Financial Accounting and Employment Opportunity

Abstract

Youth development is promoted through activities and experiences that help youth develop social, ethical, emotional, physical, and cognitive competences. Youth leadership is part of person in development and supports the young person in developing; the ability to analyze his or her own strength and weaknesses, set personal and vocational goals, and have the self-esteem, confidence, motivation, and abilities to carry them out (including the ability to establish support networks in order to fully participate in community life and effect positive social change). Alsothe ability to guide or direct others on a course of action, influence the option and behaviours of others, and serve as a role model (Wehmeyer, Agran and Hughes, 1998). Conditions that promote health youth development are supported through programs and activities in schools and communities. Youth development researchers and practioners emphasize that effective program and interventions recognize youth strengths and seek to promote positive development rather than addressing risks in learning and doing and who are connecting to positive adult and peers are less likely to engage in riskly or self-defeating behaviours. The primary goal of accounting education is to produce competent and ethical professional accountants capable of making a positive contribution over their lifetimes to the profession and society in which they work. In the face of increasing changes that they will meet later as professional accountants, it is essential that students develop and maintain an attitude of learning to learn, to maintain their competence later as professional accountants. The accounting program curriculum should provide a foundation of professional knowledge, professional skills, and professional values, ethics and attitudes that enable them to continue to learn and adapt to change throughout their professional lives. These capabilities will enable professional accountants to identify problems, know where to find this knowledge and know how to apply it in an ethical manner to achieve appropriate solutions. The balance of these elements may vary but what is required is to develop the knowledge base, strong skills and ethical values in order to produce competent professional accountants with appropriate values, ethics and attitudes. The field of accounting offers stimulating and challenging work that is constantly evolving. The accounting education program seeks to prepare the student for a general accounting career and eventual entry to any of the four major fields of accountancy: public practice, commerce and industry, government and education. Specific sample job opportunities are the following.