Education is one of the most vital aspects of every human life and the society at large. It is the most important aspect of human resource growth and development. Therefore, it is important to ensure academic performance of students at all levels which plays a vital role in producing graduates that will become great leaders and manpower for the country which is the responsible for a country’s socio-economic development. It is therefore, very important for students to make good career choices that will effect positively on them and their environment. The choice of profession or career they make is very important and should be made with utmost consideration of factors such as environmental factors which could be internal or external. The choices students make as regard their profession or area of specialization is what drives the individuals daily schedule for the rest of his/her life as well as their life style, work balance and general quality of life.
Accounting is one subject that cannot be jettisoned from the daily activities of human lives irrespective of the individual’s profession or career. Accounting is concerned with the acquisition of knowledge for recording, analyzing, interpreting, and summarizing the financial data of an organization or enterprise. Every business needs the knowledge of accounting to strive and ensure growth. Therefore, the academic performance or effective and efficient area of specialty of an individual cannot be separated from the home environment in which the child lives. This is because the home environment offers the child with all the support and security he/she needs especially in the choice of career and area to specialize on. Education which offers to train people in becoming useful to themselves and the society and the starting point of been useful begins at home.
People are motivated to work and improve on the area of specialization when their home environment are filled with interesting activities that challenges them to improve on what they do or skills acquired. Some homes have lots of activities that stimulate the child towards thinking of a taking a particular career such as accounting. In some homes you may find that the father and mother are practicing same career, such can influence the child in making some career choices. Much of the variability in the relation between family income and children’s intellectual development comes from the family provision of a stimulating home environment. Children intellectual development is most strongly influenced by the home environment during infancy and early childhood especially when they are under the direct influence of parents. As children mature, schools and peers also begin to play a role in their intellectual socialization. There is much evidence supporting the hypothesis that the quality of a child’s early learning in the home environment relate positively to the development of intelligent and reading skills and parental involvement in schooling also predict achievement.

Home Environment

The home environment entails emotional warmth displayed by parents while interacting with their children; provision of stimulating and learning experiences in the home and physical surroundings such as safety of play areas and cleanliness. Home environment also refers to aspects of people’s domestic lives that contribute to their living conditions. These factors may be physical (poverty, psychological conditions due to parenting; social circumstances (Empty nest, living alone etc or wider cultural patterns of life related to the location (Suburban environments, Urban environments.

Career Choice

The career choice decision is also difficult not just because of the range of career options available to an individual in the current environment, but having an adequate understanding of a career without getting into it. Too often, only after a person has made sustainable commitments in time, energy, and money or has cut off other opportunities by taking steps to enter a career, does he or she find that it is not what was expected or wanted.
Making a career choice requires getting in touch with ourselves and our surroundings. There are clearly two ways of looking at and assessing options. On one hand it is about intuition and listening to the heart, which helps us create a vision of what one wishes to accomplish in life and how we influence the world. On the other hand it is about the evaluation of the inner self and the environment and uses the brain to evaluate what option is the most suitable one. The former evaluation is usually made in a relaxing environment both physically and mentally. The latter involves considering the pros and cons of each of the options that come from first part. Having a work life balance involves determination and persistence while looking ahead and at the same time being not hugely critical of the past and enjoys the accomplishments and achievements.

Home Environment And Accounting Student Area Of Specialization

The home environment provides the foundation for learning and is an element of an individual life that can affect their career choices and course of study like accounting. The home environment provides opportunities to learn outside the school which helps in facilitating student success in the school environment. Parents’ educational level has the most influence on a young child’s academic performance. It however, affects accounting student area of specialization.
It has been studied that the school environment alone cannot single handedly provide all the support a students’ needs to scale through as an accounting students or improve on the academic performance of the student but rather they can play estimate role in laying foundation of the child in learning how to read and write however, this influence is characterized by various factors such as the parents educational attainment and cultural values. There are innumerable environmental factors that affect accounting student area of specialization. It is obvious that how well an accounting student performs is directly related to his or her environment as well as learning facilities and socio cultural values of the home. Every child is born with certain level of intellectual ability and capability but a good conducive home environment with adequate learning facility will help boost intellectual and academic capability of the child as well as bring out the best in him/her in whatever area he/she chooses to specialize on.
Parent from good learned environment will always have good attitude toward education and make provision for learning materials that will improve and impact on the academic and career choice of the child as well as facilitate the learning process. Educated parents will always believe that it is important to help a child with his or her career choice, educating the child on the things involved in any career choice he/she has chosen and also encourage and motivate the child in his/her course study such as accounting. But however, this is the opposite if a child is from a poor home environment with uneducated or illiterate parents this to a large extent deprives the child the necessary support and opportunities to learn and improve as well as leaves the child struggling with teaching and learning process.

Conclusion

Conclusively, the home environment of a child influences his/her academic achievement as well as career choice. Parents tend to be a motivating factor to how well their children perform in area of specialization. The accounting profession needs total support of parents but when reverse is the case, the child tend to struggle through it.