Big Four: Um estudo empírico com os discentes das faculdades de Administração e Ciências Contábeis da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

Abstract

The subject of professional career is a recurring subject in the lives of future graduates of a university. The purpose of this paper is to verify if the students of the courses of Administration and Accounting Sciences of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora know the professional opportunities that a Big Four, nomenclature used to refer to the four largest audit companies in the world, offers and if the teachers information. The methodology applied in this work was descriptive, with a quantitative approach. Therefore, two questionnaires were applied, one for students and one for teachers through the Google Forms tool and personal contact, reaching 131 and 9 respondents respectively. The results of the data analysis showed that most students do not know the term Big Four and their career prospects and that 55.6% of teachers do not deal in classrooms, the Big Four subject.