Contribuição do hábito de leitura dos discentes do curso de ciências contábeis para o desenvolvimento de competências profissionais

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to identify the contribution of reading habits of students in accounting sciences for their vocational training as an accountant. The theoretical basis of the accountant competencies and the reading habits are based on Psychology and in the Human Resources area. The proposal of this study is that reading habits contribute positively to the development of accounting skills. In regard of the methodology, it is exploratory and qualitative kind of research. Questionnaires were applied as way of gathering information, in an accessible , with 180 university students, containing the scale of reading functions with the learning, utility, morality and stimulus and text prepared according to the Cloze technique. The results showed greater use of learning and utility functions. The students presented difficulties in reading comprehension. We conclude that there is a conducive environment for the development of accountant skills of the accountant through reading, but the morality and stimulus functions need to be encouraged and the difficulties of understanding are going to be overcome.