The profession of the future in the field of accounting: Accounting engineering

Abstract

One of the most important features of the 21st century is technological developments. Technological renewal every day has led to, the emergence of different occupational groups and/or the use of different programs. These developments also affected the accounting profession. Recording systems are also changing because of the inadequacy of providing information from the duties of professional accountants. Records now take place in electronic environment such as e-book, e-invoice. In addition, transactional diversity in business life has made etransformation mandatory in financial data. For this reason, many different software programs are needed more and more. However, those who prepare these software programs are software engineers. These individuals do not have sufficient knowledge in accounting. Those with sufficient knowledge of accounting are not enough to prepare software programs. For this reason, those who have sufficient knowledge in both areas, produce complete, uninterrupted information and can develop software compatible with international accounting standards will be accounting engineers. How a business engineering, mathematical engineering has provided significant contributions to business life, we can say that accounting engineering will provide important contributions in the same way. Because accounting profession has left the traditional approach very much behind and now it has become a technology oriented model. To be able to catch up with the pace of knowledge in the globalizing world and not be back from this race, we can say that universities need to create an independent department of accounting engineering. © The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology.