Skillset to assimilate information technologies in accounting SMEs
Competence in operating IT on one hand aids the routine business activities related to an accountants’ work, and on the other helps them create an environment where these technologies operate at their optimum level for the strategic internal and external advantage of the business. Recent studies ind...
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my.uum.repo.147882016-04-14T06:13:45Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/14788/ Skillset to assimilate information technologies in accounting SMEs Ku Bahador, Ku Maisurah Haider, Abrar HB Economic Theory Competence in operating IT on one hand aids the routine business activities related to an accountants’ work, and on the other helps them create an environment where these technologies operate at their optimum level for the strategic internal and external advantage of the business. Recent studies indicate that accounting businesses are now customer oriented, information driven, project based, flatter in structure, and consist of a number of functional and cross functional teams. An all-encompassing skill set for accountants is therefore required, which not only caters for IT skills but also accounts for organisational, human, and interpersonal skills. This chapter emphasises that a multi-dimensional view of skills is imperative for developing IT competencies.It presents an empirically tested integrated and complementary framework for competency development consisting of technical, organisational, people and conceptual skill dimensions.In doing so, this framework focuses on technical skills and calls for skills in areas that complement technical knowledge, so as to institutionalise competency development as an ongoing activity of an accountant’s professional lifecycle. IGI Global Haider, Abrar 2015 Book Section PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/14788/1/34.pdf Ku Bahador, Ku Maisurah and Haider, Abrar (2015) Skillset to assimilate information technologies in accounting SMEs. In: Business Technologies in Contemporary Organizations. IGI Global, pp. 122-154. ISBN 9781466666238 http://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6623-8.ch006 doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-6623-8.ch006 |
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Competence in operating IT on one hand aids the routine business activities related to an accountants’ work, and on the other helps them create an environment where these technologies operate at their optimum level for the strategic internal and external advantage of the business. Recent studies indicate that accounting businesses are now customer oriented, information driven, project based, flatter in structure, and consist of a number of functional and cross functional teams. An all-encompassing skill set for accountants is therefore required, which not only caters for IT skills but also accounts for
organisational, human, and interpersonal skills. This chapter emphasises that a multi-dimensional view of skills is imperative for developing IT competencies.It presents an empirically tested integrated and complementary framework for competency development consisting of technical, organisational, people and conceptual skill dimensions.In doing so, this framework focuses on technical skills and calls for skills in areas that complement technical knowledge, so as to institutionalise competency development as an ongoing activity of an accountant’s professional lifecycle. |
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