International Journal of Accounting Research

Department of Accountancy, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Biography

I am currently employed as an Associate Professor and previously Head of the Accounting Division within the School of Accountancy (SOA) at the University of the Witwatersrand for 7 years up until July 2020. I joined the university on the 1st of May 2007 as an academic. As a student emerging from an improvised socio-economic background, I was awarded an NSFAS loan and pursued my fully time undergraduate degrees and later self funded my postgraduate masters degrees at the University of the Witwatersrand while working and studying full time. 

Publications

• Research Article   
  Expectation Issues Regarding the “Emergent Roles” of the Professional Accountant with in South African SMEs
  Author(s): Yaeesh Yasseen* and Freddie Crous
  
  The purpose of this research is to explore how professional accountants and SMEs owners experience the ‘emergent roles’ of the professional accountant within South African SMEs. A qualitative research approach within an interpretivist paradigm was therefore employed. To address the research question, the interpretivist design was executed using a thematic analysis of data collected through semi-structured interviews with 20 professional accountants and 20 SMEs owners. The study revealed mismatched expectations concerning the value and role expectations of the professional accountant rendering ‘emergent roles’ within South African SMEs. Expectation gap issues were further uncovered through divergent role expectations. Regulators need to understand that the role of the professional accountant within the SMEs environment is still predominately driven from the need.. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2472-114X.21.9.212

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