O ensino de perícia em cursos de ciências contábeis de instituições de ensino superior da região norte do Brasil

Abstract

The general objective of this study was to describe the characteristics of Forensic Accounting discipline taught in a sample of 45 (forty five) HEI Accounting Courses in the North Region in Brazil. It is an applied research in nature, mainly qualitative approached research, descriptive in its objective and documental concerning the technical procedure. Some characteristics were examined, as follows: discipline denominations, programs contents, teaching methodologies (didactic strategies), learning evaluation methodologies, academic load and discipline’s offering semester. It was known that the Forensic Accounting discipline is taught in all the HEI’s courses in the sample, being predominant contents covering forensic accounting and arbitration; there is a prevalence in the use of expositive classes, group and/or individual works and seminars as didactic strategies, occurring the same with descriptive and/or objective evaluations, attendance and group and/or individual work to the students’ learning evaluation; the academic load dedicated to the discipline’s teaching varies from 51 to 80 hours of class and it is generally taught in the seventh or eighth semesters, i.e., between the course’s second-to-last and the last semester.