O profissional contábil diante das necessidades decisoriais dos empresários e gestores, considerando o ambiente tecnológico atual

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to show, even tough in a non- exhausting way, the professional profile of accountants, its skills and the technological impact he is facing in a day-to-day basis. Due to the high competitive corporate environment, managers have been requested quite different informations compared with some time ago enforcing the acccountant professional to keep up updated constantly and even to rethink and foresee what would be the challenges to overcome in order to provide more and more qualified information. We have also the objective of going through the roles and responsabilities of accountant professional, since from the ones pretty much belongs to the core competence of its area that requires tecnical habilitation, being registered in public organism till new roles and responsabilities that would perfectly fit to its career, but not restricted, as controller that requires accountant background, and other skills as administration, finance, information tecnology, so on so forth. Among the existing technological resources, big emphasis was given to the integrated management systems, that makes possible the reduction and even to extinguish of some common accountant tasks as: document classification and its typestry. These systems were able to link companies, standardize procedures, improve operational control even tough nowadays companies are spreaded out in many countries