O currículo do curso de Ciências Contábeis e o mercado de trabalho para o profissional contador

Abstract

This master thesis has the purpose of evidencing whether the curricula of the undergraduate Accountancy courses meet the requirement of the Accountancy professionals' labor market. Describes the capabilities, skills, profile, modern working environment and challenges of the Accountancy professional, by means of bibliographical research. Through documentary research, curricula were obtained from the colleges and universities of the city of São Paulo, as well as the hour load of the courses offered to their students. In order to know the needs of the institutions that were researched, a questionnaire was developed, forwarded to and answered by such entities, containing questions that deal with the attitudes, skills and knowledge required from the Accountancy professional to perform his or her functions. Based on the results obtained by the research, convergences and divergences were produced aiming at helping the coordinators of the undergraduate Accountancy courses to create a curriculum that comprises the capabilities, skills and attitude that meet the needs of the labor market.