Being an accountant nowadays and the impacts of covid-19 on the accounting field

Mestrado Bolonha em ManagementTechnological evolution has brought about important changes and transformations in different sectors, particularly at the social, cultural, and economic levels. In a market with constant transformation, accounting has the obligation to follow this transformation process to respond to this reality. Within this context, professionals and technicians in this area must be in harmony with the challenges they face daily. This Internship Report aims to address the current challenges and responsibilities of the accounting profession and what kind of impacts Covid-19 has brought to the accounting area, as well as to present the internship carried out as part of the final work of the Master’s in Management. The structure of this report is essentially based on two parts. The first part concerns the description and characterization of the company where I carried out my curricular internship (Moneris SGPS) and the presentation of the tasks performed during the internship period. The second part corresponds to the theoretical framework of the theme, which includes a literature review and a qualitative study by analyzing the experiences, feelings, and opinions of the professionals at the internship place about the challenges and difficulties they face in their daily lives and the impacts that Covid-19 has brought to accounting area.