IMPROVEMENT OF COMMUNICATION SKILL FOR MILLENNIALS ACCOUNTANT

IMPROVEMENT OF COMMUNICATION SKILL FOR MILLENNIALS ACCOUNTANT

  • Erna SETIANY Universitas Mercu Buana
  • Nurul HIDAYAH Universitas Mercu Buana
  • Anees Janee ALI University Sains Malaysia
Keywords: Millennial Accountant, Community Service, Communication Skill, Accountant Professional.

Abstract

The purpose of implementing this community service program is to improve the ability of prospective professional accountants to communicate well. Through this effort their communication skills and professionalism can be improved. Thus, this community service program can be seen as an effort to improving the ability of millennials accountant to hone their communication skills in a professional manner. Millennial career expectations can be seen as a system of norms, values, and beliefs (Suchman, 1995) which characterize members of this new generation of accountants. Millennials do not have as much loyalty as the previous generation. This cannot be ignored by accounting companies when they compete to recruit good candidates. Therefore, becomes important to discuss improving communication skills for accounting students so that they can overcome the obstacles of communication as accountant professionals.Outreach targets in the community service program that will be carried out within the Mercu Buana University for these accountant millennials are millennials accountants get knowledge about how to communicate professionally, and millennials accountants can develop themselves professionally in order to achieve career success as accountants. The implementation of the Community Service Program will be held around June 5-15, 2019 by involving the PPM Team and assisted by Students. Activities will be carried out Universitas Mercu Buana. The types of activities carried out were in the form of seminars and explained the material on how to improve the communication skills of millennial accountants.

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Published
2021-10-27
How to Cite
SETIANY, E., HIDAYAH, N., & ALI, A. J. (2021). IMPROVEMENT OF COMMUNICATION SKILL FOR MILLENNIALS ACCOUNTANT. ICCD, 3(1), 354-358. https://doi.org/10.33068/iccd.Vol3.Iss1.378
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