A review of the context of the emergence of accountancy programs in Colombia through different elements that played an important role is made in this document. It poses as a central thesis, that the process of institutionalization of accounting education in the Colombian University System respond to the changes that the policy of country’s economic mid-twentieth century, which was the result of the creation of synergies and the mobilization of surplus capital that the economic and cultural materialize. The document argues that this would generate a loop, in which professional, educational institutionalization in higher education and the establishment of schools remains under playing the role of the accountant already exercised in the company.