South African career guidance counsellors' and mathematics teachers' perception of the accounting profession

Accounting Education

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 457-472

  Coetzee, Stephen ^a   Oberholzer, Ruanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Accounting profession; Perceptions; Secondary school teachers; South Africa; Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959986687     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639280903411328     Document Type: Article

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