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2019, Cilt 9, Sayı 2, Sayfa(lar) 335-341 |
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DOI: 10.5961/jhes.2019.335 |
The Effects of Globalization on Higher Education and Accounting Education in Turkey |
Nida TÜREGÜN1, Can Tansel KAYA2 |
1Özyeğin University, School of Applied Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey 2Yeditepe University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Economics, Istanbul, Turkey |
Keywords: Globalization, Higher education, Accounting education, SWOT analysis, Turkey |
Effects of globalization have become significantly apparent in every aspect. Along with globalization, the need for accounting education
is being triggered by the development of financial markets and the elimination of barriers to trade. This study explains how some aspects
of globalization affect higher education and accounting education in Turkey. Moreover, the aim of this study is to examine the effects
of globalization on higher and accounting education by using focus group technique in order to perform a SWOT analysis to create
strong sides, weak sides, opportunities, and threats. Ten accounting and finance instructors are brought together from one state and two
foundation universities in Istanbul to discuss on the subject, and as a result, eight strong, five weak, five opportunity and four threat items
emerged.
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