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This study examines the determinants of accounting students’ career intentions. The study adopted survey questionnaires developed on a 5-point Likert’s scale to collect primary data from 231 final year university students pursuing accounting across Ghana using purposive sampling technique. The study employed the use of PLS-SEM to conduct Regression Analysis. The outcome of the study reveals that the relationship between the future plan and career intentions of accounting students is significantly positive, and a positive perception on the accounting profession influences the accounting student to pursue a career in accounting. Thus, future plans and students’ perception on professional examinations influence the career intentions of the accounting students in Ghana. The study recommends that future studies should explore the effects of other important variables including race, culture, religion, marital status, etc. on the career intentions of accounting students.

The interest of Rural and Community Banks (RCBs) in CSR activities which include education and leadership development, Health, Community development are geared towards ensuring the wellbeing of community members. This means that CRS is key to the success of RCBs. Based on the above reasons the study attempts to examine the influence of CSR on the financial performance of selected Ghanaian Rural and Community Banks. RCBs sampled for this study were fifteen (15) from the Kumasi Metropolis in Ghana using annual reports for a six-year-period from 2012 to 2017. Regression analysis was employed to measure the effect of CSR, financial indicators, bank age, and size of the board of directors using the Data Envelope Technique on the performance of the RCBs. Findings showed that technical efficiency and productivity were low in some RCBs over the six-year-period. The results also showed that technical change, technological change, and Total Factor Productivity affected performance. However, the size of the board of directors was inversely related to the performance of RCBs. There is therefore the need for RCBs to improve input savings and also ensure an efficient allocation of monetary resources to corporate social responsibility activities as a way of enhancing their overall productivity. Not much has been written about the impact of CSR on the financial performance of RCBs in Africa. This study thus is among the first significant attempts to explore the impacts of CSR on the financial performance of RCBs in Africa.