Professional image perception of accountants working in business

It is a well-known fact that the profession of accountancy serves an important role in the private sector and carries out a vital duty for the survival of the corporate economy. In order to maintain the efficiency of the profession and to ensure the continuity of both the employees and the resources in the future, the phenomenon called professional image should be acknowledged and applied by the accountancy profession and its workers. Factors that create and improve professional image are quite diverse. Figuring out these determinants will cause image enhancement efforts to be efficient. In this study, age, income, experience, gender, schooling and career are discussed. The statistical tests analyzing which cases were more effective on the image indicated that gender and schooling were ineffective in terms of image. The study has developed policy recommendations by showing which factors are more related to image perception