Estudio analítico de las competencias blandas requeridas al contador público en la actualidad: una mirada desde el perfil de la Uniagustiniana

Abstract

This study arises from the globalized trends and changes that are orienting the professional in public accounting towards a comprehensive training, which is not only based on acquiring technical knowledge, but in developing skills in their actions for the solution of particular situations. The objective is to characterize the main soft skills required by the students of the Public Accounting program of the Universidad Agustiniana (UNIAGUSTINIANA) according to the current business visions and the points of view of the actors of the training process. The study was structured under a qualitative research approach and under a hermeneutic and phenomenological method considering the revision of the professional profile of Public Accounting of the Augustinian University and, it counted with the elaboration of an instrument of inquiry to the actors of the formative process and to businessmen, under 4 categories: necessity, importance, applicability and employability. The analysis and results obtained were elaborated from a contrast made between the visions and points of view of entrepreneurs and actors of the formative process, from which it is highlighted that there is a connection between the declared professional profile and the development of competencies to achieve an adequate personal and professional formation; same competencies that were taken from a study made on a panoramic type documentary review made by Romero et al. (2021), about soft competencies at a professional level.