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Title : BusinessOperatorsâ Opinions towards the Desirable
Characteristics of the Accountants in Phuket Province
Researcher: Sopapun Chaiyapat
Year : 2012
Abstract
The purposes of this research were to 1) to study the business operatorsâs opinions towards the
desirable characteristics of the accountants in Phuket Province; 2) to compare the opinions of the
business operators based on the type of business, and their business capital. The sample
consisted of 389 business operators in Phuket Province. Questionnaires were used to collect the
data. Survey opinions by coefficient, reliability is .9581 . The statistics employed included frequency,
percentage, means, SD, t-test (Independent Samples T-test), One Way Analysis of Variance, as well
as LSD ( Least Square Difference).
The results revealed that most of the respondents were male, aged 36-45 years, and held Bachelor
Degrees. Most of them were shareholders in the company and members of the company boards,
with more than 10 years working experience. Regarding their business and accounting, it was found
that most respondents owned limited companies which provided services. Most companies had
employed the services from an accountancy company, capital from 1-5 million baht, and 10 million
baht. Many companies did not have an accountant, but employed the services from an
accountancy company. Some companies had their own accountant who held a Bachelor Degree in
Accounting. The most popular accounting program was found to be Express for Windows.
Most respondents expected their accountant to have a high level of the following skills:
administrative and business management, interpersonal relationship and communication skills,
positive personal characteristics, professional skills, academic skills, and proven academic results.
From the hypothesis analysis, it was found that the business operators in Phuket had high
expectations about the accountantâs characteristics. The operators with a different type of business
and the amount of capital had different expectations for the accountantâs characteristics.