A look at the occupational demand of the Accounting and Audit career of the distance Education Unit of the Universidad Nacional de Loja

Abstract

The occupational demand, sustains the pertinence of the career, identifying the professional competences that the graduates have acquired, contributing in an effective way to solve the economic - financial problems mentioned by the 384 Ecuadorian businessmen surveyed. The research uses inductive, deductive and analytical methods; describing and explaining the socio-educational phenomena to be solved; the results consider the needs required by the employers of Ecuador, and the estimated calculation of the unmet demand that will be covered, finding a need for coverage of 200 places per academic cycle, which the university will cover through its modality of distance education, articulating the design of the career with the objectives of the National Plan All Life and the Development Regime of Ecuador, safeguarding the coherence with the guidelines on higher education dictated by the Council of Higher Education (CES).