The Students enrolling in the Bachelor of Accountancy degree programme at UB are not
required to have a pre-entry knowledge of Accounting; however it may be argued that they
decide on their career path at the admission level as they enter in the programme leading to
accounting qualification. Upon successful completion of the programme students are exempted
from some courses in the first level of professional qualifications like Association of Certified
Charted Accountants (ACCA) of UK and the Botswana Institute of Chartered Accountants
(BICA) qualification. As confirmed by previous studies (e.g. Taylor 2000) students come into
university accounting programme with some pre-entry attitudes towards accounting. Kitindi and
Mbekomize (2007) established from tertiary accounting students in Botswana that they chose to
study accounting because of their expectations that accounting is exciting and rewarding career,
and that job prospects in accounting are better than in other fields. The question is: are these
sentiments carried throughout the period of study?