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Role of tax knowledge and skills: What are the graduate skills required by small to medium accounting firms
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Abstract
Smallandmediumaccounting(SMA)firmscanaccountforapproximately40percentofgraduaterecruitmentinAustralia.DoesthecontextofobtainingemploymentwithaSMAfirm require graduates to have certain knowledge and skills?This article reportsthefindings of a study into the technical and generic skills required by graduatescommencing employment within an Australian SMA firm. The findings suggest thattogether with financial statement and reporting, tax knowledge is highly valued forgraduatestoaSMAfirm.Intermsoftax,thisalsoincludestheabilitytousetaxsoftware.Also,thegenericskillsofcommunication,teamworkandethicsarehighlyregarded.Thisraises the question as to whether current university degrees are providing adequatetechnicalandgenericskilldevelopmentforthosegraduatesseekingemploymentwithaSMAfirm.
Item Type: | Article |
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Authors/Creators: | Hayes, S and Freudenberg, BD and Delaney, D |
Keywords: | accounting, graduates, technical skills, generic skills, small to medium accounting firms, employment, work-ready |
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of the Australasian Tax Teachers Association |
Publisher: | Australasian Tax Teachers Association |
ISSN: | 1832-911X |
Copyright Information: | Copyright JATTA 2020 |
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