The accounting profession plays a very important role in todays world. Recording and the presentation of business events are important elements of the accounting. A person who is responsible for conducting those tasks is an accountant. An accountant is usually described as a creator of value, a person who enables the creation of value, a person who helps to maintain the value and a reporter of the value. As the accounting was developed over the years, the operation of the accounting profession was developing too, and was additionally influenced by globalization and the increasing connectivity of the market. Following the development of the accounting, the different methods of accounting education also developed. Back in the past, the accounting could be performed by persons who did not have the necessary qualifications to perform accounting tasks. Today, there is a tendency toward increased control over the accounting, and the issue of licensing of the accountants becomes increasingly important. The introduction of the necessary licenses for the accounting profession would enable detailed regulation of prerequisites of people who work in accounting. This paper consist a study on "the quality of education of accountants and the status of the accounting profession", which was conducted through the questions in the survey and the detailed analysis of the answers provided by the respondents who work in the accounting profession.