Thesis (MTech (Marketing))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2007 / In South Africa, SME development has been identified by government as a priority in creating jobs to solve high unemployment. SMEs also often battle to survive in a tough and ever changing business world. There is a high failure rate among many SMEs. Some of the reasons for the high rate of failure are that the owner or manager is unfamiliar with established business practices, lack of managerial expertise in business management and lack of finance to fund the business. It is essential that the individuals responsible for the management of the business have the necessary training and expertise to equip them for the successful running of the business. It is therefore crucial that all employees in the SME sector irrespective of the department they work in obtain some degree of training and expertise. These employees also need some knowledge of the financial position of the business. This can only be made possible if all employees have a fair amount of financial knowledge so that decision~making is made easier. The curriculum of the CPUT subject 'Accounting for Marketers' may not meet the requirements of SMEs. It is an advisable that SMEs requirements should be continually measured against the course offering to ensure that the course equips the students with the financial knowledge needed by SMEs. This can be done as CPUT has close ties with these SMEs through co-operative education and intemships. An attempt was made to identify the skills and techniques required by the marketing students pertaining to the SUbject 'Accounting for Marketers' in practice and to comparing the syllabi used in education. This comparison would hopefully lead to a clear understanding of the gaps between education and practice, if any, which will enable the researcher to make recommendations regarding the 'Accounting for Marketers' syllabi. The main purpose of the study was to measure the gap, if any, between the subjects 'Accounting for Marketers' offered at CPUT and the requirements of the SMEs. If indeed a gap exists, the institution can broaden certain aspects of the syllabi, by incorporating case studies on legitimate companies, which will aid the students to stay informed about Accounting in their field of expertise. There will be better integration of theory and practice. A descriptive research method was followed using a census survey research design to present a structured comprehensive questionnaire to the total population of SMEs affiliated with the Department of Cooperative Education and that have participated in the experiential training program. The number of SMEs who completed and returned the questionnaires was 15. This resulted in a response rate of 50 percent which was a fair representation of the entire census. In support of the findings recommendations were made regarding each component that formed part of an accounting syllabus. The results indicated that certain components in the accounting syllabus were rated as very important and others not. Components that were referred to as important but which were not a part of the syllabus will be under scrutiny by the researcher to come to a resolution, where these components will be accommodated in the accounting syllabus for marketing students for 2008.

Thesis (MEd (Education))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2016. / This study focuses on the cognitive preparation of National Curriculum Statement (NCS) (Grades 10 – 12) Accounting learners for studies at a University of Technology (UoT). The purpose was to determine to what extent NCS cognitively prepares Accounting learners for studies at a UoT, and whether there is a difference in the extent to which NCS (pre-2014) and CAPS (2014) cognitively prepare learners for the first-year National Higher Certificate in Accounting and Financial Information Systems at a selected University of Technology (UoT). This study is contextually situated within the curriculum theories developed by Basil Bernstein‘s ‘code theory’ in the sociology of education. The theoretical framework for this thesis draws on the work of David Conley’s redefining college readiness, in which he argues that Higher Education (HE) readiness is a multi-faceted concept comprising numerous variables. Cognitive preparation for HE Accounting studies is reviewed in terms of the educational objectives of the cognitive domain of Benjamin Bloom. A mixed method approach for the research design was employed. The quantitative approach entailed completion and analysis of questionnaires by first-year Accounting students at a selected UoT to ascertain learners’ levels of Accounting competence as envisioned by the NCS (Grades 10 – 12). Marks for the Grade 12 National Senior Certificate (NSC) examination in Accounting were obtained so that these examination marks could be compared with students’ levels of Accounting competence and marks at the end of the first term (March). The qualitative approach entailed document analyses of the Accounting FET (Grades 10 – 12) curriculum, the curriculum of the National Higher Certificate, the NSC Accounting examination of 2014, and the National Higher Certificate in Accounting March 2015 assessment, as well as interviews with the Accounting 1 lecturers at a selected UoT. Data revealed that the NCS (Grades 10 – 12) Accounting curriculum (formal or intended curriculum) adequately prepares learners cognitively for studies at a UoT. There is little evidence that CAPS prepares learners better for tertiary studies than students not trained according to CAPS. There is a statistically significant relationship between the mark obtained in the NSC, the mark in the questionnaire and the formal assessment in March. There are, however, various other factors that contribute to academic success or failure and drop-out in HE. Findings from this study suggest that the Department of Basic Education (DBE) and universities could work more closely together in various subject groups to ensure these challenges are met and that universities provide feedback to the DBE on whether the changes implemented are making a difference to the quality of first-year students who enter university.

