The Pursuit of Quality and Accreditation in Education: A Study on Accounting Education Cover Image

Eğitimde Kalite Arayışları ve Akreditasyon: Muhasebe Eğitimi Üzerine Bir Çalışma
The Pursuit of Quality and Accreditation in Education: A Study on Accounting Education

Author(s): Şerife Yalın, Rabia Aktaş
Subject(s): Education, Higher Education , Accounting - Business Administration
Published by: Celal Bayar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü
Keywords: Accounting Education; Accreditation; Digitalization; Accounting Undergraduate Curriculum;

Summary/Abstract: This research examines the curricula of “accounting”-related undergraduate programs accredited by AACSB, ACBSP, IACBE and EFMD and “accounting and financial management” and “business” undergraduate programs that are not accredited in Turkey in terms of courses with digital content and the current level of accounting education in the programs in terms of digitalization, it was made to show the status of the program and to get an idea about the effect of accreditation on the program curricula. The research is a qualitative research model and data were collected by examining the curricula of the programs with the document analysis technique. As a result, the general rate of digital content courses is higher in non-accredited programs but in accredited programs, with the effect of digital technologies which are thought to increase in importance in the digitalized world it is aimed to provide the knowledge and skills required by the changing job descriptions of the accounting profession; It has been determined that digital content courses such as "Business Data Analytics", "Accounting Data Analytics", "Accounting Analytics" with learning outcomes that can directly meet the analytical needs of accounting units are more than non-accredited programs. The research is important in terms of showing the effect of accreditation in accounting education in undergraduate program curricula in digital transformation.

  • Issue Year: 21/2023
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 157-182
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Turkish