Career Planning of Accounting Education Students

摘要

This research focused on finding out the career planning profile of accounting education students and finding the factors that influence the planning of careers and the efforts made by accounting education students to realize their desired careers. This research wasqualitative research. The research subjects were accounting education students at the Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta. The data were collected through interviews and observation which began with a questionnaire to find out the initial data of students career planning. The interviewwas conducted with students using the snowball sampling method. The findings of this research showed that accounting education students had various career plans, with the highest percentage of career plans was as being entrepreneurs or teachers. The factors that influence the career planning included internal factors (psychological) and external factors (social). The efforts made by students in realizing their careers includedbased on preferredsubject and then preparing themselves both in professional skills according to the career they want as well as various other supporting efforts related to their career planning.