ABSTRACT
Occupational choice in an open society is founded ideally upon access to information concerning opportunities in all available vocations. The individual has perfect knowledge of options and forms a preference on the basis of the relationship between his own qualifications and abilities, and those necessary to fulfill the demands of the occupation. Information concerning the new profession of chartered accountancy with its limited clientele and localized urban existence would have been most available during the 1854-1914 period to youths with a practising relative. With regard to chartered accountancy, career guides to the professions would only have had a very limited and delayed impact on determining the supply of recruits. The connection between chartered accountancy and potential recruits could thus be established through direct employment contacts and experience.
