Dificuldades dos profissionais que trabalham com TI perante os conhecimentos contábeis exigidos na operacionalização dos sistemas de contabilidade

Abstract

The Information Tecnology (IT) made considerable advances in the last decades, so the accounting cience, and the accounting professional, need to be up-to-date and prepared to change their routines in order to attend what the job market requests. For this, it's important to have a IT professional help, either developing Accounting Information Systems, implanting it or updating it. In this context, this work's objective is to recognize the IT professionals' difficulties when needing accounting knowledge to develop Accounting System. For gathering data, it was sent a questionnaire to twelve Accounting Developing Softwares Systems businesses of Parana state, which returned thirty four answered questionnaires. The main problems appointed by the IT professionals were to create reports and accounting books, to create files and statements and, finally, performing accounting calculation and determinate taxes. It was noticed that, in some activities, the professionals have few or none difficulty, as to make and import releases, financial and accounting integration and, for last, controlling events developed at the payroll. In this sense it can be concluded that activities that require more specific knowledge of accounting, as labor and tax laws, standards, international standards, calculations and calculations of taxes, are the most present difficulties for the professional who works with IT.