As employers increasingly hunt for newly minted graduates who can quickly slot into real-world roles, academics are giving their accounting students a head start by scouting out cross-departmental collaborations that build the business and digital skills students need to hit the ground running.
Many academics are tapping into their own networks to find ways to collaborate informally with other departments and set up hands-on, experiential opportunities for accounting students to apply their knowledge to realistic scenarios. Opportunities include projects with