The articles used were articles that examine the factors that influence career choices of

accounting students to become professional accountants.

either as the public accountant or else.

Since, it is conducted in a country which has different socio –economic conditions. It helps
Policy makers (regulators), ministry of education, for different universities, and other interested
parties.
to re-analyze the results of research from empirical studies assessing CPAs career choices to
become professional accountants, taking into account numerous aspects that impact and several
different results of each research.
The researcher used a four point likert scale questionnaires and collected the data from those
NEU accounting students who graduated from Batch 2013-2014 to Batch 2017-2018 and have to
pass the licensure board and now working in an accounting field.

Career path refers to the choices of jobs and occupational positions an individual may choose to
hold.

Order logistic regression analysis, perception toward accounting and other social factors. Gender
is also used as a control variable.
This research aims to New Era University – Main Branch.
The factors that influence in choosing a career.
The researchers will be using the Frequency Distribution, a representation, either in a graphical
or tabular format, that displays the number of observations within a given interval, the Chi-
Square Statistic where it is used for testing relationships between categorical variables, and the
Paired T-Test that tells you how significant the differences between the means of two groups,
which may be related in certain features.

This research identifies and integrates the results of existing studies using the meta-analysis
technique, developed by Hunter et al. (1982), of 20 sample articles between 2005-2018. with the
factors of family, student interest, financial rewards, personality, and job opportunities as the
research variable. The results of this research were indicated that family and closest people,
financial rewards/salary, interest, personality, and job opportunities are factors that have a
significant relation with accounting students’ career choices as a professional accountant. Based
on these findings, 5 variables have influence and relation as factors that influence accounting
students’ career choices to become a professional accountant.
The purpose of this paper is to investigate factors that influence accounting students’ preference
toward career paths. According to past literature, choices of career path are influenced by
intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, third parties, and career exposure.
The study aims to identify factors that influence career decision making among accounting
students in University Putra Malaysia. The study relied on primary data obtained from the final
year of accounting students, who are almost graduate.
The internal factors are interest in the subject, self-perception, relationship with family and
friends as well as lecturers. The external factors stated by respondents in this study are education
attainment, salary, experiences from practical training, school and university's entry system and
gender gap. All the factors, however, may related to each other and graduates have a longer time
and several step to choose their career. As the study is based on a single institution, the research
strategy used does not allow for wider generalisation but provides an important insight into the
career decision making of accounting student in Malaysia.

was to determine the influence factors of intrinsic and extrinsic on CPAs in choosing a career
choice in the accounting profession.
From the findings described above, researchers want to re-analyze the results of research from

empirical studies examining accounting students’ career choices to become professional

accountants, bearing in mind several factors influence and several different results of each

research. Conflicting empirical evidence and differences causes factors of each research will be

the researcher's analysis material to find out which factors have the most influence and

relationship on accounting students’ career choices to become professional accountants.