ICARE 2015

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    Students’ perception of internship programme in accounting
    (Department of Accountancy, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Madurapperuma, M.W.; Thilakarathne, P.M.C.; Perera, H.A.P.I.
    Internship is an important part of a study program for accounting undergraduates in all universities in Sri Lanka. This research explores the students’ perception of their experience in Internship training before and after engaging the training. A questionnaire was given to 107 fourth-year accounting undergraduates in the University of Kelaniya, who had introduced internship training for its undergraduates. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics. The results show that the accounting students had moderate levels of perception on all the categories, except future career, which showed a low level of perception. This meant that they believed that internship training had not given them the confidence that they will be able to obtain the future career they want in accounting profession. Another interesting finding of the research, through a correlation analysis shows that the longer the duration of internship training, the higher the readiness and future career development among the accounting undergraduates.
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    The impact of embedding information and communication technology content in accounting courses and its effect on overall students’ performance
    (Department of Accountancy, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Thilakerathne, P.M.C.; Madurapperuma, M.W.
    This study examines the impact of embedding Computer Aided Learning (CAD) in accounting courses in one of the conventional university’s accounting courses and its effect on overall students’ performance. It differs from the previous research in that accounting undergraduates taught MYOB accounting software in their second year of four year honours degree. At the same time other ICT courses in the accounting curriculum geared towards training students to prepare financial statements using spreadsheets etc. Student performance does not alone describe the ICT content in accounting curriculum and in effect included prior accounting knowledge, English knowledge and gender as other explanatory variables. Multiple regression analysis on student performance shows that prior accounting knowledge and its performance, internship performance, English knowledge at the entry level to the accounting degree programme together with MYOB course performance of students and internship marks significantly explained the overall performance of accounting graduates.