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The effect of demographic and academic backgrounds on financial accounting performance

The main objective of this study is to compare the Financial Accounting performance between students with and without Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia grades and their demographic background. The study was carried out among the Diploma in Accountancy students at Universiti Teknologi MARA Kedah campus. 190 u...

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Main Authors: Wan Abdullah, Wan Faizah, Abu Bakar, Siti Salmah, Marzuki, Marzlin, Abdul Rahim, Noraini, Jusoff, Kamaruzaman
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Published: Institute of Interdisciplinary Business Research 2009
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17076/1/The%20effect%20of%20demographic%20and%20academic%20backgrounds%20on%20Financial%20Accounting%20performance.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.170762019-04-11T06:20:32Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17076/ The effect of demographic and academic backgrounds on financial accounting performance Wan Abdullah, Wan Faizah Abu Bakar, Siti Salmah Marzuki, Marzlin Abdul Rahim, Noraini Jusoff, Kamaruzaman The main objective of this study is to compare the Financial Accounting performance between students with and without Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia grades and their demographic background. The study was carried out among the Diploma in Accountancy students at Universiti Teknologi MARA Kedah campus. 190 usable data were obtained from the Academic Affairs Department at the campus. Independent t-test was used to analyse the data. The finding shows that the performance of students with SPM Accounting is significantly higher for FAR 100 and FAR 200. The same result is true for those with SPM Commerce on FAR 100. On the other hand, there is no significant difference between those with and without SPM Additional Mathematics and SPM Economics performances in all Financial Accounting courses. In terms of gender, females performed significantly better in FAR 200 only. For school location, there is no difference between students from urban and rural schools on the performance of Financial Accounting. Institute of Interdisciplinary Business Research 2009-09 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17076/1/The%20effect%20of%20demographic%20and%20academic%20backgrounds%20on%20Financial%20Accounting%20performance.pdf Wan Abdullah, Wan Faizah and Abu Bakar, Siti Salmah and Marzuki, Marzlin and Abdul Rahim, Noraini and Jusoff, Kamaruzaman (2009) The effect of demographic and academic backgrounds on financial accounting performance. Interdisciplinary Journal of Contemporary Research in Business, 1 (5). pp. 112-122. ISSN 2073-7122 http://www.ijcrb.com/archives.htm
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description The main objective of this study is to compare the Financial Accounting performance between students with and without Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia grades and their demographic background. The study was carried out among the Diploma in Accountancy students at Universiti Teknologi MARA Kedah campus. 190 usable data were obtained from the Academic Affairs Department at the campus. Independent t-test was used to analyse the data. The finding shows that the performance of students with SPM Accounting is significantly higher for FAR 100 and FAR 200. The same result is true for those with SPM Commerce on FAR 100. On the other hand, there is no significant difference between those with and without SPM Additional Mathematics and SPM Economics performances in all Financial Accounting courses. In terms of gender, females performed significantly better in FAR 200 only. For school location, there is no difference between students from urban and rural schools on the performance of Financial Accounting.
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author Wan Abdullah, Wan Faizah
Abu Bakar, Siti Salmah
Marzuki, Marzlin
Abdul Rahim, Noraini
Jusoff, Kamaruzaman
spellingShingle Wan Abdullah, Wan Faizah
Abu Bakar, Siti Salmah
Marzuki, Marzlin
Abdul Rahim, Noraini
Jusoff, Kamaruzaman
The effect of demographic and academic backgrounds on financial accounting performance
author_facet Wan Abdullah, Wan Faizah
Abu Bakar, Siti Salmah
Marzuki, Marzlin
Abdul Rahim, Noraini
Jusoff, Kamaruzaman
author_sort Wan Abdullah, Wan Faizah
title The effect of demographic and academic backgrounds on financial accounting performance
title_short The effect of demographic and academic backgrounds on financial accounting performance
title_full The effect of demographic and academic backgrounds on financial accounting performance
title_fullStr The effect of demographic and academic backgrounds on financial accounting performance
title_full_unstemmed The effect of demographic and academic backgrounds on financial accounting performance
title_sort effect of demographic and academic backgrounds on financial accounting performance
publisher Institute of Interdisciplinary Business Research
publishDate 2009
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17076/1/The%20effect%20of%20demographic%20and%20academic%20backgrounds%20on%20Financial%20Accounting%20performance.pdf
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