Level has to meet the international accounting education standards of accounting education in Turkey: A Research on academics and professional accountants

The purpose of this study is to examine the accounting education in terms of academicians and professional accountants within the framework of international accounting education standards. For this purpose, first of all, the frequencies of demographic characteristics such as gender, age, educational background, working period and titles of academicians and professional accountants were calculated. In addition, the mean and standard deviations of the responses of academicians and accountants to the sub-dimensions of knowledge, skills and attitudes in accounting education were calculated. Afterwards, 13 hypotheses were constituted and to find answers to these hypotheses, a questionnaire was applied 123 academicans and 50 professional accountants. Independent sample t-test was used to test the hypotheses. According to the results obtained from the analysis; academicians and professional accountants have different opinions about knowledge and skills in accounting education, business activities and business management, information technologies, intellectual, technical and functional skills, personal skills and interpersonal communication skills. On the other hand, it can be expressed that they have similar ideas about attitude in accounting education, accounting / finance and other sciences, general principles and detailed principles.