To read this content please select one of the options below:

The Most Important Emerging Skills for Career Success: A Survey Analysis

Steven A. Harrast (Central Michigan University, College of Business Administration, School of Accounting, Mt. Pleasant, MI, USA)

Lori Olsen (Central Michigan University, College of Business Administration, School of Accounting, Mt. Pleasant, MI, USA)

Yan (Tricia) Sun (Central Michigan University, College of Business Administration, School of Accounting, Mt. Pleasant, MI, USA)

Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations

ISBN: 978-1-83797-173-2, eISBN: 978-1-83797-172-5

Publication date: 14 December 2023

Abstract

Prior research (Harrast, Olsen, & Sun, 2023) analyzes the eight emerging topics to be included in future CPA exams and discusses their importance to career success and appropriate teaching locus in light of survey evidence. They find that the general topic of data analytics is the most important of the eight emerging topics. To further understand the topics most important to career success, this study analyzes subtopics underlying the eight emerging topics. The results show that advanced Excel analysis tools, data visualization, and data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) are the most important data analytics subskills for career success according to professionals and that these topics should be both introduced and emphasized in the accounting curriculum. The results provide useful information to educators to prioritize general emerging topics and specific subtopics in the accounting curriculum by taking into account the most pressing needs of the profession.

Keywords

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgment

The authors would like to acknowledge the helpful assistance of the editor, Thomas G. Calderon, and two anonymous reviewers as well as financial support from the Central Michigan University College of Business and the School of Accounting Arthur Andersen research grant.

Citation

Harrast, S.A., Olsen, L. and Sun, Y.(. (2023), "The Most Important Emerging Skills for Career Success: A Survey Analysis", Calderon, T.G. (Ed.) Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations (Advances in Accounting Education, Vol. 27), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 3-27. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1085-462220230000027001

Publisher

:

Emerald Publishing Limited