Educação continuada: um estudo com profissionais contábeis na cidade de João Pessoa.

Abstract

Professional Continued Education is the constant improvement of critical knowledge. The accounting professional must be engaged in it to stand out in the job market considering the changes in society and new technologies, in addition to making the latter an important ally. In the view of the foregoing, this study aims to highlight the continued education of professionals in the context of companies which provide accounting services in João Pessoa/Paraíba, analyzing the education and learning process in the context of such companies and also describing how continued education for accounting professionals happens in this environment. Therefore, as a methodology, a qualitative analysis of the phenomenological content semi-structured interviews that were carried out with accounting professionals who work in companies providing accounting services in the studied region was carried out. Along the exposition of the collected data, the volunteers' speeches on the subject were presented, which ended up going against studies used as a basis and orientation for this research, for it was perceived that continued education within the work environment is still incipient. Professionals carry out their updates due to work demands. It was concluded that, when reaching the objectives, the professionals in the area have as a teaching-learning process information exchange with teammates and that their updates are given by demands of the organization in which they are working for.