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stakeholders evaluate in a positive way. The aim was to evaluate the graduates of general<br />

practical skills, abilities and personal characteristics. Employers key skills time computer<br />

skills (92.68 percent), fill in the relevant documents, to keep accounts (75.61 percent), to<br />

work in a new environment (73.17 percent). Nearly half of employers (48.78 per cent)<br />

believe that knowledge of foreign language is obligatory. Social stakeholders consider these<br />

graduates skills: communication (85.37 percent), IT computer literacy (82.93 percent), work<br />

in a team (73.17 percent), a realistic assessment of the situation, their potential and selfaddress<br />

labor questions (56.10 percent). The lowest skills of graduates were organizational /<br />

administrative abilities (53.66 per cent). Employers consider highly the most important<br />

personal personal qualities of graduates: honesty (100 percent), responsibility (95.12<br />

percent), creativity (87.80 percent), efficiency (73.17 percent), autonomy and initiative<br />

(70.73 percent). In summary, the stakeholders highly evaluate general practical skills,<br />

abilities and personal qualities of graduates.<br />

According to the social stakeholders the students are qualified with the requirements of<br />

employers (65.85 percent), satisfied partially (21.95 percent), a tenth of the respondents<br />

(12.20 percent) did not respond to this question.<br />

With the help of statement "Rating VIKO Finance study program students' ability” was to<br />

clarify the perspective of how the employers evaluate the graduates of faculty of<br />

economics. To sum up, most of assessments were positive - 67.86 percent, very good -<br />

28.57 percent, good - 3.57 percent. In summary, the stakeholders evaluate students of<br />

finance positively.<br />

In assessing the factors what factors prevent taking VIKO Finance students for practice, most<br />

employers stated following reasons: lack of staff leading students during their professional<br />

practice (34.15 percent), lack of space (26.83 percent), complex student placement and<br />

evaluation (24.39 percent) and other – 14.63 percent. Some of employers claimed that they<br />

are ready to accept them for practice or there are no conditions for a separate office room<br />

itself.<br />

The aim of this paper was to identify areas where employers would like to support<br />

cooperation with the Faculty of Administration and lectures. The majority of stakeholders<br />

indicated that they would like to participate in discussing the content of practice, others to<br />

identify the work evaluation criteria of practice itself. The results suggest that the financial<br />

program graduates meets stakeholders ' expectations.<br />

Conclusions<br />

1. Stakeholders welcome positively the graduates of finance program in modern market<br />

economy. The majority (87.8 percent) of stakeholders involved in the study said that the<br />

Vilniaus kolegija/University of Applied Sciences of Finance program graduates are<br />

satisfied with their practice.<br />

2. Stakeholders said that graduates have acquired accountant qualification to handle<br />

financial records, perform financial analysis, management of cash flows, the organization<br />

of the company's financial activities. Even 95.12 percent of stakeholders said that<br />

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