The study compared the accounting students’ attitude towards accounting profession between first year and fourth year students as well as between genders. The first year accounting students have a reasonably positive attitude towards the accounting programme, supporting the findings of Saudagaran that students begin with positive perceptions of accounting. There is a decline in attitude score when compared to the fourth year students but the scores remain positive. Both first year and fourth year students perceive the accounting profession to be well-respected.
Fourth year students find accountants to have little satisfaction in their work and the accounting field less interesting as compared to the first year students. Senior students however have a more positive attitude towards accounting as a profession. They also regard accountants as having a lot of prestige, the accounting profession well-respected and at par with medicine and law.