The Influence of Professional Competencies towards the Satisfaction of Users of Accounting Education Graduates

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to know the influence of professional competencies towards the satisfaction and the expectations of the user of the  graduates. The population of the research was  Accounting business management program in the Vocational senior High School former Resident of  Semarang, Pekalongan, that already empower  alumny as much as 209 people. Using the random sampling proportionately for take 113 peoples. Data collection was conducted by questionnaire and interview. Data analysis with descriptive and simple regression. The results showed that the Professional Competence and satisfaction a user category is good. There is the influence of professional competence graduate  to user satisfaction amounted  37%, and the  63% influenced by variables other than the model. User expectations regarding the graduate accounting education, namely improvement of professional competence: the ability in the computer-based accounting (accounting computerize), tax accounting, syariah accounting,  financial accounting based on IFRS.

Keywords: the professional competence of the graduates, satisfaction of graduates, user expectation of graduates