Open AccessAwareness towards Accountancy as a Profession
Author(s) -
Azrinawati Mohd Remali,
Kirrthini Apalasamy,
Logalatha Jegadeesvaran,
Mahasri Laxmanarao,
R Morgan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
asian social science and humanities research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2636-9109
DOI - 10.37698/ashrej.v1i2.6
Subject(s) - economic shortage , subject (documents) , accounting , government (linguistics) , misinformation , political science , psychology , public relations , medical education , business , medicine , library science , linguistics , philosophy , computer science , law
This study investigates the awareness of secondary school students towards accountancy as a profession due to the shortage of qualified accountants required by Malaysia government in the era 2020. A lack of information/misinformation about what accounting is and what accountants do which caused the school leavers having less awareness regarding the accountancy profession. There are four factors that been tested; namely as gender, personal interest, level of difficulties for accounting subject as well as knowledge and career prospects. The study focuses on secondary school students and 270 students who taking Principle of Account subject at Segamat, Johor and Muadzam Shah, Pahang secondary. The analysis of data utilizes the statistical package of SPSS. The result revealed that personal interests as well as knowledge and career prospects have significant relationship with the awareness of students towards accountancy as a profession. Meanwhile gender and level of difficulties for accounting subject do not have significance difference/relationship with the awareness of students towards accountancy as a profession.