Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Relationship between Academic Accounting Education and Professional Training / Elaine Evans, Roger Juchau, and Richard M S Wilson -- Alignment in Accounting Education and Training / Richard M S Wilson -- Educating and training accountants in Syria in a transition context: Perceptions of accounting academics and professional accountants / Sonja Gallhofer, Jim Haslam, and Rania Kamla -- Do accounting graduates' skills meet the expectations of employers? A matter of convergence or divergence / Beverley Jackling and Paul De Lange -- Accounting undergraduates' perceptions of cooperative learning as a model for enhancing their interpersonal and communication skills / Joan Ballantine and Patricia McCourt Larres -- Professional skills and capabilities of accounting graduates: The New Zealand Expectation Gap? / Paul Wells, Philippa Gerbic, Ineke Kranenburg, and Jenny Bygrave -- The tax knowledge of South African trainee accountants: A survey of the perceptions of training officers in public practice / Stephen Coetzee and Ruanda Oberholzer -- Competence-based approaches to the assessment of professional accountancy training work experience requirements: The ICAS experience / Elizabeth Gammie and Yvonne Joyce.

Over many decades the global development of professional accounting education programmes has been undertaken by higher education institutions, professional accounting bodies, and employers. These institutions have sometimes co-operated and sometimes been in conflict over the education and/or training of future accounting professionals. These ongoing problems of linkage and closure between academic accounting education and professional training have new currency because of pressures from students and employers to move accounting preparation onto a more efficient, economic and practical basis.