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Abstract
An accounting education graduate is required to master hard skills and soft skills. In terms of mastering soft skills in the accounting profession, it means to work together as a team. This soft skill provision is obtained through effective learning methods by forming a team that is given the assignment to solve a problem and accounts for it through presentations. The purpose of this study is to provide guidelines for lecturers to build effective teams for students. This study uses a descriptive experimental approach conducted by researchers in 5th semester students with Business Mixing Accounting courses. Team formation refers to McGrath’s Model framework. This model includes the input, process, and output stages. The input phase emphasizes the quality of the teams from various inputs. The larger the team, the more personality types, and time variations will be accommodated and the more conflicts that will be faced. The stage of the process includes how members deal with conflict and make conflict a success. The output stage includes criteria for measuring group performance results and other measures such as member performance satisfaction, group cohesiveness at the end of the task, and changes in member behavior to be better
Highlights
The mastery of soft skills and hard skills is required for an accounting graduate
The mastery of hard skills is related to the mastery of knowledge in their fields, while soft skills are the ability to work in teams, the ability to analyze and to think logically, and the ability to work in the interdependence situation
Based on the application results of forming an effective team on 3 classes of accounting students in Business MixingAccounting course, the following conclusions can be drawn: 1) Respondents thought that they felt awkward when cooperated in the new team for the first time by less than 11%, while around 89% felt happy and experienced positive things during cooperated in the new team
Summary
The mastery of soft skills and hard skills is required for an accounting graduate. The mastery of hard skills is related to the mastery of knowledge in their fields, while soft skills are the ability to work in teams, the ability to analyze and to think logically, and the ability to work in the interdependence situation. Based on the survey conducted by the business community in Indonesia, graduate users need higher education graduates who have adequate soft skills than graduates who only have hard skills in the form of high intellectual intelligence. The educators’ accountant is demanded by various professional bodies to develop the accounting students’ soft skills from an early age, the ability of students to work in a team. Practitioners or professionals and entrepreneurs, management accountants, public accountants, internal auditors, and the Indonesian Accountant Association, all emphasize the importance of team-building skills. The results of a survey in America conducted by the Management Accountant Association together with the Financial Accountant Association show that companies need prospective employees (accountants) who have team-building skills compared to those who do not have these skills (Segel and Sorensen, 1994 in Se Tin 2007)
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