Abstract
The study is
based on employment prospect of accounting education students in Enugu metropolis. The
objective of the study was to identify possible employment prospect of
accounting education students. Questionnaires was designed and used to collect
data from sample of 150 accounting education students, sample from the light
institution in Enugu
metropolis. In addition, the questionnaire also asked for information related
to skill possessed by student of accounting education programme to the job
market needs. In the light of the findings of this study, the researchers came
to inclusion that student of accounting education have a versatile area for in
which their course of the study prepared them to fit in. The researchers also
ascertain whether the skills processed by accounting education students are
relevant to effective performance on the job. The findings lead to a conclusion
that the employment prospect exist in both account and other office related
jobs and even in government agencies.
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
I.I Background of the Study
Accounting
education is a very interesting course and accountants are well placed in the
society. However there is a lot of understanding of this study. It is very
necessary for us to start this study by defining what accounting is:
Definition of
Accounting
Accounting
has been defined as the process of identifying, measuring and communicating
economic information to permit informed judgement and decision by use of
information. Accounting education as a profession has a background or history
just like every other professional which prepare the zeal of individual group
of individual to pursuit the profession. And most of the higher institution in Nigeria
offer degree courses in accountancy and number of accounting books published in
the profession increase.
All these contributed to the zeal of individual to embrace
the professional that is a self employed after graduation.
Accounting
Education
In
accounting education before there was a few qualified teachers in secondary
schools that teach accounting and these lead to poor output in the field of
accounting education. The formulation of new policy on education (NPE) when the
critical types of education was emphasized was technical colleges, commercial
schools and colleges of technology, polytechnics and some comprehensive schools
that interest in technical course as account.
But in the
new national policy on education (1998) vocational subjects to which accounting
bellows are designed cater for difference in talents to create opportunity and
roles to students equip students to live effectively in our modern age of
science and be self employed both in schools and in later life. The prospect of
accounting course and more reasons why people do it is that an individual who
did this course can find him/her self job in many firms and organization. There
are so many areas wheel accounting education students can find jobs and they
are equal employed prospect with every other department under faculty of
management of science such as accountancy, public administration, business
administration, marketing and barking and finance etc. but accounting education
student have an edge over the student of the above mentioned because they are
more exposed in all the subject.
The problem
of accounting education are the emphasized and neglect of the course content of
accounting education and lack of on recognize by the members of the public. It
is a big problem that accounting education students suffers, because they are
only seen as less intelligent people. Unemployment in the labour market today
also contributed to the problem of employment prospect of accounting education
student and inability of government to provide employment prospects for student
after graduation.
The problem
facing accounting education students is that society have a negative attitude
towards the course some people seen as only the course involved teaching and no
vacancy available for the students of accounting education and some accounting
education student have directed their attention to other fields just because
they think that there is no employment prospect after graduation. That is the
reason that motivated me to study this topic, because we hope the findings will
provide awareness for the students of accounting education. There are so many
places where the employment prospects are available for the accounting
education students.
Accounting
education student have equal employment prospect with students of other
department under faculty of management science. Accounting education students
have chances to work as civil servant, private sector and ministry of finance
or ministry of education and in all the financial institution in Enugu. They can also
teach in primary, secondary and polytechnics.
1.2
Statement of the Problem
The emphasis and neglect of the course
content of accounting education contributed to the problem of employment
prospect of accounting education students. The increases in unemployment in the
labour market have reduced the hope of prospective accounting education
students. This is due to inability of government to use available resources to
build industries for the development of the country to encourage job creation
some of accounting education students have directed their attention to other
fields, just because they think there is no employment prospects after
graduation. Therefore, there is need to analyzed the employment prospects of
the accounting education students in Enugu
metropolis.
1.3
Purpose of the Study
The purpose of this study is to examine employment
prospects of accounting education student in Enugu metropolis. Specifically the purposes
include:
i.
To determine areas
of job prospects for accounting education student in Enugu metropolis.
ii.
To determine the
extent to which the skills possessed by accounting education are relevant to
effective performance in the job.
iii.
To determine the
employment problems of accounting education students.
iv.
To make valid
recommendation based on the findings
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