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- Title
WHAT DOES THE EMPLOYER EXPECT OF THE COLLEGE GRADUATE?
- Authors
Cramer, D. H.
- Abstract
Everyone knows that every profession is concerned about the shortage of qualified students entering its field. According to the report, the majority of the schools studied require between 120 and 130 semester hours for graduation with a bachelor's degree, with no school requiring less than 120. The most common over-all division of the total number of hours was for 25 per cent to be devoted to accounting courses, 25 per cent to other business courses, and 50 per cent to nonbusiness courses. Many characteristics are expected of the college graduate including such intangible ones as integrity and ambition. One major criticism of accounting education is that many accounting instructors attempt to teach facts rather than to educate people. One of the unique characteristics of public accounting is the requirement to write memorandums, reports and letters. By far the most important training in public accounting is the day-to-day, on the job supervision. This is as true in memorandum writing as in the actual performance of the audit procedures and of course we devote to such supervision as much time as possible under the pressure of getting the job done.
- Subjects
ACCOUNTANTS; COLLEGE graduates; COLLEGE students; ACCOUNTING; EDUCATION; BUSINESS writing
- Publication
Accounting Review, 1957, Vol 32, Issue 1, p15
- ISSN
0001-4826
- Publication type
Article