THE HISTORY OF THE ACCOUTING COURSE OF THE SCHOOL OF ECONOMIC SCIENCES OF THE UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL - UFRGS

• Autor(a) principal: Pinheiro, Augusto César Barros Almeida
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Bianchi, Márcia, Barbosa, Marco Aurélio Gomes, Rocha, João Marcos Leão da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: ConTexto
• Texto Completo: https://www.seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/ConTexto/article/view/19120
• topic: História; Curso de Ciências Contábeis; UFRGS; History; Accounting course; UFRGS

The origin of the Accounting course at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) is with the creation of the School of Commerce, attached to the Free School of Law, motivated by the force that had taken accounting education with the founding of the School Maua in 1901, consolidating this type of training in Rio Grande do Sul the study aims to analyze the travel history dating back to the creation of the Business School of Porto Alegre in 1909, its independence with the creation and consolidation of the course accounting and Actuarial Sciences in 1946 and its evolution to date, giving deserved recognition to the historic institution, giving the salient facts related to the evolution of teaching accounting at the School of Commerce degree in accounting. This research is characterized as qualitative, descriptive literature and case study. Are given personalities who have excelled in course development and addressed the importance of this at present, contextualizing it in a scenario of ever-expanding knowledge to meet an increasingly demanding market. Thus, we conclude that the formation of the counter at UFRGS is facing the labor market. The course provides an education focused primarily on four areas of accounting knowledge: corporate, costs, and government auditing. Its curriculum has undergone several changes in order to monitor market growth and the demands of society, adapting to technology development, adapting to societal changes and convergence to international accounting standards, and encourage scientific production.