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Understanding The Influence of Motives, Preparedness, and Expectations on Accounting Students’ Performance: An Indonesian Study

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Vanica Serly
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Available Online July 2018.
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10.2991/piceeba-18.2018.83How to use a DOI?
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motives, expectations, preparedness, study performance, accounting students
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Accounting students enter universities with a set of motives, expectations and preparedness for their study. These all will lead to students’ efforts in studying accounting to get their best results. The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of motives, expectations, and preparedness on accounting students’ performance in higher education. The performance is measured by the grade of Introduction to Accounting course. The data for this study were collected from 111 accounting students at Universitas Negeri Padang. The results of the study find that students’ motives and preparedness have no significance influence on students’ performance. However, the results show that expectation has significance influence on students’ performance. This results also reveal that no differences in the influence of motives, expectations and preparedness on performance between male or female students. Moreover, no difference is found between students from vocational and general high school in terms of the influence of motives, expectations and preparedness on their achievement.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the First Padang International Conference On Economics Education, Economics, Business and Management, Accounting and Entrepreneurship (PICEEBA 2018)
Series
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date
July 2018
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978-94-6252-581-8
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2352-5428
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10.2991/piceeba-18.2018.83How to use a DOI?
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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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