Refining Tax Accounting Education to Improve Accounting Students Skills and Competences

Abstract

ABSTRACT This study aims to explore the refining way in tax accounting education to improve the stu dents skills and competences. It is applied research, focusing on some applied recommenda tions; Data was collected through interviews with students and lecturers, observations, and document analysis with 13 participants. Participants are also invited to do some tax cases. Findings show that tax accounting education plays a significant role in students basic taxation knowledge, skills, and competences. This is very fruitful to prepare them when they want to have a career in the taxation field. However, they were not very skilled in doing complex tax cases in the real condition. This study is beneficial for accounting educators to refine the cur riculum and tax accountants to identify further taxation skills and competences needed for young accountants. This study tries to evaluate the broad skills and competences of students. Further studies can be expanded to more detailed skills and competences so that users can improve the tax accounting syllabus. Keywords: tax accounting, learning system, skills, competences.