PENGARUH MOTIVASI TERHADAP MINAT MAHASISWA AKUNTANSI UNTUK MENGIKUTI PENDIDIKAN PROFESI AKUNTANSI (PPAK) (Studi Empiris pada Program Studi S1 Akuntansi Universitas Bung Hatta Padang)

Abstract

Accounting is one of the majors that many students interested in higher education, especially the faculty of economics. Accounting Profession is an additional level of education that is intended for a graduate degree in economics majoring in accounting for the title of accountant. Accounting Profession Education (PPAK) is education that can be followed by all graduate accounting majors from all universities, both public and private accountants who wish to obtain a degree. This study aims to analyze and provide empirical evidence about the influence of motivation quality, career motivation, and economic motivation against the interest of accounting students to follow PPAK.

The population in this study were accounting students Bung Hatta University in Padang force from 2011 to 2013. The sampling method incidential sampling, respondents in this study is 90 students, retrieval of data is done using an instrument questionnaire (primary data), the data if using multiple linear regression and SPSS version 16, results of this study indicate that (1) motivation significant effect on the quality of the student attends PPAK interest, (2) career motivation significant effect on the interests of students follow PPAK, (3) economic motivation no significant effect on the interests of students follow PPAK.

 

Keywords: motivation quality, career motivation, economic motivation, interest accounting students.