Ensino do empreendedorismo com alunos de Ciências Contábeis: um estudo na Universidade Federal da Paraíba.

Abstract

The characteristics of the entrepreneurial profile in the current scenario of labor market demands, brings a competitive differential in all areas of activity. In this scenario, Higher Education Institutions play a relevant role in shaping the future professional. The general objective is to identify the entrepreneurial profile of students of the Accounting Science course ate the Federal University of Paraíba. In this research, we used the descriptive method of quantitative character with qualitative analysis. For this, a closed question questionnaire was used as a data collection instrument. The sample of the referred research comprised eighty-one students from the last two periods ( 7th and 8th), morning and ( 9th and 10th), night of the Accounting Science course of the Federal University of Paraíba. Date were organized in a table-shaped spreadsheet for better verfication of results, making the analysis by simple statistics calculating the relative and absolute frequency. The results showed little knowledge about entrepreneurship, most did not study in formal education on the subject explicitly. It was observed that the intention to be an entrepreneur in the form of owning/ managing a business did not produce satisfactory results.