Accounting for Non-Accounting Students: What Affects Their Performance?

dc.creator	Nurkamariah Kasim
dc.creator	Suhaiza Ismail
dc.date	2012-04-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:27:19Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:27:19Z
dc.identifier	2229-8932
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/b11c693634734862afece98e389780a0
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/21785
dc.description	<p align="justify">This study aims to examine the factors affecting the examination performance of non-accounting students in completing an accounting course, that is, Management Accounting. A questionnaire survey was administered to a total of 147 non-accounting students who enrolled in a Management Accounting course for a semester. The factors considered are gender, prior academic performance, year of study and learning approaches adopted which include deep, surface and strategic approaches. Using multiple regression analysis, the results reveal that prior academic performance and year of study have a positive significant impact on performance while the surface approach of learning has a negative significant impact on the performance of the students. This present study mainly focused on the overall performance of the students and did not investigate the effect of the factors on the performance of the various assessment components in Management accounting course. The findings imply that the Management Accounting course should be offered to higher level non-accounting students. In addition, for completing the course with good results, the surface approach to learning should be avoided. The present study is unique as it considers the students performance in a subject that is not the main discipline of the students (i.e., accounting course for non-accounting students).</p>
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
dc.relation	http://penerbit.uthm.edu.my/ojs/index.php/JTET/article/view/412
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2229-8932
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	Journal of Technical Education and Training, Vol 3, Iss 2 (2012)
dc.subject	Gender
dc.subject	learning approach
dc.subject	non-accounting students
dc.subject	performance, prior academic performance
dc.subject	year of study
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Accounting for Non-Accounting Students: What Affects Their Performance?
dc.type	article