Factors Affecting Career Choice of Business Students in the Senior High Schools: A Study of Selected Schools in the Cape Coast Metropolis

Duku John Archison (), Bosu Leticia (), Ansah Dominic Ekow (), Agyapong Abigail Achiaa (), Bafowaah Abigail Afia (), Drokow Ebenezer Kobina () and Arboh Francisca ()
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Duku John Archison: Xi’an Jiaotong University, School of Management, People’s Republic of China
Bosu Leticia: University of Cape Coast, Department of Business and Social Sciences Education, Ghana
Ansah Dominic Ekow: University of Cape Coast, Department of Business and Social Sciences Education, Ghana
Agyapong Abigail Achiaa: University of Cape Coast, Department of Business and Social Sciences Education, Ghana
Bafowaah Abigail Afia: University of Cape Coast, Department of Business and Social Sciences Education, Ghana
Drokow Ebenezer Kobina: University of Cape Coast, School of Business, Ghana
Arboh Francisca: Hebei University of Technology, School of Economics and Management, People’s Republic of China

Naše gospodarstvo/Our economy, 2021, vol. 67, issue 1, 61-70

Abstract: Factors affecting business students’ choice of career in accounting and factors affecting business students’ inability to choose a career in accounting remains unclear. We used SPSS to analyze data collected from four randomly selected senior high schools in the central region of Ghana through questionnaires. This paper investigated the influences of job opportunities, personal interest, family influence, social status, peer influence, salary expectation, weakness in mathematics, time it takes to become an accountant, and stress involved in the accounting career. The paper then revealed the effects of these influencing factors. Though other factors were found to have substantial effects, the results clearly shows that high salary expectation and job opportunities are the most influential factors that influences a business student’s choice to choose or not to choose a career in accounting. These results could be used as a reference for educational reforms and career counselling.

Keywords: business students; career choice; influential factors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D81 D91 I25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.2478/ngoe-2021-0006

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