Educating and Training Accountants in Syria in a Transition Context: Perceptions of Accounting Academics and Professional Accountants

Sonja Gallhofer, Jim Haslam and Rania Kamla

Accounting Education, 2009, vol. 18, issue 4-5, 345-368

Abstract: This study focuses on accounting education in the Syrian transition context and in the international context of globalization. It offers insights into accounting education and into the interrelationship in this respect between the accountancy profession and academia in this context. We elaborate an historical and contextual analysis of the Syrian context in relation to accounting education. We report on a series of interviews (conducted in 2002 and 2005) of professional accountants and accounting academics in Syria that elaborates the views of these key parties on a number of interrelated matters: the current limitations of tertiary accounting education in Syria; the role of the accountancy profession in providing education and training; and the developing interrelationship between the profession and academia. In concluding, we summarize some key insights and elaborate on the relevance of the study and the future research it suggests.

Keywords: Accounting education; Syria; transition perceptions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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