مدى ملائمة محتوى الخطة الدراسية لبرنامج المحاسبة في الجامعات الفلسطينية من حيث كفاية مساقات تكنولوجيا المعمومات لمتطلبات بيئة العمل

Abstract EN

This study aimed to investigate to what extent the curriculum of the accounting program in the Palestinian Universities contains IT (Information Technology) courses that coincide with the business environment's needs.

It also aimed to highlight those difficulties facing the process of the development of this curriculum.

In addition to that, it aimed to find out the importance extent of the addition of IT courses in both theoretical and practical approaches.

To achieve these objectives, three questionnaires were developed and distributed to a sample of faculty members and graduate accounting students in accounting departments in the Palestinian Universities, and accounting employee in different Palestinian companies.

Also the curricula for the accounting program in the Palestinian Universities were collected for the analysis.

The analysis reveals that the IT courses in the curriculum of the accounting program in the Palestinian Universities do not coincide with the business environment's needs and these curricula need to be reformed by the inclusion of IT courses.

Some obstacles for developing these curricula are existing.

The results also indicate that there is a significant relationship between the IT courses content of the accounting program curriculum and some other independent variables (direct and indirect factors that are responsible for the weakness of accounting education's outcome).