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

Author(s):  
Ni Nyoman Sri Rahayu Damayanti ◽  
I Gde Agung Wira Pertama

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.

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 417
Author(s):  
Faneshia Tangke Rerung ◽  
David Adechandra Ashedica pesudo

The influence of work environment, financial rewards and personality type A on the choice of a public accountant career. This research aims to determine the effect of the work environment, financial rewards, and type A personality on the choice of a public accountant career. The subjects of this study were accounting students, Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana class of 2017 and 2018. This study used a quantitative approach with a linear regression testing method. The sample of this study was 182 respondents. 79 respondents obtained the distribution of data acquisition from the 2017 class and 103 respondents from the 2018 batch. The data was obtained by distributing questionnaires through the google form. Based on the t-test, it can be concluded that the work environment has a positive effect on the choice of a public accountant career, financial rewards have no effect on the choice of a public accountant career, and type A personality has a positive effect on the choice of a public accountant career. Based on the research that has been done, the following conclusions are obtained. First, the work environment has a positive effect on the choice of a public accountant career. Second, financial rewards do not influence the choice of a public accountant career. Students prefer to have various experiences first, so they do not consider the number of financial rewards obtained. Third, type A personality has a positive effect on the choice of a public accountant career.


Author(s):  
Zahrah Indah Ferina

Zahrah Indah Ferina; A Public Accountant is an accountant who provides services to obtain rewards or fees. The need for public accountants in the era of MEA is increasing, then the purpose of this study is to factors that affect the intention to the profession of Public Accountants. Factors influencing this intention with financial rewards and considerations of labor market. The sample used in this research is 83 respondents. Samples are obtained from accounting students who have completed the Auditing courses at State and Private University in Bengkulu. To analyze the hypothesis, this study used multiple regression analysis.The result of this research showed that financial reward and consideration of labor market has influence in career choosing as public accountant.Key words: Accounting Student, Intention, Public Accountant


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-124
Author(s):  
Linda Yuliana Hutadjulu

This research was conducted to determine the Perception of Accounting students at FEB UNCEN. Data in this study were obtained from questionnaires with accounting student respondents who were in the sixth semester (6). Respondents numbered 91 people who were sampled in this study. The results of this study indicate there are no differences in views between students who choose careers as public accountants, educating accountants, corporate accountants and government accountants, regarding the factors of Financial Awards, Work Environment, Labor Market Considerations andPersonality. As for the factors of Professional Training, Professional Recognition, and Social Values, there are different views.


2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-175
Author(s):  
Adia Adi Prabowo

Students who want to work as public accountants are required to first take thePublic Accountants Certification Exam which is held by the Indonesian Instituteof Certified Public Accountants, but students who take the public accountantcertification exam are still minimal. The purpose of this study is to determine theeffect of economic motivation, personality, barriers, social motivation and qualitymotivation on accounting students’ interest in taking the Public AccountantCertification Exam.The research respondents were all students of semester VIand above Accounting Study Program Department of AccountingSarjanawiyataTamansiswa University. The instrument testing was carried out usingvalidity and reliability tests. To determine the accuracy of the model, classicalassumption testing is carried out followed by multiple regression analysis bothpartially and simultaneously. The results of this study indicate that the variablesof economic motivation, personality, exam barriers, social motivation and qualitymotivation simultaneously influence the interest of accounting students takingthe Public Accountant Certification Exam by explaining the variation expressedin the coefficient of determination, showing that 66.6% of the variation in interestdetermined by social motivation and personality, while 33.4% is determined byother variables not examined in this study but partially personality and socialmotivation have a significant influence on the interests of accounting studentstaking the Public Accountant Certification Exam, while economic motivationvariables, test barriers, and quality motivation does not have a significant influenceon the interests of accounting students taking the Public Accountant CertificationExam.