The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify factors that may have influenced the choice of major and the persistence to graduation of six African American accounting majors who attended and graduated from a private, predominantly white university from the academic years 2003 through 2009. A set of indicators based on several retention studies was selected for the purpose of identifying pre-college, off-campus, and on-campus factors that influenced students' choice of major and persistence to graduate with a major in accounting. The major findings of this study were that early skill development prior to the college experience, family support, and cultural socialization influenced the participants' ability to choose a major associated with their skill set. Their persistence to graduation was attributed to that choice. With regard to future studies, expansion of research on African Americans in higher education will give direction for administrators seeking to increase the number of under-represented students in fields where there is a marketplace need.

In this study an effort is made to determine how certain factors are related to success in elementary college accounting at North Texas State College. The factors which are considered are: grades made in high school bookkeeping, size of high school attended, sex, age, military service, marital status, intelligence, college classification of the student, and high school bookkeeping credit earned by the student.

The purpose of this study is two-fold: first, to evaluate the general requirements for Southern Association membership; and second, to examine the curriculum of the accounting departments of schools that now belong to the Association.

Accounting education research has explained some variation in student performance by aptitude, attitude, and experience variables, as well as gender. The unexplained portion of variance, however, suggests the existence of unidentified variables. This study examines the relationship of visual-spatial aptitude (VSA) to student completion and continuing behaviors and to performance in four accounting courses. VSA is a group of cognitive abilities which facilitate building mental representations and solving problems and which are positively related to performance in mathematics and science courses. This study hypothesizes that high VSA students will complete Accounting Principles I at a higher rate, continue to Principles II at a higher rate, and perform better in Principles I than will low VSA students. Also hypothesized are gender differences and course differences in the relationship between VSA and performance. Subjects are students tracked in accounting courses for three semesters. Independent variables include gender, prior bookkeeping coursework, and major, as well as SAT scores, GPA, and scores on two VSA tests--the MAP Planning Test (MAP) and the Mental Rotations Test (MRT). MAP and MRT measures include the number right, the number wrong, and the percentage right. Dependent variables include student completion and continuing status as well as performance scores in each of four courses. Results indicate that high VSA subjects have a higher completion rate than do low VSA subjects and that completers of Principles I have higher VSA than do droppers. Also, continuers to Principles II have higher VSA than do non continuers. Results indicate relationships between VSA and Principles I scores. Subjects with high MRT percentages score higher on exams and lower on homework/quizzes than do those with low MRT percentages. Subjects with few MRT wrong have higher exam scores than do those with more MRT wrong. MAP is related only to Principles II and Intermediate, while MRT is related only to Principles I, II, and Cost. Relationships of VSA to exams are positive and frequent. Relationships to homework/quizzes are negative and less frequent. Computerized practice set scores are rarely related to VSA. In separate analyses of students taking Principles I, VSA is related to homework and exams for females and only to exams for males. For the smaller sample of students continuing to Principles II, models which contain general aptitude covariates indicate that VSA is only related to female performance and only in Principles I. / Ph. D.

