Developing Team Skills in Accounting Students: A Complete Curriculum

Abstract

Employers continue to demand increased levels of team and interpersonal skills in graduating accountants. Scholarly and professional works continue to reinforce this demand. Despite this, there remains a dearth of resources available to universities to integrate team skills education into accounting curriculum. This paper directly addresses this issue by providing a specific teamwork curriculum for implementation in accounting programs. In this paper, we detail the team skills required of accounting graduates, provide implementation recommendations, supply a complete set of curriculum resources, and provide assessment templates. This paper reduces the barrier for universities to implement team-skills content within their accounting programs.