A holistic look at restructuring accounting education

Abstract

Today’s competitive business environment has drastically increased the expectations of stakeholders from the accounting professionals. This has led the accounting educators to reshape their attributes in order to meet the mentioned expectations. Unless the accounting educator initially improves their own attributes, preparing the decision makers of tomorrow seems rather difficult. Therefore it has become the highest necessity to find out what these changing trends within the scope of the expectations of stakeholders so that education side can adjust accordingly. The aim of this research is to investigate what stakeholders expect from accounting education, share these crucial information with the accounting educators; so that expected attributes accounting students can be perfectly matched with the expectations of the stakeholders who will be in the position to employ the newly graduates of accounting.