This study aims to see how motivation, gender and knowledge about auditing affect accounting students' interest in becoming public accountants. The object of this research is accounting students of STIE Yapis Dompu. The method used is quantitative method, and the sampling technique uses purposive ampling as many as 65 respondents involved in this study. Data collection is done through surveys or distributing questionnaires distributed via Google Forms. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to test the hypothesis. The results of this study indicate that the motivation variable has a significant effect on the interest of accounting students to become public accountants, where t count > t table (7.161 > 1.999) and sig value 0.000 < 0.05, so H1 is accepted. The gender variable has no significant effect on the interest of accounting students in becoming public accountants, where the t value < t table (1.998 < 1.999) and the sig value is 0.050, so H2 is rejected. Because the sig value is right above 0.050, this variable can be categorized as close to significant or marginally influential. And the variable knowledge about auditing has a significant effect on the interest of accounting students in becoming public accountants, where t count > t table (2.396 > 1.999) and sig 0.020 < 0.05, then H3 is accepted
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