Analyzing the factors relevant to students' estimations of the benefits and costs of pursuing an accounting career

Accounting Education

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 313-326

  Chen, Clement ^a   Jones, Keith T ^b   McIntyre, D David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FLINT   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MERCER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounting careers; Accounting majors; Benefits and costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 76649130381     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639280701788703     Document Type: Article

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