Information Technology (IT) skills are important for practising accountants and accounting educators. This paper reports on a study done to evaluate the levels of IT skills of practising and accounting educators in Botswana, as well as their views on the important IT skills for practising...

This article reports the views of practicing accountants and accounting educators on essential skills for accounting students in Botswana. The data collected using questionnaires from all lecturers in three accountancy training institutions and a sample of accounting practitioners was used to...

Information Technology (IT) has been widely acknowledged as an important component in the fight to reduce global poverty; it has also been identified as having the potential to empower women around the world economically, socially and politically. Education, and IT education (ITE) in particular,...

Knowledge Management can be defined as the efficient utilisation of the existing intangible, knowledge-related resources available in every sector of the economy to enhance the productivity of all factors of production. The developing nations, given their abundance of unutilised skilled labour...

We propose an explanation for the growth of executive pay since the 1980s. New information and communication technologies (ICTs) appear to favor winner-take-all markets and to accentuate firm-level volatility of profits. We show, using an efficiency wage model, that these changes lead to higher...