Strategic Researches On Career-oriented Field Accounting Training For Vocational Students

Economic development and societal changes have placed greater demands onprofessional accountants by asking not only people who know accounting but also acombination of all-rounder, good learner and specialist，which became a driving forceof the proposal of a career-oriented higher vocational education from relevantauthorities. Given this situation, accounting education for higher vocational studentsought to renovate its traditional curriculums and field training mode and closely bondwith the society and employers to improve the comprehensive ability andemployment-obtaining ability of students and train them to be specialists that meet theneeds of the society and employers by establishing efficient field training. In thisarticle, the writer elaborates on an educational method of a wider concept ofaccountant and field training strategies with the purpose of eventually broadeningstudents’ horizon and their career path.Firstly, in this article, the writer gives an overall introduction to bothinternational and domestic vocational accounting education,followed by someanalysis on impacts and influences put by the concept of career-oriented highervocational education in China before dissecting the reality of higher vocationalaccounting education. Later, based on the figures unveiled by some questionnairescollected from accounting majors from higher vocational schools in Qingdao, thewriter analyzes some major problems in current higher vocational accountingeducation. What is shown in the questionnaire infers that the existing field trainingmode and content of higher vocational accounting education, which are relativelyobsolete, fails to create qualified accountants to meet the increasingly stricter criterionof the society. Therefore, the writer offers a perception of ‘wider accountingeducation’,which expands the career scale for accounting majors, designs some newmolded field training strategies accordingly,and endeavors to give examples to thesestrategies.Because they are new, these strategies will inevitably encounter variousobstacles,which are decoded and removed later in this article through efforts of thewriter. Eventually, the writer will find out disadvantages of those strategies.The combination of the methods of investigation, comparison and contrast willbe embodied in this article. The possible contributions of this article are as following:1. Offering a perception of wider accounting education, which expands thecareer scale and paths for accounting majors;2. Initiating molded accounting field training strategies for higher vocationalaccounting students and expanding and renovating the traditional field training mode;3.Advocating for the concept of multifunctional trainers based on the practicaldemands on field training of higher vocational accounting education;...