III.

Research and Evidences

The type of research method adopted in this study was a survey design. A random
sample of 180 students received the questionnaire. Of these, 146 were returned, 34 of
which were invalid for analysis because of respondent error, as they were unwilling to
participate in the research project. Of the 112 valid responses, 44 were female and 68
were male, and 65 were accounting majors and 47 were non-accounting majors.

Charts and figures

Figure 1. Sample and gender form for both accounting and non-accounting

Accounting Non-Accounting Total

Gender

Male 48 (73.8%) 20 (42.6%) 68 (60.7%)

Female 17 (26.2%) 27 (57.4%) 44 (39.3%)

Total 65 (100.0%) 47 (100.0%) 112 (100.0%)

Figure 2. Presents a summary of responses to the 15 items listed on the questionnaire

and to the open-ended question for both accounting and non-accounting majors. In this
analysis, we combined agreed responses of both accounting and non-accounting
majors.

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Items Accounting Non-Accounting Total

1-Lack of teaching assistants

90.8 85.1 88.4

2- Computerized practice set is not used.

80 78.7 79.5

3- Traditional pedagogical Techniques

81.6 74.5 78.6

4- Limited Office hours

80 20 38.3 27.7

5- Complexity of accounting teaching

63 63.8 63.4

6- A non-objective evaluation

50.8 66 57.1

7- Collection the homework without an evaluation

47.7 46.8 47.3

8- Difficult exams

73.9 70.2 72.3

9- Few Homework

70.7 70.2 70.5

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10- Few quizzes

69.2 57.4 64.3

11- Some questions are not covered in a semester

56.9 55.3 56.2

12- A lot of multiple choices questions

50.8 53.2 51.7

13- Quizzes have an insignificant reward

29.2 46.8 36.6

14- Lack of English language proficiency

80 97.9 87.5

15- Students motivation to learn is not supported by instructors learning style

17 83 83

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Conclusion

It is always so hard to give the exact number who have majored in accounting,
demography is very wide and large. Succeeding in any field of study requires the use of
solid strategy and accounting is no exception. Struggles in taking up an accounting
profession cannot be eliminated because it is always in nature. No one can suggest
ways to eliminate those struggles but ways to help us face those struggles. Those
struggles doesnt only incudes failed understanding on the subject but also those
economic problems that most students not only accounting students are facing. As a
student, learn to manage your time and money and spend it to useful things. If you want
to take up an accounting course, you need to really love the subject. It requires affection
and time just like most relationship does. You will face many failures, depressions and
frustrations when you take up this course and you cant avoid yourself from that
because you need to experience all of these to understand the profession you are
taking. Accounting course requires hard work and many sacrifices from your social life
as a college student. You will spend money to buy references and books just like you
are spending for your future. You will also spend a lot of time to study and to understand
your lessons more. This research, coping up the struggles of an accountancy student is
showing us that this course is not easy. You cannot avoid yourself from any struggles
thus, you need to face and experience all of it to become a successful CPA or
professional someday because reality outside our school is more of that.

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Recommendation

After a thorough analysis of data and research, the following recommendations are
hereby made:

The researchers recommend this research papers for those students who are
planning to take an accounting course and not yet completely understand this
course.
To those future researchers who will conduct their own study about this matter
and hoping that this research can help them.
To professors, instructors or professionals who will need a research paper about
coping the struggles of an accountancy student that was conducted also by
accountancy students.
To our fellow schoolmates and classmates who want to know what are the
different struggles that an accounting student are facing.

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Definition of terms

Accountancy- is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial

information about economic entities such as businesses and corporations.
Accounting- accounting, which has been called the "language of business
measures the results of an organization's economic activities and conveys this
information to a variety of users, including investors, creditors, management, and
regulators.
Affection- attraction, infatuation, or fondness is a "disposition or state of mind or
body".
Analyzed- to study closely and carefully.
Benefit- something that promotes or enhances well-being.
Communication- the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by
speech, signals, writing, or behavior.
Complexity- the quality or condition of being complex.
Concentration- the act or process of concentrating, especially the fixing of close,
undivided attention.
Conclude- to bring to an end; close.
Conducted- to direct the course of; manage or control.
Coping- to contend or strive, especially on even terms or with success.
Curriculum- all the courses of study offered by an educational institution.
Data- facts that can be analyzed or used in an effort to gain knowledge or make
decisions.
Demand- to ask for urgently or peremptorily.
Demography- the study of the characteristics of human populations, such as
size, growth, density, distribution, and vital statistics.
Difficulty- the condition or quality of being difficult.
Disqualification- the act of disqualifying or the condition of having been
disqualified.
Effective- having an intended or expected effect.
Emotional- readily affected with or stirred by emotion.

