Table 2: Students’ attitude towards accounting according to gender and year of study
MALE FEMALE
Year 1 Year 4 Year 1 Year 4
Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD
1. Accounting profession is
well-respected 7.8158 1.7220 8.5625 1.4127 8.5692 1.9762 8.4545 1.2286
2. Accounting is just a lot of
rule-memorising 5.4210 3.0459 5.375 2.5265 6.3692 2.6313 5.5000 2.5289
3. Accountants work alone
more than work with
people 5.6578 2.3968 5.5625 2.1899 5.9846 2.9711 5.1591 2.6496
4. My peers would think I
made a good career
decision if I became an
accountant 8.1316 2.2077 7.7500 2.6957 8.1846 2.5180 7.7955 2.2369
5. Accounting is interesting 8.0789 2.2225 7.3125 2.8453 8.9077 1.9180 7.8636 2.2370
6. Being an accountant has a
lot of prestige 7.5263 2.1148 8.2500 1.9149 7.9692 2.4171 8.2500 1.5571
7. Accounting is a lot of
fixed rules; it doesn’t
involve conceptual skills
or judgement 5.5263 2.7187 7.0000 3.3066 6.0769 3.0838 5.4091 3.0827
8. Accounting is a
profession on par with
medicine and law 6.6842 2.4726 7.5000 2.4221 7.0000 2.834 7.4773 2.3076
9. Accountants find little
satisfaction in their work 7.1842 2.7099 7.2500 2.7689 7.4000 2.9728 5.9545 2.6933
10. I would enjoy being an
accountant 8.7368 1.7961 7.8125 2.5617 9.1230 1.8243 8.2273 1.9867
11. Accountants are boring
people 8.4736 2.1901 8.0625 2.3514 8.50769 2.6228 8.0227 2.2975
12. My family would like me
to become an accountant 7.7631 2.6552 7.1875 2.9261 7.5846 2.7607 7.7045 2.0412
13. Accountants are numbercrunchers;
they seldom
work with people 5.4736 2.9840 5.1875 2.9489 6.3231 2.8674 5.7500 2.3931
14. I like accounting 8.9737 1.5154 8.5625 1.9311 8.9384 2.1497 8.3636 2.2318
15. Professionally-qualified
accountants interact with
lots of people 7.4737 2.4243 6.8125 2.3158 7.8769 2.3947 7.4545 2.4727
AVERAGE 7.2614 2.3451 7.2125 2.4745 7.6544 2.5295 7.1591 2.2630