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, supportingfindings 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 wellrespected.