As necessidades do mercado de trabalho e o perfil do contador egresso da UFSM

Abstract

The great changes in the market due to globalization and technological advances, cause constant changes in requirements for skills in the labor force. Because of these transformations educational institutions need to upgrade their methodologies and didactic strategies to keeping in mind the demands of the market for non become obsolete forward the preparation of new professionals. Therefore, this study aims to identify, based on the Political Pedagogical Program (PPP) of the Accounting course at UFSM, the graduate student in the institution have the skills that are expected by hand labor recruiters in business management of human resources, according to the replies to the questionnaire, demonstrating the qualities and possible improvement points. The questionnaire was applied in four among five companies in the sector in Santa Maria, the data were analyzed and presented in graphs of column containing the values evaluated by each respondent, along with summaries of the texts open questions applied as an interview. In general, much of the need raised by the respondents is answered by the PPP, except for the practical part and some specific knowledge that is not the responsibility of higher education institutions teach them such as, for example, knowledge in specific software like Excel. On the other hand there is evidence that there is great technical development inside the program, as well as good development in information technology and accounting related areas such as financial mathematics, corporate finance, among others.