AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH IN ACCOUNTING, ENGINEERING, AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES TO DEVELOP THE 21ST CENTURY SKILLS OF ACCOUNTANTS

Global crises such as Covid-19 encourage scientists, healthcare professionals, political analysts, economists, and business leaders to share their experiences and to collaborate. No discipline alone can address all the problems associated with the challenges of global crises and produce solutions for these problems.

This is also true for accounting science. We can say that accounting alone is not enough for the solution of multidimensional economic transactions and events of the twenty-first century.

The reason for this is that an interdisciplinary approach uses multiple ideas and research methods. It can improve accounting practices and make them more effective in the face of global problems. This is especially true of the cooperation between accounting and engineering, sociology, psychology, and information technologies. This cooperation can enable accountants to develop innovative solutions to global crises. To support this, accounting must focus on multidisciplinary approaches for the future.

An interdisciplinary approach requires the use and integration of methods and analytical frameworks from more than one academic discipline to examine a theme or topic. In the twenty-first century, accountants must adopt an interdisciplinary approach to the problems they have to solve. In other words, to use the digital systems correctly and effectively, accountants need to have knowledge and skills from different disciplines such as computer technology, programming language, statistics, and engineering.

Since the interdisciplinary approach uses multiple ideas and research methods, it can improve accounting practices and make them more effective in the face of global problems. It enables accountants to see the world as an integrated whole and learn how to solve a problem with knowledge gained from various disciplines.

The complex nature of the modern business environment and current research issues require scientists, accountants, and other professionals to work together. The interdisciplinary approach looks promising for opening new perspectives and encouraging more creative approaches to complex problems.

The essence of accounting is creative problem solving. It is essential to be able to predict the future more accurately. To do this, accountants will need knowledge other than taxation and technical information in the future.

The cooperation between accounting and engineering and information technologies can represent a reform movement to develop the skills and competencies to prepare accountants for life in the twenty-first century.

These types of skills overlap with future competencies that accountants will need in the future, such as complex and creative problem solving, critical thinking, effective communication, and mathematical reasoning.

This reform is an approach to answering questions, solving problems, and addressing contemporary economic issues by synthesizing knowledge from multiple disciplines.

An interdisciplinary approach helps with critical thinking and cognitive development of accountants. It enables them to improve themselves by establishing connections between ideas and concepts within different discipline boundaries. It can enrich the accounting profession through an emphasis on using multiple ideas and research methods. Let us suppose that you want to learn how digital systems work as a particular accountant. Therefore, you need to have some knowledge about computer technologyso you should become familiar with some aspects of computer science. You may need to use the science of statistics to analyze data in digital systems. For a complete understanding, you need to have skills from disciplines such as statistics, economics, foreign languages, and engineering