Professional Skills Requirements for Accountants: Analysis of Accounting Job Advertisements

This study provides a new insight to the accounting literature by investigating the most required skills for accountants through the analysis of job advertisements. This study obtained 523 job advertisements from an online job seeker website in accounting including financial accountants, auditors, a...

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Published inJurnal ASET (Akuntansi Riset) (Online) Vol. 12; no. 2; pp. 212 - 226
Main Authors Ghani, Mohammad Abdul, Suryani, Ani Wilujeng
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Indonesian
Published Program Studi Akuntansi 29.12.2020
Subjects
accountant
content analysis
job ads
professional skills
technical skills
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Summary:This study provides a new insight to the accounting literature by investigating the most required skills for accountants through the analysis of job advertisements. This study obtained 523 job advertisements from an online job seeker website in accounting including financial accountants, auditors, and tax accountants. By using content analysis, the results of the study show that interpersonal and communication skills are considered to be the most important skills for accountants, especially in Indonesia. In addition, the findings show the importance of foreign language skills in obtaining a job. However, based on the comparison with similar studies in Australia and New Zealand, technical skills are ranked more important in Indonesia. This study implies that accounting education should stress more on the softskills rather than technical skills to generate work-ready accountants.
ISSN:2086-2563
2541-0342
DOI:10.17509/jaset.v12i2.26202