Career Aspiration among Secondary School Accounting Students in Selangor

In accounting class, students are trained to prepare accounts for other person's business, not his or her business. Does accounting student really want to be in accounting career path? Does teaching accounting mean that preparing student to be an accountant only? What about student who wants to be an entrepreneur? The aim of this paper is to report career aspiration among 117 secondary school students who take accounting subject in the state of Selangor. The finding discusses students' aspiration and expectation related to accounting field, entrepreneurship as a career and non business career. It is suggested that teaching and learning accounting at secondary school should encourage students to learn accounting from an entrepreneur perspective.