Knowledge, Skills and Pedagogy Components for Accounting Education Development in Egypt ( A Survey Research)

Purpose:Nowadays technological advances, economic globalization and developments in financial markets have changed the business environment. The key question is what this new business era expect accountants to know and be able to? The accountant’s responsibilities are increasing to include reporting on risks, performance measures, and sustainability. Thus, if accountant will have a value added role he must be equipped with the needed knowledge and skill to meet these challenges. Accounting education should follow the changes in the business and respond to these needs. Moreover, to meet the required knowledge and skills, changes should also be made in the pedagogy componentsthrough innovative teaching methods. Therefore, this research aims at examining knowledge, skills and pedagogy components for accounting education development in Egypt.
 Design/ methodology applying a questionnaire survey, to gather the perceptions from a sample of (119 out of 200) accounting practitioners (big accounting firms) and (126 out of 200) final year accounting students about the required knowledge, skills, and pedagogy for accounting education improvement.  The questionnaire consisted of closed-ended questions that aimed to measure the importance of a list of 43 items of knowledge, skill, and pedagogy. Moreover, factor analysis is used to reduce the data and capture the needed knowledge, skill and pedagogy items.
 Findings: There are significant differences between accounting practitioners and students regarding 21 items of knowledge, skills and pedagogy.