Challenges Facing Accounting Education in the Kurdistan Region Universities A survey study

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Published: Jun 20, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14500/kujhss.v2n1y2019.pp109-117
Keywords:
Accounting Education, Challenges, Descriptive Method, Preparatory Curriculum, Universities of Kurdistan Region التحديات, تعليم المحاسبة, جامعات إقليم كوردستان, طريقة وصفية, المنهج التحضيري

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Akram A. Mohammed
Department of Accounting, Dukan Technical Institute, Sulaimani Polytechnic University, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8192-072X
Karzan A. Khzer
Department of Accounting , College of Administration and Economics, University of Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0078-6563
Hariem A. Abdullah
Department of Accounting , College of Administration and Economics, University of Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0333-6338

Abstract

This study aims at evaluating the current situation of accounting education in the Kurdistan Region in order to serve the economic development objectives in the region. In doing so, we identify the challenges and obstacle to the progress of accounting education in the region and its development. Those challenges have been classified into several main sections: challenges to educations programs, administrative and economic challenges, the challenges facing the academic staff, lack of sources and references in the field, language challenge and weak connection between market requirements and accounting education programs. Data were collected through a questionnaire. Using an analytical descriptive method, the results confirm that the combined challenges have a profound impact on accounting education in the Kurdistan region universities. Therefore, we recommend providing a suitable condition for academicians and to find the necessary changes in the curriculum, as well as finding adequate funding for the availability of contemporary sources, to find training programs during the study, more importantly to find a link between the accounting department and the preparatory curriculum, to find adequate services for students during the study and finally try to find a relationship between universities and professional bodies in the field of accounting.

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Mohammed, A. A., Khzer, K. A. and Abdullah, H. A. (2019) “Challenges Facing Accounting Education in the Kurdistan Region Universities: A survey study”, Koya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2(1), pp. 109-117. doi: 10.14500/kujhss.v2n1y2019.pp109-117.
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Author Biographies

Akram A. Mohammed, Department of Accounting, Dukan Technical Institute, Sulaimani Polytechnic University, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Akram Ahmed Muhammed obtained his Bachelor degree of Accounting from University of Isfahan, Iran. And obtained his MSc degree of Accounting and Auditing from University of Imam Khomeini International University (IKIU), Iran. He is now an academician at Sulaimaniya Polytechnic University (SPU), Dukan Technical Institute (DTI). He has published two books about principle accounting and Governmental accounting in Kurdish.

Karzan A. Khzer, Department of Accounting , College of Administration and Economics, University of Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Karzan, bachelor's degree in accounting from Sulaymaniyah university in 2006, master degree in accounting from Sulaymaniyah  university in 2012, assistant lecturer in Sulaymaniyah university 

Hariem A. Abdullah, Department of Accounting , College of Administration and Economics, University of Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Hariem Abdullah obtained his Bachelor degree in Accounting from University of Sulaimani July 2008, the Kurdistan Region, Iraq. He obtained his MSc degree in Accounting and Finance from University of Leicester January 2014, England, UK. Currently, he is an academician (lecturer) at University of Sulaimani, School of Administration and Economics and a Ph.D. candidate at Near East University, Nicosia, Cyprus

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