Informational competence in the perspective of accounting sciences students

• Autor(a) principal: Moreira, Cristiano
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Beira, Joana Carlos, Maputere, Marta, Barbosa, Ricardo Rodrigues
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Informação & Informação
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/informacao/article/view/38273
• topic: Informational competence; Information literature; Accounting sciences; Knowledge management; Competencia informativa; Literatura informativa; Ciencias Contables; Conocimiento administrativo; Competência informacional; Literatura da informação; Ciências contábeis; Gestão do conhecimento

Introduction: Assessing the perspectives of users of information and their skills with regard to informational competencies is necessary to understand how new ways and ways of organizing information are reaching their users and whether they are causing any positive impact on execution professional and daily activities. Accounting Science is a course in which information management and organization is a necessary input for the efficient performance of professional activities. Thus, seeking to understand the expectations and understanding of students in this area can be an important instrument to understand the impacts of these new skills. Objective: the present study sought to answer the following question: What is the understanding of the students of the Accounting Sciences course about some practices linked to informational competences? Methodology: The research is classified as descriptive, of mixed survey (quali and quanti). For that, descriptive statistics was used. The sample was non-probabilistic, composed of 200 students from the accounting science course from public and private institutions. Results: The results showed that most interviewees had a high percentage of informational skills. Conclusions: Although a high level of knowledge has been presented in the practices involving these competencies, when it comes to practices and terms more usual in Information Science, these percentages decrease considerably, signaling the need for greater integration of these two sciences to increase performance of these future professionals.