The relationship between accounting internships and changes in students' perceptions of the importance of certain job attributes / Eley Suzana Kasim

Accounting internship programs have been implemented in ITM for many years. Despite the continuing effort to expose students with the working environment, very small numbers of ITM accounting graduates actually become public accountants. Among commonly cited reasons is the presence of "occupati...

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spelling my-uitm-ir.1030812024-11-26T07:08:52Z The relationship between accounting internships and changes in students' perceptions of the importance of certain job attributes / Eley Suzana Kasim 1998 Kasim, Eley Suzana Research Accounting internship programs have been implemented in ITM for many years. Despite the continuing effort to expose students with the working environment, very small numbers of ITM accounting graduates actually become public accountants. Among commonly cited reasons is the presence of "occupational reality shock" when there is a gap between the expectations of students and the realities of the profession. This paper investigates whether such programs are effective in changing the perceptions of interns regarding several job attributes towards more realistic expectations. Also, possible factors affecting their perceptions were examined. A survey was conducted by distributing questionnaires to 160 interns and 190 non-interns . The results indicated weak support for the effectiveness of internship in changing the perceptions of ITM accounting students. Moreover, factors such as gender, type of organisation and types of work, performed did not significantly affect perceptions except for a few attributes. These findings suggested that internship may not be effective specifically in terms of changing their perceptions and so contradicts findings from similar prior research. 1998 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/103081/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/103081/1/103081.pdf text en public masters Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Faculty of Accountancy
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The relationship between accounting internships and changes in students' perceptions of the importance of certain job attributes / Eley Suzana Kasim
description Accounting internship programs have been implemented in ITM for many years. Despite the continuing effort to expose students with the working environment, very small numbers of ITM accounting graduates actually become public accountants. Among commonly cited reasons is the presence of "occupational reality shock" when there is a gap between the expectations of students and the realities of the profession. This paper investigates whether such programs are effective in changing the perceptions of interns regarding several job attributes towards more realistic expectations. Also, possible factors affecting their perceptions were examined. A survey was conducted by distributing questionnaires to 160 interns and 190 non-interns . The results indicated weak support for the effectiveness of internship in changing the perceptions of ITM accounting students. Moreover, factors such as gender, type of organisation and types of work, performed did not significantly affect perceptions except for a few attributes. These findings suggested that internship may not be effective specifically in terms of changing their perceptions and so contradicts findings from similar prior research.
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author Kasim, Eley Suzana
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title The relationship between accounting internships and changes in students' perceptions of the importance of certain job attributes / Eley Suzana Kasim
title_short The relationship between accounting internships and changes in students' perceptions of the importance of certain job attributes / Eley Suzana Kasim
title_full The relationship between accounting internships and changes in students' perceptions of the importance of certain job attributes / Eley Suzana Kasim
title_fullStr The relationship between accounting internships and changes in students' perceptions of the importance of certain job attributes / Eley Suzana Kasim
title_full_unstemmed The relationship between accounting internships and changes in students' perceptions of the importance of certain job attributes / Eley Suzana Kasim
title_sort relationship between accounting internships and changes in students' perceptions of the importance of certain job attributes / eley suzana kasim
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publishDate 1998
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/103081/1/103081.pdf
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