Scenario planning of Iran's accounting education in a fifteen-year horizon using the Global Business Network (GBN) method.

Purpose and context:

The speed of changes and its epidemic in the current era has changed the type of skills needed in the labor market, in such a way that it is no longer possible to respond to the educational needs of society with past-oriented and one-dimensional planning, and to create lasting and effective changes, an interdisciplinary and future-oriented approach is needed.

The current research is among the mixed designs and it is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of data collection and the scenario writing method was used.Four different scenarios were set for the two drivers that had the highest weight in terms of importance and degree of uncertainty.

In this research, four scenarios of the future of accounting education in Iran were obtained by combining the two main uncertainties regarding the drivers of accounting education, which were described and illustrated in the final stage of this study and with the approval of experts.

Although many and interwoven factors influence the future of accounting education in Iran, but the most priority drivers according to the opinion of experts are the emergence of start-ups and the expansion of business opportunities related to new educational methods, which from the intersection of these two uncertainties, four The scenario of transformation, an impenetrable fortress, entry for the public and finally a custom production line is conceivable from the future of accounting education.