Scope and Determinant of Career Preferences for Accounting Student at Udayana University

ABSTRACT :The accounting world poses broad career preferences as the times go, attracting students tomajor in this field. The wide options of career preferences in accounting field have provided the students variouscareer preferences based on their wishes and skills. Adequate insight and information into accounting careerpreferences will help the students determine the correct accounting career for themselves. This study sought todescribe the career preferences of undergraduate accounting students of batch 2018 and 2019 at Faculty ofEconomics and Business, Udayana University. A descriptive cross-sectional method was used on this study. Thedata were obtained as the results of the questionnaire administered to the samples meeting the inclusion criteria.The number of samples involved in this study amounted to 143 students, of which 71 students of the 2018 batchand 72 students of the 2019 batch. The results of the study revealed that 114 students (79.8%) chose anaccountant career and 29 students (20.2%) choose a non-accountant career. Furthermore, a total of 41 students(35.9%) chose to become internal accountants, 46 students (40.3%) chose to become public accountants, 23students (20.2%) chose to become government accountants, and 4 students (3.5%) chose to become educatoraccountants. The career preferences were driven by intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, career exposure,and gender issues.

KEYWORDS -career preferences, accounting students, accounting careers, Faculty of Economics andBusiness, Udayana University