Professional Skills Required by Management Accountants: Employer Expectations from Entry-Level Graduates

Running Head: APPLIED BUSINESS RESEARCH
Professional skills are required by the management accountant: what are employers
seeking from entry-level graduates

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Executive Summary
The primary purpose of this research is to address the professional skills which are required
by the management accountant: what are employers seeking from entry-level graduates.
Moreover, the research proposal is to offer the outline of the design of research. Moreover,
this research is based on determining the topic of determining skills and employees
requirements from the graduates at the time of entering the management accounting
profession. Moreover, the research purpose is to comprehend liabilities carried out by the
management account with respect to improving the fresh graduate’s skills. This report also
demonstrates the research topic, research design, and research purpose with respect to the
current matter.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Research topic........................................................................................................................3
Background of the research....................................................................................................3
Overview of Industry..............................................................................................................3
Research Motivation...............................................................................................................4
Purpose of Research Study.....................................................................................................4
Summary of Research Objectives and Research Questions...................................................4
Research questions.................................................................................................................4
Summary of literature review.....................................................................................................5
Methodology..............................................................................................................................5
Results (findings) and discussion...............................................................................................8
Skills that are sought by employers from management accountants?....................................8
How does this different across the industry or company on work is?....................................8
What is the competitiveness of the industry and its growth rate?..........................................9
Conclusion, recommendation, and limitation..........................................................................10
Conclusion............................................................................................................................10
Recommendation..................................................................................................................10
Limitation.............................................................................................................................11
References................................................................................................................................12

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APPLIED BUSINESS RESEARCH
Introduction
Research topic
This research topic is to evaluate the professional skills which are required by the
management accountant: what are employers seeking from entry-level graduates.
Background of the research
In the existing business scenario, it is compulsory for the management team to examine
professional skills as it could be imperative to obtain a positive result. It is also imperative for
the continued growth of the organization at the global level (Ahadiat and Martin, 2015).
Therefore, it is effective for the organization to improve the skills and workforce’s
knowledge as it would be imperative for improving the firm performance and maintain the
competitiveness of the organization. Herein, training and development practices could be
imperative in increasing the internal capabilities of the workforces. The stakeholders could
also play an imperative role in increasing the growth of the organization in limited time and
cost. For sustaining the image of the organization, the firm has implied creative training and
development actions to facilitate the workforces and increase their abilities to offer of the
firm (Lim, et al., 2016).
Overview of Industry
Accounting industry of Australia is more famous than another state. In Australia, Accounting
industry considers approximately 34 associates and 243 specialist that offers certain services
to their listed organization like a tax, advisory services, and breadth of accounting. The
government of Australia facilitates the organization to start their business and get a higher
outcome. Moreover, the stable government nature could provide an opportunity to obtain
higher competitive benefits (Abayadeer and Watty, 2014).