On 29 November 2024, the Spanish Association of University Lecturers of Accounting (Asociación Española de Profesores Universitarios de Contabilidad – ASEPUC) organized, in collaboration with the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, the first workshop on ‘University and Accounting Profession’. The workshop provided a space to debate the most critical accounting challenges from an academic and professional approach.
The coordinator of the Account4GreenEco project, Nicolás García Torea from the University of Burgos, participated in this conference as an invited speaker at the first round table, together with María Dolores Urrea, from the Spanish Accounting Regulator (Instituto de Contabilidad y Auditoría de Cuentas – ICAC) and Auditing Institute (ICAC), and Ramón Pueyo Viñuales, head of sustainability and corporate governance services at KPMG. This round table reflected on the need to incorporate the study of sustainability reporting and verification in university curricula. This issue is one of the challenges that the Account4GreenEco project is trying to address through the development of its online training platform and its activities with students and professors. The project partner, University of Burgos, has extensive experience on this matter, with the implementation of the first Spanish Official Master on Sustainability Reporting and Assurance.
In addition to discussing the integration of sustainability information in curricula, the conference also addressed other issues relevant to accounting education, research, and practice, such as artificial intelligence, the employability of graduates, and the professionalization of the work of accountants.
The conference, which was attended by more than 80 people from 19 Spanish universities, was also attended by the president of the ICAC, Santiago Durán Domínguez, and professionals from large auditing firms such as KPMG and Deloitte, and members of the Register of Accounting Economists and the Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Roundtable on how to integrate sustainability information into the university curricula
