The effect of accounting training on oral communication skills: A comparative application on accounting students

With the effect of globalization, country borders have lost their importance in terms of businesses, and this has brought radical changes in the structure of businesses. Of course, these developments and changes have affected the science of accounting, the accounting profession, and therefore accounting education. In this process, which is called the information age, information has become the most important source of power. It is only possible with accounting education that professional accountants who perform accounting activities, are at a key point in terms of business administrations and constitute the most important element of the system, to be trained in a qualified and equipped way, to meet the expectations of the profession, to gain competencies such as verbal, written and interpersonal skills. The high verbal communication skills of individuals are under the influence of two factors: genetics and environment. What is meant to be explained with the environmental factor that shapes the verbal communication skills sought in accountants and professional candidates is the accounting education given in educational institutions. This study aims to investigate the effect of accounting education on students' verbal communication skills. The sample of this study is the students who are at the entry stage to the accounting education program in TRA2 Ağrı Sub-Region in the 2020-2021 academic year and who are about to graduate from the program, and students who study in the department of business administration where accounting education is given more intensively and in other departments where accounting education is relatively less. forms. The "Verbal Communication Anxiety" questionnaire prepared by McCroskey to measure communication anxiety was applied to a total of 206 students and the obtained data were analyzed using a statistical package program. According to the results of the parametric hypothesis tests (Independent-Samples T Test and ANOVA) applied to measure whether there is a significant difference between the groups in the study, it was seen that there was no significant and significant difference between the groups. According to the results obtained from the study, it was determined that accounting education did not have any contribution to reduce the verbal communication anxiety of the students and improve their communication skills, and solutions were tried to be developed.