Factors influencing accounting candidates preferences in Malaysia’s higher learning institution / Maheran Zakaria and Wan Noraswaniaty Wan Ahmad

The shortage of chartered accountant in the accounting profession is currently considered a worldwide issue including Malaysia. Interested in this matter and following variables as proposed by Theory of Reasoned Action, the study aims to examine the factors affecting the intention of students in cho...

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Main Authors: Zakaria, Maheran, Wan Ahmad, Wan Noraswaniaty
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spelling my.uitm.ir.448962021-04-09T02:10:53Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/44896/ Factors influencing accounting candidates preferences in Malaysia’s higher learning institution / Maheran Zakaria and Wan Noraswaniaty Wan Ahmad Zakaria, Maheran Wan Ahmad, Wan Noraswaniaty Research Institutions of higher education Curriculum Educational consultants and consulting The shortage of chartered accountant in the accounting profession is currently considered a worldwide issue including Malaysia. Interested in this matter and following variables as proposed by Theory of Reasoned Action, the study aims to examine the factors affecting the intention of students in choosing accounting as their program preferences in relation to attitude and subjective norms among accounting students from a public higher learning institution in Malaysia. A total of 350 accounting students took part in this study. The study uses Smart Partial Least Square (PLS) version 3.0 to measure the research model. Findings exhibited that the variables namely attitude and subjective norms influenced student’s intention to choose an accounting program. Additionally, the expectations of social groups were reasons where students were more likely motivated to comply. These results provided useful perspectives for corporate leaders, accounting professional associations, and university fraternities to establish policies by highlighting the importance, benefits, and opportunities of the accounting profession to students and social groups. The amassed efforts of the entire accounting fraternities will help to generate a strong interest in new talents in the field and ensure that more will come into the profession. It is expected that the initiative will create to produce a desired number of accountants in the future and therefore accelerates the desire of nations in becoming fully developed countries 2021-02-22 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/44896/1/44896.pdf Zakaria, Maheran and Wan Ahmad, Wan Noraswaniaty (2021) Factors influencing accounting candidates preferences in Malaysia’s higher learning institution / Maheran Zakaria and Wan Noraswaniaty Wan Ahmad. In: Proceedings of International Conference on Language, Education, Humanities &Social Sciences (i-LEdHS2021), 22 Febuari 2021, UiTM Cawangan Kelantan.
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Curriculum
Educational consultants and consulting
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Institutions of higher education
Curriculum
Educational consultants and consulting
Zakaria, Maheran
Wan Ahmad, Wan Noraswaniaty
Factors influencing accounting candidates preferences in Malaysia’s higher learning institution / Maheran Zakaria and Wan Noraswaniaty Wan Ahmad
description The shortage of chartered accountant in the accounting profession is currently considered a worldwide issue including Malaysia. Interested in this matter and following variables as proposed by Theory of Reasoned Action, the study aims to examine the factors affecting the intention of students in choosing accounting as their program preferences in relation to attitude and subjective norms among accounting students from a public higher learning institution in Malaysia. A total of 350 accounting students took part in this study. The study uses Smart Partial Least Square (PLS) version 3.0 to measure the research model. Findings exhibited that the variables namely attitude and subjective norms influenced student’s intention to choose an accounting program. Additionally, the expectations of social groups were reasons where students were more likely motivated to comply. These results provided useful perspectives for corporate leaders, accounting professional associations, and university fraternities to establish policies by highlighting the importance, benefits, and opportunities of the accounting profession to students and social groups. The amassed efforts of the entire accounting fraternities will help to generate a strong interest in new talents in the field and ensure that more will come into the profession. It is expected that the initiative will create to produce a desired number of accountants in the future and therefore accelerates the desire of nations in becoming fully developed countries
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author Zakaria, Maheran
Wan Ahmad, Wan Noraswaniaty
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Wan Ahmad, Wan Noraswaniaty
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title Factors influencing accounting candidates preferences in Malaysia’s higher learning institution / Maheran Zakaria and Wan Noraswaniaty Wan Ahmad
title_short Factors influencing accounting candidates preferences in Malaysia’s higher learning institution / Maheran Zakaria and Wan Noraswaniaty Wan Ahmad
title_full Factors influencing accounting candidates preferences in Malaysia’s higher learning institution / Maheran Zakaria and Wan Noraswaniaty Wan Ahmad
title_fullStr Factors influencing accounting candidates preferences in Malaysia’s higher learning institution / Maheran Zakaria and Wan Noraswaniaty Wan Ahmad
title_full_unstemmed Factors influencing accounting candidates preferences in Malaysia’s higher learning institution / Maheran Zakaria and Wan Noraswaniaty Wan Ahmad
title_sort factors influencing accounting candidates preferences in malaysia’s higher learning institution / maheran zakaria and wan noraswaniaty wan ahmad
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