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Technology Advancement Influence In Accounting And Information System Fields, Shannon Gordon

Accounting Undergraduate Honors Theses

This research serves to relate the accounting and information technology fields. The information in the research documents changes in the accounting and information technology fields, and how the fields are expected to change in the coming years. The research also discuss the relationship between the accounting and information technology fields. The topics on the ideal accounting candidates for employers and the expectation gap between graduates skills and employers’ expectations are also discussed. Careers in accounting and information systems and also similar and different basic skills of both fields are documented in the research.

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An Empirical Investigation Of Personal Characteristics Significantly Affecting Employment Offers From International Accounting Firms To Accounting Graduates, John M. Alvis

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The basis for this study was the desire of many accounting students to gain employment with international accounting firms and to know which personal characteristics affect employment offers. Some issues addressed by this thesis follow. (1) What student characteristics had significant effects on employment offers? (2) What were significant differences in characteristics of female/male students receiving offers? (3) What were significant differences in successful/unsuccessful male students? Female students? (4) Which characteristics were important predictors of salary-offer size? (5) Were reasons for selecting accounting careers related to receiving employment offers? (6) Was there discrimination because of sex regarding employment offers? (7) …