Evidências da globalização na educação contábil: estudo das grades curriculares dos cursos de graduação em universidades brasileiras e portuguesas

Abstract

Accounting education has been a constant concern for International Accounting organisms such as IFAC and IASB, as well as the UN, through sections such as ISAR/UNCTAD. Accounting education institutions from different countries, in turn, are stimulated to adapt to the changes provoked by globalization. Thus, the authors believe that, the greater the similarity between the curriculum adopted by a certain country and the international curriculum, the greater will be the evidence of harmonization in that country's accounting education. For the sake of comparison, the authors consider that the ISAR/UNCTAD/UN's proposal of a Model Curriculum (MC) contains the ideal conceptual structure or the blocks of knowledge to be supplied by the universities in their Accounting curricula. The study compares the results of an analysis of 25 Brazilian and 25 Portuguese colleges in relation to the MC. When analyzing their position in relation to the MC, it is noticed that the Administrative and Organizational Knowledge Block - in Brazil as well as in Portugal-presented greater proximity. The general knowledge block was most distant. Another characteristic observed in the results is the low amount of subjects on Information Technology in most of the curricula.