...Satoshi Sugahara; Kazumi Suzuki; Gregory Boland Purpose The objective of this paper is to explore undergraduate students' self‐efficacy of their generic skills in an attempt to identify whether a student's choice of a major in accounting develops these types of skills. Design/methodology...

...Trevor Hassall; John Joyce; José Luis Arquero Montaño; José María González González Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify, prioritise, and contrast the needs in terms of the development of vocational skills in final year undergraduate accounting students from two distinct countries...

... Federation of Accountants, 1994) and in Australia (Mathews, 1990 ; Birkett, 1993). Concerns regarding students' technical, analytical and judgmental skills have been noted by Booth et al. (1999) and Davidson (2002) . Moving away from teaching methods that are procedural and that emphasise...

...Despina Whitefield; Louise Kloot Purpose The definition of individual generic skills is problematic, despite the pressure for the development of such skills during accounting degrees coming from government and employers. This study aims to present definitions to allow academics to establish...