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particular by (a) identifying the stressors that has an impact on an organizationallyemployed against self-employed accountants (b) exploring the association between thosestressors and accountants' questionnaire on symptoms of poor health .This study has significant contribution to the profession generally. The findings can beuseful to formulate effective coping mechanisms for professional accountants. These canbe provided as part of the continuing professional education programs conducted by theMalaysian Institute of Accountants as part of its continuing education in line with IFAC’srequirements on International Education Standards (IES) 5, Continuing ProfessionalEducation.1.5 Study LimitationsThis is just to highlight that there are several limitations in carrying out this researchproject which may not be specific to the researcher but a common issue among student inMalaysia. Firstly, the finance required to carry out this research paper could be higherunder the circumstances it was carried out including in Sabah and Sarawak. Secondly,much more time was required to carry out an extensive study on the psychological healthillness thus limited the number of respondents and specific focus given only to key focusarea outlined in this chapter. In another words, the full survey with right proportion of theorganizationally employed and self-employed were hampered due to time constraint. Theoverall lack resources which was overcome over the period , had a little impact inslowing down the research analysis.8