Using practitioners' viewpoints to improve accounting students' communications skills

Business Communication Quarterly

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 41-56

  Nellermoe, Donald A ^a   Weirich, Thomas R ^a   Reinstein, Alan ^b  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounting education; Cccounting practitioners; Communication skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 8844259809     PISSN: 10805699     EISSN: 15524191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/108056999906200205     Document Type: Article

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