Dr. (Mrs.) Ngozi Benedetti Nwali Department of Business Education Ebonyi State College of Education Ikwo.
Abstract.
This study seeks to identify the various accounting skills that would promote self reliance among accounting graduates in Nigeria. A total of 21 skills were identified as verifiable tools that could aid accounting graduates in becoming self reliant. The population for the study is 124 respondents comprising 16 accounting lecturers and 108 accounting students drawn from the selected tertiary institutions in Enugu State. All the questionnaire distributed were all properly completed and returned back to the researcher. Using mean, standard deviation and t-test statistics it was discovered that out of the 124 respondents comprising 16 lecturers from Higher institutions of learning and 108 students drawn from both college of education and polytechnics, result revealed that 11 of the 24 scored highest 5 average and 6 poor. The impact of this finding is that graduate of accounting must as a matter of fact endeavour to possess these 17 qualities if they must be productive and relevant to the modern day accounting.
Keywords: Accounting Skills, Self Reliance, Employers Expectations.
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