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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, 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)

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.

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  • Duku John Archison & Bosu Leticia & Ansah Dominic Ekow & Agyapong Abigail Achiaa & Bafowaah Abigail Afia & Drokow Ebenezer Kobina & Arboh Francisca, 2021. "Factors Affecting Career Choice of Business Students in the Senior High Schools: A Study of Selected Schools in the Cape Coast Metropolis," Naše gospodarstvo/Our economy, Sciendo, vol. 67(1), pages 61-70, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:ngooec:v:67:y:2021:i:1:p:61-70:n:5
    DOI: 10.2478/ngoe-2021-0006
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    Keywords

    business students; career choice; influential factors;
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    JEL classification:

    • D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
    • D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
    • I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development

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