The problem of this study was to isolate predictors of academic success in both self-paced classes and lecture classes in Introductory Accounting. The purposes of the study were to determine if learning style, locus of control, reading ability, age, sex, accounting work experience, and prior accounting academic experience are predictors of success in Introductory Accounting classes taught using self-paced methods of instruction and lecture methods of instruction. Another purpose was to determine if there is a difference in the set of predictors of success in the two instructional methods and to provide some direction as to determinants of success which may be addressed by counselors in advising students. The data were collected from 463 students at a suburban community college in the Southwest. Each of the variables was analyzed by a stepwise multiple regression analysis and a backward elimination regression for students grouped according to instructional method. A two-way multivariate analysis of variance was used to examine whether the distribution of scores on the potential predictor variables were equivalent for students in the two teaching methods and for successful completers of the course and noncompleters. Consideration of the data findings of this study permitted the following conclusions: 1. Age and reading ability have a positive relationship to academic success in an Introductory Accounting course taught in a lecture format. 2. Concrete learning style, as measured by the Learning Style Inventory, age, reading ability, and accounting work experience have a positive relationship to success in an Introductory Accounting course taught in a self-paced format. 3. Age, reading ability, accounting work experience, and a concrete learning style have a positive relationship to academic success in Accounting courses taught using either method. 4. There is a difference in the set of predictors of success for Accounting classes taught using the two instructional methods. 5. There are differences between completers and noncompleters of courses regardless of instructional method.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-03T18:35:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcelo_Rabelo_Henrique.pdf: 361025 bytes, checksum: 7e6971f725a340614aa4f1d12bacaffe (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-10-24 / Forensic Accounting is an option of professional career for future Accountants. It was determined by the Brazilian Resolution CNE/ CES N. 1012004 that the accounting students should be able to interact with the real context. Therefore, the courses should offer qualified professors to teach all the disciplines from the Accounting Course, and Forensic Accounting is also included. Considering this context, the aim of this research was to identify and analyze the teaching conditions of how the discipline Forensic Accounting is taught in Accounting Courses in S??o Paulo city. It was analyzed the teaching conditions and obtained the perceptions from coordinators of the courses concerning Forensic Accounting in two different groups: the first grouped 7 out of the 10 best ranked Accounting courses, according to ENADE 2006 - a Brazilian test that aims to analyze the teaching conditions at Brazilian Universities - and the second grouped 10 random courses, chosen because of accessibility. Some research techniques were applied in this work, as the bibliographical, documental, the analysis of content to evaluate the obtained description of the disciplines, as well as the combination of descriptive statistics and multidimensional scaling for the data collected through questionnaires. The analysis of the descriptions showed that the best ranked courses give more attention to all the content in the description, to the variation in the teaching strategies, to specific blocks of content and to the range of evaluation criteria. The analysis of the coordinators from the other universities indicated that, in such universities, there is a more constant change of course coordinators and an agreement that the offered contents are related to the aims of the course. The results obtained from the questionnaires showed that, within each university, the subjects from 3 of the best ranked universities and from 3 of the other random universities have similar views relating the dimensions "general aspects of the disciplines" and "extra activities". However, there is no agreement between the 2 distinct groups and the dimensions. It was also verified that the subjects classified into the categories "professor" and "coordinator" have different views concerning the already mentioned "general aspects of the disciplines" and "extra activities". / A per??cia cont??bil ?? uma op????o de atua????o profissional para os