Estudo da percepção dos alunos sobre disciplinas contábeis oferecidas nos cursos de Administração de empresas das cidades de São João da Boa Vista e Mogi Mirim

Abstract

The objective of this research was to evaluate the students of the Business Administration course in the cities of Mogi Mirim and São João da Boa Vista, in the region of Baixa Mogiana, State of São Paulo, about the perception that these students have about the importance of of accounting disciplines for your profession. The research was motivated by the importance of these contents in the administrative context, since accounting is one of the most used instruments to support the administration of companies, and by the fact that administrators need to have an adequate understanding of the accounting process and its effects. The researched sample is composed of students from three higher education institutions that offer the Business Administration course in the researched region. The institutions were selected based on the importance and recognition that the Business Administration Course has for this region. As a data collection instrument, a questionnaire was prepared and applied, composed of two parts: one that sought to characterize the profile of the sample, and another that contained assertions, in the Likert Scale format. The aspects that we wanted to evaluate in the students' perception were: usefulness and expectations, content, workload, teaching strategies, professors' performance and conditions for offering courses. The research is exploratory and field, and the data obtained were treated by Descriptive Statistics, complemented by Classification and Regression by Tree - Chaid Method. Inferential Statistics was also used, through the techniques of Correspondence Analysis, Principal Components Analysis and Concordance Analysis. By analyzing the results, it was noticed that students recognize the importance of Accounting for their profession, and believe that it is useful. However, the students highlighted the need to study Accounting in a more practical way in the classroom.