ALEXANDRE, F. A. M.; ALEXANDRE, Francisco Allison Moreira.
Resumen:
Excessive degradation of the environment and natural resources have drawn attention
around the world, and that the environment has attracted increasing attention and interest.
Thus, institutions of higher catalyst sources of new knowledge is increasingly devoted to
environmental issues in order to mitigate the impacts caused by man. Accordingly, this study
has the goal of writing which the interests of accounting students for the area of
environmental accounting. The focus was an exploratory research, descriptive, applied,
literature with a qualitative and quantitative. To achieve our purposes, we analyzed a sample
of 54 questionnaires from a universe 62 students in the discipline of Environmental
Accounting Course of Accounting Sciences, UFCG campus Sousa-PB in the period from
2009.1. The results indicate that there was agreement with about 8 1% of the questions
contained in the questionnaires, some disagreement in 14% and about 5% were neutral. The
above means that most students understand the importance of the disciplines of
Environmental Accounting, although not interested in working in this area. It is recommended
for studies that may include other variables and other statistical techniques related to the
topic, even if possible comparing the results shown here with other public institutions that
adopt curriculum components related to the environmental area.
