An empirical study of factors affecting accounting students' career choice in new zealand

International Journal of Phytoremediation

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 325-335

  Ahmed, Kamran ^a   Alam, Kazi Feroz ^b   Alam, Manzurul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Accounting students; Career choice; Factors; Financial; Intrinsic; Market factors; Zealand

Indexed keywords

EID: 85066220235     PISSN: 15226514     EISSN: 15497879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/096392897331398     Document Type: Article

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