IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/hur/ijaraf/v6y2016i3p78-88.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Perception of Undergraduate Accounting Students towards Professional Accounting Career

Author

Listed:
  • Azni Suhaily Binti Samsuri
  • Tengku Rahimah Binti Tengku Arifin
  • Suhaili Binti Hussin

Abstract

Prior studies indicate that people’s perception have an important influence on their career decision. Career decision plays a major role in the way students recognize their future career prospects. There are lots of determinants that influence accounting students’ perceptions on professional accounting career such as job stability and opportunities for advancement. In Malaysia, the result shows that only few percentages among students with the intention to pursue professional qualification while the remaining plan to immediately work in non-accounting areas after graduating. In this regards, this theoretical paper proposes to study the factors affecting the perception of undergraduate accounting students towards professional accounting career. Motivation, interest/ambition, parent desired, opportunities and salary scale are the main factors highlighted in this paper. It is expected that this study has vital implication for educational institutions, relevant accounting professional bodies and career counselors. This study may potentially influence the accounting students in order to make decision of pursuing professional accounting career.

Suggested Citation

  • Azni Suhaily Binti Samsuri & Tengku Rahimah Binti Tengku Arifin & Suhaili Binti Hussin, 2016. "Perception of Undergraduate Accounting Students towards Professional Accounting Career," International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting, Finance and Management Sciences, Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting, Finance and Management Sciences, vol. 6(3), pages 78-88, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:hur:ijaraf:v:6:y:2016:i:3:p:78-88
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hrmars.com/hrmars_papers/Article_09_Perception_of_Undergraduate_Accounting_Students_(1).pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: http://hrmars.com/hrmars_papers/Article_09_Perception_of_Undergraduate_Accounting_Students_(1).pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Karlsson, Per & Noela, Massa, 2022. "Beliefs influencing students’ career choices in Sweden and reasons for not choosing the accounting profession," Journal of Accounting Education, Elsevier, vol. 58(C).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:hur:ijaraf:v:6:y:2016:i:3:p:78-88. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Hassan Danial Aslam (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://hrmars.com/index.php/pages/detail/Accounting-Finance-Journal .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.