock
    The University of Western Australia
    phil [dot] hancock [at] uwa [dot] edu [dot] au

Project Outcome

This project is a collaborative, sector-wide investigation into the growing breadth of non-technical skills including communication, interpersonal and critical thinking skills which will be required of students who will graduate from university professional accounting programs over the next five to ten years.
The project will:

  1. Identify the general consensus as to the relative importance of key technical and non technical skills for graduates of professional accounting programs who have to meet the challenges of the profession over the next five to ten years.
  2. Identify the range of non technical skills required of professional accountants over the next five to ten years.
  3. Identify examples of best practice for the embedding of relevant non-technical skills in professional accounting programs.
  4. Widely disseminate findings to accounting programs in the higher education sector and other stakeholders using AFAANZ conference and other presentations and ALTC Exchange.

 

Project Methodology

  1. Literature review.
  2. Stakeholder profiling.
  3. Stakeholder interviews.
  4. Research on university approaches for embedding non-technical skills
  5. Student focus groups.

 

The information on this project's page was correct at the time of funding. Changes may have occurred since.

Resources

Accounting for the future: more than numbers. A collaborative investigation into the changing skill set for professional accounting graduates over the next ten years and strategies for embedding such skills into professional accounting programs

Resource Information

Year Published:
2009
Author/s:
Phil Hancock, Bryan Howieson, Marie Kavanagh, Jenny Kent, Irene Tempone, Naomi Segal
Institutions:
The University of Western Australia (Lead)
Charles Sturt University
Swinburne University of Technology
The University of Adelaide
University of Southern Queensland

Publications

File Size
Volume 1 - Final report1.17 MB
Volume 2 - Strategies for embedding non-technical skills into the accounting curricula1.1 MB

The information on this project's page was updated 21 August, 2009.

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