The Role Of Accounting Knowledge In Defining The Career Of A Public Accountant

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10.2991/piceeba2-18.2019.12How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Theory of Planned Behavior, Knowledge, Public Accountant Profession

Abstract

Public accounting professions play a crucial role in the economic advancement. However, only few graduates in accounting majors are interested in this profession. This is quite unsettling. Knowledge is one of the determinants in selecting future career path. Therefore, this study aims at describing the role of accounting knowledge with regard to the students’ intentions to work in public-accounting-related profession using the Theory of Planned Behavior (PBC) approach. Surveys, interviews, document analyses and observations were used to collect data. In conclusion, accounting knowledge played an important role in stimulating attitude and perceived behavioral control and eventually increased the students’ intention to work in public-accounting-related profession. This had a fairly major role, especially for high calibre students. On the other hand, subjective norms occurred in their selection of accounting major per se, and did not have any roles in defining their career selection.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Agnes Jessica
AU  - Ria Sandra Alimbudiono
AU  - Eko Pudjolaksono
PY  - 2019/04
DA  - 2019/04
TI  - The Role Of Accounting Knowledge In Defining The Career Of A Public Accountant
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Padang International Conference on Education, Economics, Business and Accounting (PICEEBA-2 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 88
EP  - 96
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/piceeba2-18.2019.12
DO  - 10.2991/piceeba2-18.2019.12
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