Personal Transferable Skills in Accounting Education
About this ebook
Personal Transferable Skills in Accounting Education illustrates how generic skills are being embedded and evaluated in the accounting curriculum by academics from a range of perspectives. Each chapter provides an account of how the challenge of incorporating generic skills in the accounting curriculum within particular educational environments has been addressed.
The challenges involved in generic skills development in higher education have not been limited to the accounting discipline. This book provides examples which potentially inform a wide range of discipline areas. Academics will benefit from reading the experiences of incorporating generic skills in the accounting curriculum from across the globe.
This book was originally published as a themed issue of Accounting Education: an international journal.
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About the author
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.
