The Accounting Journal of BINANIAGA Vol. 04, No. 01, June 2019 p-ISSN: 2527 – 4309, e-ISSN: 2580 – 1481 5 th Accreditation Rating: January 14, 2019 – January 13, 2024 Rizki Ahmad Fauzi. Correlation between the student’s perception about professional public accountant and the intention to pursue the career in auditing at the students of department of accounting STIE Binaniaga Page : 49 Research. Correlation between the student’s perception about professional public accountant and the intention to pursue the career in auditing at the students of department of accounting STIE Binaniaga Rizki Ahmad Fauzi Department of Accounting, Economic College of Binaniaga, Bogor, Indonesia hafari3327@gmail.com (R. A. Fauzi) Received: February 18, 2019; Accepted: April 28, 2019; Published: June 30, 2019. To cite this article: Fauzi, Rizki Ahmad. (2019). Correlation between the student’s perception about professional public accountant and the intention to pursue the career in auditing at the students of department of accounting STIE Binaniaga. The Accounting Journal of BINANIAGA. 4 (1): 49-56. doi: Abstract. This research aims to figure out the students’ perception about public accountant and their interest to be an auditor. Population of this research are the active students in the department of accounting at STIE Binaniaga year of 2016 (Semester 5) Sampling technique has applied Stratified Random Sampling and the quantity of the samples are 30 students after getting thru some sampling selection. Dependent variable is the students’ intention to work in auditing. And independent variabe is the students’ perception about professional accountant. The result of this research has indicated a significant correlation is occured between the students’ perception about public accountant and the students’ interest to pursue working in auditing. Keywords: Public Accountant, interest, students perception. Introduction Some cases of the companies which are having problems about financing and government offices which are facing financial scandal or money laundering have been creating big impact for the students. An impact of such the scandal could directly or indirectly have affected the interest of the students to pursue a career in auditing. That kind of possibility has been questioned by the department of accounting or professional public accountant which is it will happen and will jeopardize professional auditing. Such a big risk has been considered by the students who want to be an auditor. In general, accounting scandals will produce a continuous crisis in the perception of huge society which is called the professional ethics crises. Any kind of professional scandal will make the reputation of related profession negative in the public point of view. However, such a scandal will block the recruitment of new employees for such the profession required (McLeod, 2002 and Greengard, 1996 in Cormunale et.at, 2006). Indonesia has quite small total of public accountant. According to the article on IAI website on 14 March 2013, mentioning that the total of public accountants in Indonesia was only 1,000 persons in 2012 which made Indonesia beyond Malaysia which has had 2.500 public accountants and so other countries. The above facts has made Indonesian accountancy tragic since there has been negative perception about public accountant especially in auditing as described above. Based on the previous facts describing about the impact of accountancy scandals in 20th century has been an interesting topic to study related to the issue of ethics crises