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 thefindings of Saudagaran (1996) 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 wellrespected.