Content of review 1, reviewed on May 28, 2018

What will be the position/stance of the University when certain students do not pursue a specific major, like accounting, because the objectives of the program do not fit the students' objectives [outcome expectations of the career] based on culture. This paper provides answers to the aforementioned question whereby the authors carried out a qualitative approach research based on interviews with students. The target population were indigenous Australian students. The authors based their analysis on the principles of societal values of life, as well as on the secondary data collected from published work. The paper is well organized in its parts except that it does not give a special focus section on methodology. This gap is covered by the streamlined approach used to reach to the recommendations. Special features of the paper include: "All interviewed indigenous students wanted to specialize in areas that are useful to the community and keeps them participating such as arts, medicine, and teaching". However, it is a matter of creating awareness among the community and at the same time the government has to invest and support the socioeconomic well being of the aboriginal communities to ease the citizens' concerns and encourage careers not counted as against cultural values as accounting. The authors contend that the "recent and growing awareness among Indigenous leaders that accounting is useful for self-determination and for administering community wealth" proves the necessity of spreading the required awareness. This research sheds light on an important dimension that must be considered, not only in Australia, but in other countries where indigenous communities exist. A cross-country research is recommended in the future to comparatively create a pattern in order to address cultural differences which could act as barriers to many educational majors which may be of help to the communities.

Source

    © 2018 the Reviewer (CC BY 4.0).

References

    2018. Accounting Career Choice Theories: Is Culture an Impediment?. Archives of Business Research, 6.