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 Ethics- a set of principles of right conduct.
Excessive- exceeding a normal, usual, reasonable or proper limit.
Experience- the apprehension of an object, thought, or emotion through the
senses or mind.
Financial- of or relating to persons who manage money, capital, or credit.
Hypothesis- a tentative explanation for an observation, phenomenon, or scientific
problem that can be tested by further investigation.
Indicated- to state or express briefly.
Lack- deficiency or absence.
Lectures- an exposition of a given subject delivered before an audience or class,
as for the purpose of instruction.
Limitations- factors over which a researcher has no control, and which may affect
results of a study.
Literature- colloquial usage indicating any printed matter on a given topic.
Management- the process of controlling how something is done or used.
Motivation- in psychology, the aggregate of all the individual motives, needs, and
drives operative in a person at any given moment that influence the will and
cause a given behavior.
Networking- the practice of expanding ones base of contacts in the workplace or
in personal affairs, typically with the aim of furthering ones social and/or
occupational success.
Overcome- to defeat (another) in competition or conflict.
Overloaded- an excessive load.
Pressure- an influence acting as a source of distress or hardship.
Profession- an occupation or career.
Professors- one who belongs to the faculty.
Recommend- to advise or counsel.
Reference- meaning or denotation.
Research- to study (something) thoroughly so as to present in a detailed,
accurate manner.

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 Researchers- careful study of a given subject, field, or problem, undertaken to
discover facts or principles.
Resources- something that is available for use or that can be used for support or
help.
Skills- proficiency, facility, or dexterity that is acquired or developed through
training or experience.
Social- of or relating to human society and its modes of organization.
Strategy- a plan of action resulting from strategy or intended to accomplish a
specific goal.
Struggles- to have difficulty or make a strenuous effort doing something.
Successful- having achieved wealth or eminence.
System- a group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements forming
a complex whole.
Techniques- non-prescriptive ways or methods used to perform missions,
functions, or tasks.
Technology- the application of science, especially to industrial or commercial
objectives.
Thorough- exhaustively complete.

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#780 Tandang Sora Avenue, Old Balara , Quezon City
Mobile: +09430044093
Email: aldrinzalameda2@gmail.com

ALDRIN RABANG ZALAMEDA

OBJECTIVES

To become successful someday in my career and life.

To help my family.
To improve my skills and knowledge.

PERSONAL DATA

Date of Birth: May 20, 1997

Place of Birth: Quezon City
Civil Status: Single
Citizenship: Filipino
Religion: Born Again
Height: 5 feet 7 inch
Weight: 68 kls.
Fathers name: Rizalito O. Zalameda
Mothers name: Nympha R. Zalameda

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Primary Old Balara Elementary School

Tandang Sora Avenue, Quezon City
2004-2010

Secondary Old Balara Christian Community School

Tandang Sora Avenue, Quezon City
2010-2014

Tertiary ICCT Colleges

Cainta, Rizal
Bachelor of Science in Accountancy
(4th year student)

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109 G. Ceratica Street, Tatala Binangonan Rizal 1940
Mobile: 09059034995
Email: Shayneel.alcantara@gmail.com

SHAYNE E.J GANANCIAL ALCANTARA

OBJECTIVES

To become successful someday in my career and life.

To help my family.
To improve my skills and knowledge.

PERSONAL DATA

Date of Birth: June 15, 1997

Place of Birth: Binangonan Rizal
Civil Status: Single
Citizenship: Filipino
Religion: Roman Catholic
Height: 5 feet 1 inch
Weight: 45 kls.
Fathers name: Jimmy Alcantara
Mothers name: Emilia Alcantara

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Primary Tatala Elementary School

Tatala Binangonan Rizal 1940
2004-2010

Secondary Mahabang Parang National High School

Mahabang Parang Binangonan, Rizal 1940
2010-2014

Tertiary ICCT Colleges

Cainta, Rizal
Bachelor of Science in Accountancy
(4th year student)

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Blk12 Lot 48 Stop.Nio Bilibiran, Binangonan, Rizal
Mobile: 09067222499
Email: genevivemahinay@yahoo.com

GENEVIVE URBI MAHINAY

OBJECTIVES

To become successful someday in my career and life.

