The current level of technological development lead to an increased need of privacy and security regarding the personal data of individuals. To respond to the current needs, the new General Data Protection Regulation framework aims to provide the necessary guidance to avoid future data leakage of personal private date. It can be observed that some of the accounting processes need to be examined in order to ensure a full compliance with the requirements of the regulation. The main scope of this paper is to provide a glimpse in the current adoption and compliance with the GDPR regulation in the case of the accounting profession in Romania, as well as providing guidance for an easier compliance. To the best of the authorsâ?? knowledge, this is the first paper that investigates the correlations between the regulation and the accounting profession in the context of Romania, from an information security perspective. After conducting an empirical analysis to assess the current level of knowledge and compliance, the results highlighted that, at the time of the study, with less than 2 months before the adoption date at the EU level, there was a significant gap of knowledge and compliance in the case of the accounting profession in Romania. Still, it is expected for this gap to decrease in the future months once the deadline is approaching.
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