Employers’ perception on skill competencies and the actual performance of bachelor of accounting graduates in Malaysia
The concern over the skills of local accounting graduates is not new. Of late it has become a national issue when local accounting graduates are criticized for being incompetent in the workplace due to their lack of skills that are desired by employers. This study is undertaken with the aim of ident...
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| author | Norman, Siti Norain Abdul Latiff, Ahmed Razman Mohd Said, Ridzwana |
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| description | The concern over the skills of local accounting graduates is not new. Of late it has become a national issue when local accounting graduates are criticized for being incompetent in the workplace due to their lack of skills that are desired by employers. This study is undertaken with the aim of identifying the expectation-performance gap between employers’ perception and the actual performance of Malaysian Bachelor of Accounting graduates. It is based on a survey of employers in Malaysia. The data was collected through a mail questionnaire survey which taps the perceptions of employers from both audit and non-audit firm on fresh local accounting graduates. There were 16 types of skill competencies identified in this study. The result from t-test indicates that there is an expectation-performance gap between employers’ perception and actual performance of Bachelor of Accounting graduates. Bachelor of Accounting graduates’ actual performance is lower than what employers expect from them. |
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| spelling | upm-725592020-10-30T04:31:49Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/72559/ Employers’ perception on skill competencies and the actual performance of bachelor of accounting graduates in Malaysia Norman, Siti Norain Abdul Latiff, Ahmed Razman Mohd Said, Ridzwana The concern over the skills of local accounting graduates is not new. Of late it has become a national issue when local accounting graduates are criticized for being incompetent in the workplace due to their lack of skills that are desired by employers. This study is undertaken with the aim of identifying the expectation-performance gap between employers’ perception and the actual performance of Malaysian Bachelor of Accounting graduates. It is based on a survey of employers in Malaysia. The data was collected through a mail questionnaire survey which taps the perceptions of employers from both audit and non-audit firm on fresh local accounting graduates. There were 16 types of skill competencies identified in this study. The result from t-test indicates that there is an expectation-performance gap between employers’ perception and actual performance of Bachelor of Accounting graduates. Bachelor of Accounting graduates’ actual performance is lower than what employers expect from them. International Academic Institute For Science And Technology 2018 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/72559/1/Employers%E2%80%99%20perception%20on%20skill%20competencies%20.pdf Norman, Siti Norain and Abdul Latiff, Ahmed Razman and Mohd Said, Ridzwana (2018) Employers’ perception on skill competencies and the actual performance of bachelor of accounting graduates in Malaysia. International Academic Journal of Accounting and Financial Management, 5 (2). 88 - 95. ISSN 2454-2350 http://iaiest.com/abstract.php?id=5&archiveid=663 10.9756/IAJAFM/V5I2/1810019 |
| spellingShingle | Norman, Siti Norain Abdul Latiff, Ahmed Razman Mohd Said, Ridzwana Employers’ perception on skill competencies and the actual performance of bachelor of accounting graduates in Malaysia |
| title | Employers’ perception on skill competencies and the actual performance of bachelor of accounting graduates in Malaysia |
| title_full | Employers’ perception on skill competencies and the actual performance of bachelor of accounting graduates in Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | Employers’ perception on skill competencies and the actual performance of bachelor of accounting graduates in Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Employers’ perception on skill competencies and the actual performance of bachelor of accounting graduates in Malaysia |
| title_short | Employers’ perception on skill competencies and the actual performance of bachelor of accounting graduates in Malaysia |
| title_sort | employers’ perception on skill competencies and the actual performance of bachelor of accounting graduates in malaysia |
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