Counting the cost, reconciling the benefits: understanding employer investment in Higher Apprenticeships in accounting

Accounting Education

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 502-518

  Gambin, Lynn ^a   Hogarth, Terence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AAT; accounting technicians; Apprenticeship; professional entry; trainees

Indexed keywords

EID: 84984697906     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639284.2016.1218779     Document Type: Article

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