futuros contadores. A resolu????o CNE/CES N. 10/2004, determinou que os cursos de Ci??ncias Cont??beis devem formar profissionais aptos a interagir com o contexto atual, o que requer boas condi????es de ensino e professores qualificados nas disciplinas e conte??dos, inclusive per??cia cont??bil. Assim, o objetivo geral desta pesquisa foi identificar e analisar as condi????es de ensino de per??cia cont??bil em cursos de Ci??ncias Cont??beis na grande S??o Paulo. Foram analisadas as condi????es de ensino e obtidas as percep????es de coordenadores de cursos e professores de Per??cia Cont??bil em dois grupos de cursos: o 1??. com 7 dos 10 melhores classificados pelo ENADE de 2006, e o 2??. com 10 cursos escolhidos por acessibilidade. Foram usadas t??cnicas de pesquisa bibliogr??fica, documental, an??lise de conte??do para avalia????o dos programas de disciplina obtidos, al??m de estat??stica descritiva combinada o escalonamento multidimensional para os dados coletados com os question??rios. A an??lise dos programas revelou maiores preocupa????es e cuidados do grupo das melhores IES em rela????o a: completude do programa, varia????o nas estrat??gias de ensino, ??nfase em determinados grupos de conte??dos, e variedade nos crit??rios de avalia????o. A an??lise das percep????es dos respondentes indicou para as demais IES: maior rotatividade dos coordenadores dos cursos, e maior concord??ncia de que os conte??dos oferecidos est??o relacionados aos objetivos do curso. Os resultados obtidos com as assertivas indicaram que os sujeitos de tr??s das melhores IES e de tr??s das demais IES t??m, ao n??vel de cada uma, opini??es semelhantes quanto ??s dimens??es denominadas "aspectos gerais da disciplina" e "atividades complementares", embora n??o haja concord??ncia ao n??vel dos grupos de IES e das dimens??es. Os sujeitos das IES restantes separados nas categorias "professor" e "coordenador" revelaram possuir opini??es distintas em rela????o aos mesmos "aspectos gerais da disciplina" e "atividades complementares".

Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-03T18:35:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Claudio_Toscano_de_Araujo.pdf: 1146316 bytes, checksum: c3c222de69ceb3bb9f4d0fbedf38e415 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-08-31 / The Comptrollership is a subject of the most interesting, is by aspects that cause divisions of opinions as for existing career opportunities in the area. However, both to position itself as to apply for vacancies, it is necessary that the professional has a training that empower. Most courses of accounting Sciences in Brazil and particularly in the greater of the S??o Paulo are offered during night and frequented by students who came from the public school with serious educational deficiencies, working during the day and are faced with several difficulties. The problem investigated in this study concerns the conditions of education of the discipline Comptrollership in Accounting Sciences courses of IES of the metropolitan region of the S??o Paulo, where there are significant differences between these conditions in the courses well evaluated by MEC in relation to the other and what is the perception of teachers and coordinators responsible for such courses with respect to the subject. The work was based on field research conducted with teachers and coordinators of 21 IES divided into 2 groups, being the Group 01 composed 14 IES with the concept of minimum grids 3 and 7 with IES group 02 with concept less than 3. There was also the documentary research grounded in teaching plans of discipline in multiple IES search object. The aspects evaluated as differences of group IES were 01: indication of other sources besides books, teacher is professional experience in the area of the Comptrollership, discussion of the contents of the Comptrollership with other teachers of the course and identification by the students of the integration of the contents of other subjects of the course with Comptrollership. Documentary research pointed as key differentiators of group IES 01: greater diversity and detailing of contents covered; indication of a greater number of bibliographic references that include foreign authors, less transparency as to the final/end evaluation on discipline and greater variation in teaching strategies used. / Controladoria ?? um assunto dos mais interessantes, seja pelos aspectos que causam divis??es de opini??es como pelas oportunidades profissionais existentes na ??rea. Todavia, tanto para posicionar-se como para candidatar-se ??s vagas existentes, ?? necess??rio que o profissional tenha uma forma????o que o capacite. A maioria dos cursos de Ci??ncias Cont??beis no Brasil e em particular na Grande S??o Paulo s??o oferecidos no per??odo noturno e