Vietnam in Need of Qualified Financial, Accounting Human Resources

Raising the quality of the Vietnamese financial and accounting human resources in Vietnam and meeting the national economy’s development demand is a task of economic groups and enterprises. To find an answer to the above situation, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) held a forum on this issue, attracting the participation of international experts and representatives from businesses and universities.

 

According to many experts, currently, businesses are expanding their operations scale, causing a fierce competition. This requires higher quality of accounting and financial human resources. However, accounting human resources still fail to satisfy the real demand despite universalisation of tertiary education due to their lack of knowledge and skills in the areas of merged accounting, international practices and standards. As a result, many enterprises can’t to recruit staffs.

 

Le Thi Thu Ha from the Baking Academy said, in reality, many enterprises do not interested in receiving probationary student. During tens of months of probation, many students are only allowed to observe others people to work or even sit in a separate room to read documents. “If businesses receive probationary students early, it will be a chance for them to learn experience”, Ha said.

 

Additionally, many enterprises often do not focus on raising quality of financial and accounting staffs. Representatives from universities said Vietnamese firms stand outside the training process. They always complain that students fail to meet their demand and only want to recruit graduates.

 

Many universities say that enterprises always want to recruit graduates with excellent degrees, but in fact, they usually use accounting staffs with medium capacity for simple work which can be well done by pupils who graduate from vocational training schools.

 

Deputy Minister of Education and Training Pham Vu Luan said over the past time the Ministry of Education and Training has taken many measures to improve educational quality to urge universities and colleges nationwide to pledge to raise capacity of graduates. This is the force to encourage training centres to study and reform to ensure their quality.

 

To enhance the cooperation’s efficiency and bring benefit for both training centres and enterprises, Assist. Prof. Dr. Ngo Tri Tue, Director of science and state auditing staff training center, said more businesses should join the construction of training programmes; enterprises and universities should actively promote their training strengths, sign cooperative agreements with universities and recruiters. For companies, it is needed to pour more investment for the education sector through granting scholarships or funding specialised activities; boosting activities to raise enterprises’ awareness as well as industry associations inside and outside the country. Without the participation of labour users, construction of contents and assessing criteria of the training process will be not based on the real demand.

 

Truong Thi Thuy, Deputy Director of Institute of Finance, expected that businesses should join hands with training centres to check and adjust training programmes to meet with their demand. “ Businesses should send qualified staffs to participate directly in teaching programmes and scientific councils. Companies also need to give financial support to infrastructure development and scientific research of training centres”, Thuy added.