Emotional intelligence in undergraduate accounting students: Preliminary assessment

Accounting Education

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 439-454

  Bay, Darlene ^a   McKeage, Kim ^b  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

accounting students; Emotional intelligence; MSCEIT; soft skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 65049085285     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639280601011131     Document Type: Article

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