Embedding generic employability skills in an accounting degree: Development and impediments

Accounting Education

Volumn 19, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 123-138

  Stoner, Greg ^a   Milner, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accounting education; Employability; Intellectual development; Learning to learn; Modelling; Skills; Time management

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960009484     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639280902888229     Document Type: Article

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