Greg Stoner
Accounting Students' IT Application Skills over a 10-year Period
University of Glasgow
paper reports changing nature range information technology application skills students declare entering accounting degree period 1996 2006 accounting educators need aware skills students bring university implications learning teaching within discipline importance general specific skills within practice craft accounting additionally skills constitute significant element within portfolio employability skills increasingly demanded employers emphasized within overall higher education agenda analysis students reported application skills entry university across range relevant areas use accounting suggest skills continued improve time however significant differential patterns change years within cohorts paper addresses generalizability findings discusses implications factors accounting educators including importance recognising differences potentially masked general increase skills need research changing nature implications gender gap entrants application skills low levels entrants spreadsheet database skills cause concern