How can an academic accounting education remain relevant given that the use of technology is transforming the role of the accountant?

Technology use has led to entry level roles within professional firms and commercial finance departments disappearing while creating career opportunities which require different skills. Traditional accounting education curriculum appears ill equipped to instil such skills into graduates, decreasing their employment opportunities, and threatening the relevance of accounting education to the professional bodies (PABs). The objective of this study is to provide accounting faculty with a curriculum framework which enhances accounting education relevance and increase the employability of accounting graduates. Understanding multiple perspectives (‘realities’) of the obstacles to creating a more relevant accounting education curriculum is required. By adopting a qualitative interpretivist approach, a clearer awareness of the issues surrounding accounting education curriculum change emerges as the interactions and relationships between stakeholders are investigated. Using Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA) to analyse semi structured interviews, several themes emerged. This study makes several important contributions to the existing body of knowledge. Firstly, it argues that the expectation gap between the PABs and accounting educators cannot be closed and that collaboration between the parties is difficult to achieve. Secondly, it found that the complex web of institutional logics at play in HEIs obstructs those intent on curriculum change. Further it emerged that accounting faculty were complicit in pushing exaggerated employability claims for their courses and were complacent to the consequences of discovery, Methodologically, this study was the first to explore accounting education relevance from the perspectives of all interested parties, the PABs, accounting faculty, and students, gaining a holistic view of the issue. The above poses significant threats to accounting education viability. Short-term, the cash generated by accounting degrees gives accounting faculty some security. Longer-term the PABs will create more innovative curriculum and without change, the relevance of accounting education will diminish further negatively impacting the employability of accounting graduates. The future viability of accountancy as a degree is, potentially, in question. In creating this curriculum framework, the study makes a practical contribution to the benefit of all interested stakeholders

Factors Influencing Customer Satisfaction towards E-shopping in Malaysia

Online shopping or e-shopping has changed the world of business and quite a few people have decided to work with these features. What their primary concerns precisely and the responses from the globalisation are the competency of incorporation while doing their businesses. E-shopping has also increased substantially in Malaysia in recent years. The rapid increase in the e-commerce industry in Malaysia has created the demand to emphasize on how to increase customer satisfaction while operating in the e-retailing environment. It is very important that customers are satisfied with the website, or else, they would not return. Therefore, a crucial fact to look into is that companies must ensure that their customers are satisfied with their purchases that are really essential from the ecommerce’s point of view. With is in mind, this study aimed at investigating customer satisfaction towards e-shopping in Malaysia. A total of 400 questionnaires were distributed among students randomly selected from various public and private universities located within Klang valley area. Total 369 questionnaires were returned, out of which 341 questionnaires were found usable for further analysis. Finally, SEM was employed to test the hypotheses. This study found that customer satisfaction towards e-shopping in Malaysia is to a great extent influenced by ease of use, trust, design of the website, online security and e-service quality. Finally, recommendations and future study direction is provided. Keywords: E-shopping, Customer satisfaction, Trust, Online security, E-service quality, Malaysia

CIMODE 2016: 3º Congresso Internacional de Moda e Design: proceedings

O CIMODE 2016 é o terceiro Congresso Internacional de Moda e Design, a decorrer de 9 a 12 de maio de 2016 na cidade de Buenos Aires, subordinado ao tema : EM--‐TRAMAS. A presente edição é organizada pela Faculdade de Arquitetura, Desenho e Urbanismo da Universidade de Buenos Aires, em conjunto com o Departamento de Engenharia Têxtil da Universidade do Minho e com a ABEPEM – Associação Brasileira de Estudos e Pesquisa em Moda.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio