Teaching pervasive skills to South African accounting students

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dc.contributor.author Barac, Karin
dc.contributor.author Du Plessis, Leana
dc.date.accessioned 2014-06-06T06:18:14Z
dc.date.available 2014-06-06T06:18:14Z
dc.date.issued 2014
dc.description.abstract Professional accountants need to retain and maintain a broad skills set. In response to this need, the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) emphasises the mastering of pervasive skills in its competency framework and expects South African universities offering its accredited programmes to produce graduates able to demonstrate such skills at acceptable levels of competence upon entry into the workplace. This study investigates the manner in which SAICA-accredited South African universities offer and teach pervasive skills, and attempts to determine whether heads of departments have identified the teaching of these skills as being the responsibility of the university, or not. These views were solicited through an e-mailed questionnaire. The study found that although the development of pervasive skills is an outcome largely included in these accredited undergraduate programmes, their presentation and integration into the courses vary considerably, and more integration of pervasive skills into course majors should be considered. Teaching methods and practices followed by the universities show significant diversity, and this result corresponds with those reported elsewhere in the literature. It is a concern that there is only limited use of research-based projects in these undergraduate programmes. An interesting finding of the study was that heads of departments perceive the acquisition of some pervasive skills to be best achieved in the real-world, practical workplace, rather than in the theoretical confines of the universities' lectures and tutorials. en_US
dc.description.librarian am2014 en_US
dc.description.uri http://www.unisa.ac.za/sabusinessreview en_US
dc.identifier.citation Barac, K 2014, 'Teaching pervasive skills to South African accounting students', Southern African Business Review, vol. 18, no. 1, pp.53-79. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1561-896X (print)
dc.identifier.issn 1998-8125 (online)
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/40017
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher College of Economic and Management Sciences, University of South Africa en_US
dc.rights © 2013, Southern African Business Review, College of Economic and Management Sciences, University of South Africa en_US
dc.subject Pervasive skills en_US
dc.subject Generic skills en_US
dc.subject South African chartered accountants en_US
dc.subject Competency framework en_US
dc.subject Teaching methods en_US
dc.subject Teaching practices en_US
dc.subject Learning en_US
dc.subject Assessment en_US
dc.subject Research projects en_US
dc.subject Employability en_US
dc.title Teaching pervasive skills to South African accounting students en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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