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Factors Affecting Career Choice of Business Students in the Senior High Schools: A Study of Selected Schools in the Cape Coast Metropolis
Journal of Contemporary Issues in Economics and Business
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Factors Affecting Career Choice of Business Students in the Senior High Schools: A Study of Selected Schools in the Cape Coast Metropolis
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Duku, John Archison; Xi’an Jiaotong University, School of Management
Bosu, Leticia; University of Cape Coast, Department of Business and Social Sciences Education Ansah, Dominic Ekow; University of Cape Coast, Department of Business and Social Sciences Education Agyapong, Abigail Achiaa; University of Cape Coast, Department of Business and Social Sciences Education Drokow, Ebenezer Kobina; University of Cape Coast, School of Business Arboh, Francisca; Hebei University of Technology, School of Economics and Management |
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business students, career choice, influential factors |
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Factors affecting business students’ choice of career in accounting and factorsaffecting business students’ inability to choose a career in accounting remainsunclear. We used SPSS to analyze data collected from four randomly selectedsenior 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, weaknessin mathematics, time it takes to become an accountant, and stress involvedin 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.
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Faculty of Economics and Business
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2021-03-15
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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application/pdf
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http://ng-epf.si/index.php/ngoe/article/view/257
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Naše gospodarstvo/Our economy; Vol 67, No 1 (2021); 61-69
2385-8052 0547-3101 |
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eng
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http://ng-epf.si/index.php/ngoe/article/view/257/236
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Copyright (c) 2021 Naše gospodarstvo/Our economy
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