Determining and Comparing Accounting Training Skills in Analytic Hierarchy Model

Abstract

Training courses in advanced countries have been determined by the interaction between experimental and educational environments that resulted in the success of activists in experimental fields. This issue in developing countries such as Iran is different, since it is perceived that there is a gap between educational environments and experimental areas. The aim of this study was to determine and prioritize the skills in accounting education, and to specify the prioritizing differences among the needed skills of accounting graduates in the perspectives of employers or audit partners and accounting staffs. In this study a survey questionnaire consistent with analytic hierarchy process was prepared, and then, distributed among the auditing partners and employees, selected by random sampling. The answers from 44 partners and 62 staffs indicated that the competence in communication skills and information technology, respectively, are the highest priorities for both of the partners and employees in auditing institutions. Also, using analysis of variance, we compared the comments from the two groups with each other. The result showed that there is no significant difference between the views of two groups.

Keywords

• accounting education curricula
• key skills
• certified accountant
• gap
• analytical hierarchy process