freq??entados por alunos que vieram da escola p??blica com s??rias defici??ncias educacionais, que trabalham durante o dia e se defrontam com diversas dificuldades. O problema investigado neste estudo diz respeito ??s condi????es de ensino da disciplina Controladoria em cursos de Ci??ncias Cont??beis das IES da regi??o metropolitana de S??o Paulo, se h?? diferen??a significativa entre essas condi????es nos cursos bem avaliados pelo MEC em rela????o aos demais e qual ?? a percep????o de professores e coordenadores respons??veis por tais cursos com rela????o ao assunto. O trabalho foi elaborado com base em pesquisa de campo realizada com professores e coordenadores de 21 IES divididas em 2 grupos, sendo o grupo 01 composto por 14 IES com conceito de ENADE m??nimo de 3 e o grupo 02 com 7 IES com conceito menor que 3. Houve tamb??m pesquisa documental fundamentada nos planos de ensino da disciplina nas v??rias IES objeto da pesquisa. Os aspectos avaliados como diferencias das IES do grupo 01 foram: indica????o de outras fontes bibliogr??ficas al??m de livros; experi??ncia profissional do docente na ??rea de Controladoria; discuss??o dos conte??dos de Controladoria com outros professores do curso e identifica????o por parte dos alunos da integra????o dos conte??dos de outras disciplinas do curso com Controladoria. A pesquisa documental apontou como principais diferenciais das IES do grupo 01: maior diversidade e detalhamento dos conte??dos abordados; indica????o de um maior n??mero de refer??ncias bibliogr??ficas que incluem autores estrangeiros; menor transpar??ncia quanto ?? avalia????o final na disciplina e maior varia????o nas estrat??gias de ensino utilizadas.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-04T11:45:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ivelise_de_Maria_Mena_Barreto_Moreira.pdf: 850162 bytes, checksum: 023b8d8220ded1c3a5c9d8dc5042c551 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004-10-26 / This research aims at identifying the reasons for the main difficulties faced by the novice students at UFMA's Accounting Course in the subjects Basic and Intermediate Accounting when they start the course. It also aims at identifying the teaching techniques that may contribute to the improvement of these subjects. To reach the proposed aims, field research methodologies were adopted, such as: literature review and questionnaires to novice students of the course as well as Accounting Professors. The data collected allowed us to make a comparison of the situation of UFMA's Accounting Courses in the cities of S??o Luis and Imperatriz. The findings show that a great part of the students are single males, with age varying from 18 to 25. They also show that most professors use the lecture technique and blackboard, and want a change in the curriculum of the course. Both professors and students think the course's teaching conditions are inadequate, what contributes to their lack of motivation. It was concluded that development courses in the Didactics and Teaching Methodology should be offered to the Academic Staff of UFMA by its Business Administration and Accounting Department, what may contribute to improve the teaching of the Basic and Intermediate Accounting subjects. / Este trabalho tem por objetivo conhecer as principais causas que contribuem para as dificuldades encontradas pelos alunos iniciantes no curso de Ci??ncias Cont??beis da UFMA nas disciplinas de Contabilidade B??sica e Intermedi??ria, ao ingressarem no curso, e identificar as t??cnicas de ensino que possam contribuir para o aprimoramento dessas disciplinas. Na tentativa de atingir o objetivo proposto no presente trabalho, optou-se por adotar metodologias de pesquisa de campo tais como: pesquisa bibliogr??fica e aplica????o de question??rio aos alunos iniciantes no curso e aos professores de Contabilidade. Os dados coletados permitiram uma compara????o entre a situa????o dos cursos de Ci??ncias Cont??beis da UFMA, sediados em S??o Luis e Imperatriz. Os resultados mostram que uma grande parte dos alunos s??o do sexo masculino, solteiros, e, na faixa et??ria de 18 a 25 anos. Observa-se tamb??m que, a maioria dos docentes pesquisados utiliza a t??cnica da aula expositiva por meio do quadro-de-giz, e, ?? favor??vel ?? mudan??a da grade curricular. Na opini??o, tanto dos docentes como dos discentes as condi????es de ensino do curso s??o inadequadas, o que contribui para a falta de motiva????o destes, Ao final deste estudo conclui-se que dever??o ser promovidos por parte do Departamento de Ci??ncias Cont??beis e Administra????o da UFMA, cursos de aperfei??oamento aos docentes principalmente na ??rea de Did??tica e Metodologia de Ensino, o que poder?? contribuir para o aprimoramento do ensino das disciplinas objeto desse estudo.