RESEARCH TITLE:

ACADEMIC DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED BY

SECOND YEAR ACCOUNTANCY STUDENTS

IN GENERAL DE JESUS COLLEGE

SCHOOOL YEAR 2023

RESEARCHERS:

Elise Angeles

Darren Bautista

John Lloyd Capinpin

Mariel Horlina

Jonalyn Velasco

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 CHAPTER I

The Problem and Its Settings

Introduction

The 2nd year accounting students are mainly experiencing

difficulties in their academic performance, pressured on how they

will meet the standard of their professor, worried about their

grades. We are aware that being a student of accounting is no

joke, many claim that it is quite challenging and that there are

moments when they are unable to continue. Critical skills are

necessary, for accounting is essential to success in the field

hence it is taught everywhere. This study gives answer to

student's and teacher's and adds to the literate by evaluating

accounting student's understanding issues and their causes. Thus,

this study explains why being accounting student is difficult.

Accounting student lack understanding, application, and lecturer

the course's numerical weighting, focus on memory, lack of

interest in the content and gap between theory and practice and

limited resource books further hinder students' understanding of

course material. Accounting is difficult since it is applied and

requires a deep comprehension of concepts. Student satisfaction

with teaching methods and the learning process is crucial for the

sustainability of higher education.

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Anywhere in the world, accounting is highly regarded as one of

the most challenging subjects in business programs. This is

usually associated with low passing and high failure rates. There

are study habits that contribute to the failure in accounting.

Conceptual Framework

Peer pressure

Major Subjects Lack of time

Peer pressure

Peer pressure force exerts by people that is influenced by ones

values and behaviors either positively or negatively and always

associated with adolescents. Peer pressure is the ability of

people from same social class or age to influence another of same

age or class. Peer pressure is equally the influences peers have

on each other.

Major subjects

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This paper examines the factors affecting students’ career choice

of accounting. It has been discovered that the factors affecting

students’ career choice of accounting are numerous but

they can be group into personal, reference and job factors. The

personal and job factors such as students’ interest and

motivation in the subject, job prospects and high pay,

performance in secondary school are the most influencing factors

of students’ choice of accounting. The paper recommends the need

for enlightenment and counseling of the students and their wards

about career choice in accounting.

Lack of time management

A college environment's freedom and flexibility can derail

students who haven't mastered time-management skills. Having left

high school's rigidly structured schedules behind, students often

struggle to balance academic, personal and work commitments after

arriving on campus. Faced with so many competing demands on their

time, many students simply give up and let the situation take its

course. Without intervention from a professor or parent, a

student is unlikely to succeed.

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Research Paradigm

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Statement of the Problem

This study seeks to find out the academic difficulties

encountered by second year accountancy students in General de

Jesus College in the school year 2022-2023.

1.How may the profile of the Accountancy students be described of

in terms of

1.1 sex

2.What are the potential difficulties that accountancy students

encountered in their academic performance?

2.1 peer pressure;

2.2 major subjects;

2.3 lack of time management?

3.What are the things that motivate second year GJC Accountancy

students in terms of

relatives and Friends;

spectation;

better job opportunities?

4.What are the possible solutions to their academic problems?

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Significance of the Study

The study aims to identify the difficulties encountered by

second year accountancy students and its possible solutions.

The study will be beneficial to the following:

For students, the study provides a better understanding of the

common difficulties faced by second year accountancy students,

such as comprehension of accounting principles, application of

concepts, and time management. By knowing the common

difficulties, they can prepare themselves better to overcome them

and be successful in their studies.

For teachers, the study highlights the areas where students may

struggle the most and suggests possible solutions to help

students overcome these difficulties. This information can help

teachers improve their teaching methodologies and provide more

targeted support to their students.

For schools, the study provides valuable insights into the

challenges faced by second year accountancy students and can

inform curriculum development and course design to better support

students' learning and academic success.

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For researchers, the study contributes to the existing literature

on difficulties encountered by accountancy students, particularly

in the second year of their studies. It also provides a platform

for future research to explore these difficulties in more depth

and to investigate other factors that may influence students'

academic performance.

For future researchers, the study offers a starting point for

exploring the difficulties encountered by accountancy students

and possible solutions. Future research can build on the findings

of this study to examine other related areas, such as the impact

of socio-economic and demographic factors on students'

performance.

Scope and Delimitation

The focus of this study is to know the difficulties

encountered by second year accountancy students and its possible

solution in General De Jesus College.

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 This study will mainly identify and assess different

difficulties of second year accountancy students. Also, this

study aims to identify how the researchers can inform and develop

second year accountancy students dealing with the difficulties

they are currently facing.

The study was conducted in San Isidro, General De Jesus

Collage. The study will be conducted during the second semester

of the academic year 2022-2023.

The method that the researcher use is descriptive method to

determine the difficulties encountered by the second-year

accounting student and its possible solution. That aims to

accurately and systematically describe a population, situation or

phenomenon.

Definition of Terms

Subjective standards - Based on or influenced by personal

feelings, tastes, or opinions.

Academic pressure - defined as “an experience in which a student

is burdened by the demands of time and energy to achieve specific

academic goals.

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Academic coursework - is a typical academic assignment, given in

the course of study to evaluate the student's knowledge, skills,

and identify the final grade.

Academic difficulties- a learning problem in a schoolchild who

does not acquire the necessary grade-level knowledge or cannot

successfully pursue the expected grade-level tasks and scholarly

goals.

Academic pressure is defined as “an experience in which a student

is burdened by the demands of time and energy to achieve specific

academic goals.

Perceived behavioral control - This refers to a person's

perception of the ease or difficulty of performing the behavior

of interest.

Accountancy students - covers the principles that guide the

creation and use of financial records, while accounting refers to

the process of maintaining those records.

Intellectual growth- refers to the changes that take place as a

result of growth, and experience, in thinking, reasoning,

relating, judging, conceptualizing, etc.

Intrinsic motivations- is the act of doing something without any

obvious external rewards.

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