Factors explaining the choice of finance major: students’ perception towards finance profession
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Absorbing course; analytical; effective; new ideas; Interest; individualistic; precision; structure;All these keywords.
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- E6 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
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