Assessment of relevant generic skills in graduated accountants of an argentine university
Published 2022-07-21
Keywords
- generic skills,
- public accountant,
- accounting education
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Copyright (c) 2022 Fabiana Ribas, Darío Sánchez Abrego, Alina Girardelli Rivoir, María Victoria Hiadalgo García
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Abstract
The speed of change in the contents of occupations, as well as the need to deepen new skills, have facilitated the birth of a new concept in vocational training oriented towards the development of labor competencies whilst also identifying that the successful performance of professions requires the development of generic competencies as well as competencies specific to each occupation.
This paper addresses the measurement of the perception that graduates in Public Accounting have on the importance of transversal competences in the exercise of their profession, and on the development that these competences had during their university studies.
To carry out the work we used a descriptive cross-sectional non-experimental design. The survey was limited to graduates from the last 10 years, contacting them via email and collecting the data through an online questionnaire.
In line with other studies, we found that the ability to learn and constantly update themselves emerges as central for the respondents, coinciding with a very good assessment in terms of achievement, which implies that it is not only valued as important, but also is a competition that takes place in the university. We consider that this fact is of great interest for the management of those university careers which can offer specialization or updating programs that allow students to maintain or improve the level of said competence over time
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