Factors Associated with Student Performance in Advanced Accounting: An Empirical Investigation

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Abstract

This paper examines some determinants of student performance in an undergraduate Advanced Accounting course. Of the three motivation factors studied (the grade the student intends to earn in the course, intention to take the Certified Public Accountant examination, and intention to attend graduate school) only the first is associated with student performance. None of the three distraction factors studied (job hours, job type, and course load) has any negative effect on student performance but accounting or business related job types have some significant positive effect on student performance. Of the four self-perceived ability factors used in the study (writing, math, reading, and listening) reading has some significant association with student performance (but only under the ANOVA test) but listening has significant association with student performance under all tests, indicating that students tend to over-estimate their writing and math abilities significantly and their reading abilities to some extent. Finally, the grade in the pre-requisite Intermediate Accounting II course has some association (but only under correlation tests) but overall GPA has significant association with student performance under all tests.

Author

• Mostafa M Maksy, Kutztown University of Penn