THE IMPACT OF ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE UTILIZATION ON STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE: SPECIAL REFERENCE TO UNIVERSITY OF KELANIYA, SRI LANKA
G. C. S Chandrapala
This study attempted to investigate the impact of Accounting software utilization on students’ performance: Special reference to University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. The primary data were collected through the structured questionnaire by using random sampling technique from 125 Bachelor of Business Management Accounting Specialization Undergraduates of University of Kelaniya. Students’ performance was considered as dependent variable with other six proxies, such as prior knowledge in accounting, attitudes towards using accounting software, study habits, perceived usefulness, prior experiences in computer literacy and gender, under the independent variable of accounting software utilization. Collected data were analyzed by using Statistical Package for Social Science version 20, whereby the demographic data were analyzed by descriptive statistics while the hypotheses are tested by using multiple liner regression analysis. The results of the multiple regression analysis revealed that out of six independent variables all are significant with the students’ performance except gender. And only study habits have the negative impact on students’ performance. The results of this study are expected to bring insights to undergraduates and academic staff of University of Kelaniya such that they can better tailor to utilization of Accounting Software to increase students’ performance.
KEYWORDS- Accounting software, Accounting specialization undergraduate, Students’ performance
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Vol | : | 7 |
Issue | : | 3 |
Month | : | March |
Year | : | 2019 |