Expectations And Motivations Of Accounting Students From Accounting Education: Ağrı Province Case

Abstract

The aim of this study is to identify the problems regarding the expectations and motivations of the senior students of the University and Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School from accounting education and attempt to suggest solutions to these problems. A survey for 119 senior grade students is conducted to determine their expectations and motivations from accounting education. Frequency, proportion, mean analysis and ttest is done. According to results of the study it is determined that, students have high motivations about graduation from university, they want to learn more about accounting, when they graduate from this department, they have more confidence in themselves and they are eager to improve themselves but anxious about the exams. Besides, it is determined that, there are statistically significant differences between the groups of graduation variable with regard to expectations from accounting education and self confidence and between the groups of doing internship variable with regard to self confidence.