New coordinates of accounting academic education. A Romanian insight

Victoria Stanciu · Irina Bogdana Pugna · Mirela Gheorghe

16 citations0/0 files storedAccounting and Management Information Systems

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Accounting Education and Careers Digital literacy in education Information Systems Education and Curriculum Development

Abstract

Research question: Are accounting graduates prepared to face IT developments in their profession?Motivation: The accounting profession is facing a rapid transformation involving digital technology that implies significant changes."Modern accountants are expected to have a high level of IT knowledge and skills and towards that direction the curriculum in accounting education have to adopt a wide range of modules in order to provide accounting students with the required competencies" (El-Damarleh, 2017: 202).Today's students are digital natives and they "think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors" (Prensky, 2001: 1).Academic education needs to adapt to the language of digital natives and provide them with new skills and the knowledge required by the profession.Idea: We aim to investigate the awareness of bachelor students in accounting regarding the impact of IT on accounting processes and their preparedness in this regard.Tools: Data was collected using a multiple-choice questionnaire distributed to third-year and master's accounting students at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies.Data was analyzed using Excel.Findings: The students are aware of the importance of the new technologies and applications relevant to the profession, but their knowledge needs to be improved.The current curriculum does not include important aspects of the new digital technology that are already embedded or being assimilated within the accounting profession.Contribution: The paper provides recommendations regarding accounting academic education, providing arguments for developing IT-related competencies for accounting students aiming to align their knowledge and skills to current and future professional requirements.The conclusions emphasize the need

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 16 citations exist upstream.

References

2018Educating digital natives for the future: accounting educators’ evaluation of the accounting curriculum 2009Competing on analytics: The new science of winning 2015Data Driven: What Students Need to Succeed in a Rapidly Changing Business World

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.