1. Introduction
Accounting education has been under attack for many years. Resulting fromrapid technological advances and growing market globalization, the role of today!saccountants has switched from the scorekeeper of business operations or financialinformation generator to the provider and interpreter of diversified information tovarious internal and external users of financial information. Such developments require expanding theknowledge and skills of accounting professionals to meet the changing demandsstemming from the new business environment. Several studies have examined the issueof what should be the knowledge and skill components of today!s accountingeducation programs that can satisfy the demands for training future accountants.Consensus has emerged and efforts have been made to implement accounting education reform in the US and in other countries in recent years.This paper examines the development of accounting education in China, focusingmainly on identifying the needed knowledge and skills for accounting professionalsin China!s changing business environment. Through a questionnaire survey, we gathered perceptions from Chinese accounting practitioners, educators, and studentsabout the required knowledge, skills, and pedagogy underlying accounting programs. Our results reveal that the majority of respondents agree on a set of fundamental and expanded knowledge and skills for the training of professional accountants, although there is some variance in the perceptions of the three groups of respondents. The respondents also agreed that the present state of accountingeducation in China fell significantly behind the demands for the needed knowledgeand skills of professional accountants, indicating that accounting education reformin China is imperative. This paper also compares and analyzes the needed knowledge and skills as perceived by respondents in the US and China. We found that there is commonality in the perceived knowledge and skills and their importance ranking as recognized by the respondents in the two countries, but some distinct differences in the respondents! perceptions exist. It is argued that the differences stem from the varied levels of economic and technological development, as well as from different social and cultural influences in the two countries. The paper consists of five sections. The study background is presented and relevant literature is reviewed in the next section, followed by the elaboration of research questions and methodology. Survey results and analysis are then sequentially presented. A brief conclusions section completes this paper.
1. บทนำ Accounting education has been under attack for many years. Resulting fromrapid technological advances and growing market globalization, the role of today!saccountants has switched from the scorekeeper of business operations or financialinformation generator to the provider and interpreter of diversified information tovarious internal and external users of financial information. Such developments require expanding theknowledge and skills of accounting professionals to meet the changing demandsstemming from the new business environment. Several studies have examined the issueof what should be the knowledge and skill components of today!s accountingeducation programs that can satisfy the demands for training future accountants.Consensus has emerged and efforts have been made to implement accounting education reform in the US and in other countries in recent years.This paper examines the development of accounting education in China, focusingmainly on identifying the needed knowledge and skills for accounting professionalsin China!s changing business environment. Through a questionnaire survey, we gathered perceptions from Chinese accounting practitioners, educators, and studentsabout the required knowledge, skills, and pedagogy underlying accounting programs. Our results reveal that the majority of respondents agree on a set of fundamental and expanded knowledge and skills for the training of professional accountants, although there is some variance in the perceptions of the three groups of respondents. The respondents also agreed that the present state of accountingeducation in China fell significantly behind the demands for the needed knowledgeand skills of professional accountants, indicating that accounting education reformin China is imperative. This paper also compares and analyzes the needed knowledge and skills as perceived by respondents in the US and China. We found that there is commonality in the perceived knowledge and skills and their importance ranking as recognized by the respondents in the two countries, but some distinct differences in the respondents! perceptions exist. It is argued that the differences stem from the varied levels of economic and technological development, as well as from different social and cultural influences in the two countries. The paper consists of five sections. The study background is presented and relevant literature is reviewed in the next section, followed by the elaboration of research questions and methodology. Survey results and analysis are then sequentially presented. A brief conclusions section completes this paper.
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