Abstract
The study is based on employment prospect of accounting education students in Enugu metropolis. The objective of the study was to identify possible employment prospect of accounting education students. Questionnaires was designed and used to collect data from sample of 150 accounting education students, sample from the light institution in Enugu metropolis. In addition, the questionnaire also asked for information related to skill possessed by student of accounting education programme to the job market needs. In the light of the findings of this study, the researchers came to inclusion that student of accounting education have a versatile area for in which their course of the study prepared them to fit in. The researchers also ascertain whether the skills processed by accounting education students are relevant to effective performance on the job. The findings lead to a conclusion that the employment prospect exist in both account and other office related jobs and even in government agencies.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
I.I Background of the Study
Accounting education is a very interesting course and accountants are well placed in the society. However there is a lot of understanding of this study. It is very necessary for us to start this study by defining what accounting is:
Definition of Accounting
Accounting has been defined as the process of identifying, measuring and communicating economic information to permit informed judgement and decision by use of information. Accounting education as a profession has a background or history just like every other professional which prepare the zeal of individual group of individual to pursuit the profession. And most of the higher institution in Nigeria offer degree courses in accountancy and number of accounting books published in the profession increase.
All these contributed to the zeal of individual to embrace the professional that is a self employed after graduation.
Accounting Education
In accounting education before there was a few qualified teachers in secondary schools that teach accounting and these lead to poor output in the field of accounting education. The formulation of new policy on education (NPE) when the critical types of education was emphasized was technical colleges, commercial schools and colleges of technology, polytechnics and some comprehensive schools that interest in technical course as account.