2019 ◽  
pp. 146
Author(s):  
Putu Vicky Yuliana Paramita S ◽  
Maria Mediatrix Ratna Sari

Public accountants play a role in improving the quality and credibility of financial information. The interest of the people to become a public accountant, is still low. This study aims to determine the interest of non-regular accounting students to become public accountants as measured by student perceptions, self-motivation, and adversity intelligence. This research was conducted on 2015 non-regular accounting students at the Faculty of Economics and Business at Udayana University. Determination of samples using non-probability sampling method with saturated sampling technique. The number of respondents used in this study was 158 people. Data collection method is carried out by a survey method with questionnaire techniques that are measured using a Likert scale. The results of this study indicate that the variables of student perception, self motivation, and adversity intelligence have a positive influence on the interest of non-regular accounting students at Udayana University to become public accountants. Keywords:  student perception, self motivation, adversity intelligence, interest in becoming a public accountant.    


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 366
Author(s):  
Herlin Herlin ◽  
Marlinda Sari

This research aims to gain the perception or attitude of the students towards the profession of public accounting accounting. This research was done at the University of Bengkulu Dehasen addressed to the accounting student with the number of respondents as many as 55 people. To get the perception of this study uses census with sampling method research tool questionnaire presented to students by way of accounting to meet directly and ask for the willingness of the time to fill out the questionnaire provided. The results of this study proves that the most dominant factor affect the perception of accounting students of Dehasen Bengkulu University to the profession of public accountant is the personality and professional recognition. While the factor of financial reward and work environment Does not affect the perception of accounting students of Dehasen University of Bengkulu to the public accountant profession


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-70
Author(s):  
Pandu Chaniago ◽  
Fitrawati Ilyas

The aims of the study were: (1) to analyze the influence of family’s environment against the intention to be public accountant to accounting student; (2) to analyze the motivation against the intention to be public accountant to accounting student; and (3) to analyze the perception of student about public accountant against the intention to be public accountant to accounting student. In this research use Theory of Planned Behavior. The used data was primary data obtained by spreading questionnaires to accounting students of VII semester of economics faculty city of Bengkulu. The total of sample used in this study was 76 respondents. The method of analyzing the data applied was multiple linear regressions.From hypothesis testing it was gotten the result that: (1) family’s environment has a significant influence against the intention to be public accountant to accounting student; (2) Motivation has a significant influence against the intention to be public accountant to accounting student; and (3) student perception about the profession of public accountant has a significant influence toward the intention to be public accountant to the accounting student.Key words: Family’s Environment, Motivation, Perception, Intention and Public Accountant


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesi Kristin P Bere Laka

The aim of this study is to examine. Analysis of  factors affecting students in career selection as a public accountant (Empirical study of  S1  accounting students in private colleges in Surakarta ), either partially or simultaneously.            The Population in this study were all students S1 accounting students in 14 private universities in Surakarta in the 2015 and 2016 classes. Total Populations are 3.830. The sampel of this study are 100 respondens. The samples selected by Proportionate random Sampling method. The analysis method of this study used multiple regression.The results of this study are: 1) Financial rewards/salary does not affect the career choice of students as public accountants. 2) Job market considerations do not affect the career choice of students as public accontants. 3) Professional recognition has a significant positive effect on student career choice as a public accountant. 4) Social values have a significant positive effect on the career choice of students as publik accountants. 5) Personality does not influence the career choice of students as public accountants.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Anugrah Nur Wahyuni ◽  
Sri Ayem

This study aims to determine the effect of perceptions and motivation of accounting students on the interest in becoming a public accountant with the asas kemandirian as a moderating variable. This research was conducted at private universities in DIY which have a CPA test center in collaboration with the Indonesian Institute of Public Accountants (IAPI). The sample was determined using purposive sampling method, so that the total sample was 118 people. The data testing method used is multiple linear regression analysis and moderate regression analysis (MRA). The results of this study indicate that the perceptions and motivation of accounting students have a positive effect on the interest in becoming public accountants. The asas kemandirian strengthens the influence of accounting students' perceptions of their interest in becoming public accountants and has a positive effect. Meanwhile, the asas kemandirian cannot be a moderating variable for the motivation of accounting students to become a public accountant. Keywords: Perception, Motivation, Asas Kemandirian and Interest


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