Career Goals And Concerns Of Minority Undergraduate Accounting Majors

Abstract

The growth in large multinational corporations with highly diversified activities, requiring relatively complex financial accounting reporting systems, suggests that a sustained pattern of growth in accounting career positions will continue into the 1990s, and thus an increasing percentage of undergraduate minority students will select accounting as a major. To the extent that higher educational opportunities and career mobility are enhanced, systematic investigations of both socioeconomic and appropriate pedagogical concerns for these enrollees should be pursued. This study examines the career goals and priorities of minority undergraduate majors with the summarization clearly indicating the respondents’ emphasis on career activities as the major motivating force for choosing this professional preparatory program.