Perceived Detrimental Factors Affecting Undergraduate Accounting Students’ Academic Performance

Abstract

Though good academic performance is a common expectation from the students, guardians, and educational administrations, many students may not achieve good academic results. Several detrimental factors act as barriers to students’ good academic performance. Therefore, it is the concern of educational institutions to detect the detrimental factors and find out effective solutions. This study explores the undergraduate accounting students’ perceptions of the detrimental factors that negatively affect the academic performance of the students at Moulvibazar Government Women's College (MGWC), Bangladesh. A total of 45 students from undergraduate accounting 1st year through 3 rd year participated in the questionnaire survey of this study and expressed opinions regarding the detrimental factors to their academic performance. The study found that several student factors (e.g., frequent absenteeism, lack of motivation, disliking to course), family factors (e.g., parental academic background, family economic status), college factors (e.g., over enrolment, inadequate campus accommodation, poor sanitation, poor library facilities) and teacher factors (e.g., lack of teachers, lack of seriousness among teachers) significantly affects students’ academic performance. This study recommends that the college authority should pay more attention to ensuring sufficient college facilities and the government should provide more funds for increasing students’ accommodation facilities, transportation facilities, building the required infrastructure, and recruiting sufficient teachers for the department of accounting at MGWC. Keywords: Detrimental Factors, Academic Performance, Undergraduate, Accounting Students. DOI: 10.7176/JEP/13-11-09 Publication date: April 30 th 2022