The effect of digital literacy sub-dimensions on accounting profession: the case of accounting professional members in the TR90 region

When we look at the point where social life and professional development have reached with the process of digitalization, it is seen that there is quite progress. Digital systems and technology are the necessities of our age. Accounting is among the most affected professions. With the digitalization, professional accountants reflect this change in their social life to their professions. Many digital systems such as e-invoices, e-declarations and e-notebooks that did not exist ten years ago are being used actively nowadays. The aim of this study is to examine the effect of technical, cognitive and social criterias which are sub dimensions of digital literacy on accounting profession. For this reason, a model was created by applying a questionnaire to 184 professional accountants that operating in TR90 Region (Artvin, Giresun, Gumushane, Ordu, Rize and Trabzon). Structural equation model was used to test the model. According to the analysis results; it can be stated that the technical sub-dimension of digital literacy has a positive and high impact on the accounting profession. In addition, it can be said that the cognitive and social sub-dimensions of digital literacy have a positive effect on the accounting profession but not as high as the technical sub-dimension. When the results of the analysis are considered, it can be said that the members of the profession give more importance to the technical dimension of digital literacy than the cognitive and social sub-dimension.