ANALISIS FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI MINAT MAHASISWA AKUNTANSI DALAM PENGAMBILAN SERTIFIKASI AKUNTANSI

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of motivation on the interest of accounting students in taking accounting certification. The sample in this study is accounting students who are actively registered at universities in Batam. The method of random sampling is simple using the Slovin formula. The total respondents were 301 students from 4 universities in Batam. The method used in data collection is the questionnaire method. The questionnaire used came from Hartutik's research (2016) totaling 41 questions. The hypothesis to be tested is that some independent variables have a significant positive effect and some have a significant negative effect in predicting the interest of accounting students in taking accounting certification. The results of this study showed that the variables of quality motivation and social motivation separately affected the variables of student interest significantly positively. While the variables of career motivation and economic motivation separately did not affect the variable of student interest in taking accounting certification. The independent variables of quality motivation, career motivation, economic motivation, and social motivation together have a significant effect on the variable of student interest in taking accounting certification.