Analysis of Determinants of Accounting Student Intention to Take Certified Public Accountant Exam

Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission of the Executive Yuan promulgated the fully amended Certified Public Accountant Act in 2007, which directly led to significant changes in accounting law. From the perspective of the economic theory of law, this study investigates the amendment of the Certified Public Accountant Act resulting in an increase or decrease in the overall revenue and different revenue shares of accounting firms, and puts forward measures that should be taken by accounting firms and stakeholders. We focus on large accounting firms and divide the sample period into before and after 2008. This study uses the translog revenue function and revenue share functions of the public accounting industry, and based on the 1989–2017 Survey Report of Audit Firms in Taiwan, and we find that the amendment of the Certified Public Accountant Act has had a positive effect on overall revenue, increasing overall revenue and the overall management advisory services shares, and in reducing the overall accounting and auditing shares and tax services shares of large accounting firms. Additional analyses provide regulators with public policy implications and provide accounting firms with managerial information.

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Habilidades profesionales y certificaciones internacionales del área contable

Journal Managment & Business Studies ◽

10.32457/jmabs.v3i2.1624 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-21

Author(s):

osmária Lima Ribeiro de Oliveira ◽

Victor de Melo Avila ◽

Luciano Couto Luiz

Keyword(s):

Certified Public Accountant ◽

Management Accountant ◽

Desarrollo Profesional ◽

Competencias Profesionales ◽

Sobre Todo ◽

Public Accountant

El ejercicio de la profesión contable es reconocido históricamente por su control de acceso y ejercicio, con el fin de certificar la calificación del candidato en el área. A nivel internacional, respondiendo a las necesidades de las empresas auditoras, se formaron asociaciones con el objetivo de acreditar a los candidatos que se proponen ejercer la función. Hoy en día, la armonización contable, el mayor acceso a la información y el posible tránsito de profesionales entre países, han llevado a los jóvenes a someterse a certificaciones internacionales en busca de oportunidades de carrera internacional o incluso para su desarrollo profesional en Brasil. El artículo tiene como objetivo analizar los exámenes recientes de las entidades certificadoras internacionales —Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Management Accountant (CMA) yAssociation of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)— desde la perspectiva de las competencias profesionales en relación con la lista de competencias de Le Boterf, integrada a la estrutura de la taxonomía de Bloom. La adopción de estándares internacionales, sobre todo dictados por lasNormas Internacionales de Información Financiera (NIIF), requiere que los estudiantes y profesionales se sometan a exámenes promovidos por entidades certificadoras reconocidas internacionalmente para el pleno ejercicio de sus atribuciones con miras a una carrera exitosa. Así, a través de la investigación documental realizada en las pruebas anteriores —CMA 2017, CPA 2019 y ACCA 2020— en base a los modelos antes mencionados, se rastreó el nivel de demanda y competencias relacionadas que pueden servir de guía para futuros candidatos. Los resultados revelan que las competencias más demandadas son aquellas que abordan perspectivas intelectuales y técnicas. A partir del material analizado, el 75% de las preguntas están estructuradas para respuestas únicas y el 25% para respuestas de ensayo. Se observó que el 64% de las preguntas se ubican en niveles intermedios de la taxonomía de Bloom: aplicar y analizar. En comparación con los exámenes brasileños, los exámenes internacionales tienen un mayor nivel de complejidad y requieren una preparación a niveles adecuados.

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The Effect of Type A Personality and Public Accountant Law Perception on Career Interests as Public Accountants

International Journal of Applied Business and International Management ◽

10.32535/ijabim.v6i2.1100 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 47-54

Author(s):

Ni Nyoman Sri Rahayu Damayanti ◽

I Gde Agung Wira Pertama

Keyword(s):

Data Distribution ◽

Type A ◽

Reliable Data ◽

Accounting Students ◽

Career Interests ◽

High Achievement ◽

Public Accountants ◽

Type A Personality ◽

Accounting Student ◽

Public Accountant

Individuals with type A personalities are people with high achievement-oriented, competitive, and fast workers. They are considered qualified to be public accountants. However, the perceptions of public accountant laws influence their career interests. The purpose of the research is to investigate the influence of type A personality and perception of public accountant law on career interests of accounting students as public accountants. The data were collected by disseminating questionnaires to respondents of 94 accounting students of the 7th semester and above at the private universities in Denpasar. All instruments are valid and reliable. Data distribution has been freed from classical assumptions. The findings indicate that type A personality and the perception of public accountant laws have positive and significant effects on accounting student career interests as public accountants.

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Assessment of the Jordanian Certified Public Accountant JCPA Examination in Comparison to the International Accounting Education Standards and the Best International Practices

International Business Research ◽

10.5539/ibr.v10n8p232 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 10 (8) ◽

pp. 232

Author(s):

Mahmoud Nassar ◽

Husam Aldeen AL-Khadash

Keyword(s):

Accounting Education ◽

International Accounting ◽

Certified Public Accountant ◽

Education Standards ◽

Accounting Practice ◽

Computer Based ◽

Specific Material ◽

Further Development ◽

Public Accountant

This study aims to highlight the experiences of Jordanian Certified Public Accountant (JCPA) exam that started with the establishment of the Legal Accounting Profession organisation law in June 2006. This study is considered the first study in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan that looks at the evaluation of the Jordanian Chartered Public Accountant exam, in comparison to the requirements of international accounting education standards. Furthermore, this study focuses on the sixth standard IES6 that relates to the assessment of professional accountants and that is based on the best practices in professional accounting examinations in the world. This current study has adopted the method of distribution of questionnaires to gather information from those who participated in taking the exam, with the group of those who were successful, and others that were not so lucky. The accounting practice analysis was based on the standards, the best accounting practices, and the results of the interviews, which when were completed produced a number of recommendations. The recommendations or results found, push for the further development of the JCPA exam and improves the quality of the exam, to advance to the universal level of professional examinations. Of the most important recommendations is to work on increasing the number of times the exam is held annually, which can be done easily if the exam becomes computer based. It’s also important to develop specific firm dates for the JCPA exam or to announce the dates at the beginning of each year, and not to announce the exam time two months prior to the exam as it is currently. Finally, the announcement and clarification of specific percentages given to specific material included in the exam such as dedicating 25% of the examination to International Auditing Standards and so on.

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