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The capability and competency requirements of auditors in today's complex global business environment. (2016)
Report
BARAC, K., GAMMIE, E., HOWIESON, B. and VAN STADEN, M. 2016. The capability and competency requirements of auditors in today's complex global business environment. Edinburgh: ICAS [online]. Available from: https://www.icas.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/239457/The-capability-and-competency-requirements-of-auditors-in-todays-complex-global-business-environment.pdf

In 2013 ICAS and the UK Financial Reporting Council (FRC) commissioned two international teams of researchers to undertake studies to investigate what mix of attributes, competencies, professional skills and qualities need to be combined in an audit... Read More about The capability and competency requirements of auditors in today's complex global business environment..

Contemporary challenges facing the South African accounting profession: issues of selection, recruitment and transformation. (2016)
Thesis
COETZEE, S.A. 2016. Contemporary challenges facing the South African accounting profession: issues of selection, recruitment and transformation. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

This thesis aims to illuminate, through the lens of Murphys interpretation of Webers theory of social exclusion, contemporary challenges faced by the South African accounting profession pertaining to the shortage of professional accountants. In parti... Read More about Contemporary challenges facing the South African accounting profession: issues of selection, recruitment and transformation..

A strategizing-as-practice perspective of the 'advice process' of small business owners. (2016)
Thesis
EJIOGU, A.R. 2016. A strategizing-as-practice perspective of the 'advice process' of small business owners. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

This study examines the processes of advice seeking by small business owners and employs a Strategy-as-Practice perspective. The analysis of the data from 33 small business owners identified eleven factors that influenced the processes. These include... Read More about A strategizing-as-practice perspective of the 'advice process' of small business owners..