To help my family.
To improve my skills and knowledge.

PERSONAL DATA

Date of Birth: January 03, 1998

Place of Birth: Binangonan Rizal
Civil Status: Single
Citizenship: Filipino
Religion: Roman Catholic
Height: 5 feet 4 inch
Weight: 43 kls.
Fathers name: Gorgeto C Mahinay
Mothers name: Norma U. Mahinay

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Primary Bilibiran Elementary School

Bilibiran Binangonan Rizal
2004-2010

Secondary Guronasyon Foundation Inc. National High School

Bilibiran Binangonan, Rizal
2010-2014

Tertiary ICCT Colleges

Cainta, Rizal
Bachelor of Science in Accountancy
(4th year student)

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#95 I, Mendiola St. Siniloan, Laguna
Mobile: 09051337581
Email: jeanzeladria@ymail.com

JEANZEL LAYLAY ADRIAS

OBJECTIVES

To become successful someday in my career and life.

To help my family.
To improve my skills and knowledge.

PERSONAL DATA

Date of Birth February 04, 1998

Place of Birth Siniloan, Laguna
Civil Status Single
Citizenship Filipino
Religion Roman Catholic
Height 5 feet
Weight 52 kls.
Fathers name Herminigildo G. Adrias
Mothers name Myrna L. Adrias

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Primary San Lorenzo Montesori Center

Siniloan, Laguna
2004-2010

Secondary Liceo de Pakil

Pakil, Laguna
2010-2014

Tertiary ICCT Colleges

Cainta, Rizal
Bachelor of Science in Accountancy
(2014 Present)

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#211 Apitong Street Marikina Heights, Marikina City
Mobile:09107449432
Email: Honeylynmatibag@yahoo.com

HONEYLYN PATROPEZ MATIBAG

OBJECTIVES

To become successful someday in my career and life.

To help my family.
To improve my skills and knowledge.

PERSONAL DATA

Date of Birth: September 04, 1997

Place of Birth: Marikina City
Civil Status: Single
Citizenship: Filipino
Religion: Roman Catholic
Height: 5 feet 2 inch
Weight: 40 kls.
Fathers name: Rolando C Matibag
Mothers name: Jocalyn P. Matibag

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Primary Kapitan Moy Elementary School

Brgy. Marikina Heights, Marikina City
2002-2009

Secondary Marikina Heights High School

Brgy. Marikina Heights, Marikina City
2009-2013

Tertiary ICCT Colleges

Cainta, Rizal
Bachelor of Science in Accountancy
(4th year student)

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Penafrancia Cupang 3, Antipolo City
Mobile: +63946332640
Email: ricareniedo@yahoo.com

RICA JANE BATISLAON RENIEDO

OBJECTIVES

To become successful someday in my career and life.

To help my family.
To improve my skills and knowledge.

PERSONAL DATA

Date of Birth June 18, 1998

Place of Birth Ilagan Isabela
Civil Status Single
Citizenship Filipino
Religion Roman Catholic
Height 5 feet 1 inch
Weight 50 kls.
Fathers name Reynald M. Reniedo
Mothers name Carolyn B. Batislaon

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Primary Mambugan Elementary School

Brgy. Mambugan, Antipolo City
2004-2008
Cansantville Colleges
Cansantville Subd., Antipolo City
2008-2010

Secondary Cansantville Colleges

Cansantville Subd., Antipolo City
2010-2014

Tertiary ICCT Colleges

Cainta, Rizal
Bachelor of Science in Accountancy
(4th year student)

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Col.Em Cuenco Ave. Unit 7 Pagrai Hills Antipolo City
Mobile:09336504610
Email: Bryantadifa06@gmail.com

BRYAN CAA TADIFA

OBJECTIVES

To become successful someday in my career and life.

To help my family.
To improve my skills and knowledge.

PERSONAL DATA

Date of Birth: December 07, 1992

Place of Birth: Cupang, Antipolo City
Civil Status: Single
Citizenship: Filipino
Religion: Roman Catholic
Height: 5 feet 1 inch
Weight: 55 kls.
Fathers name: Bernardino J. Tadifa
Mothers name: Estrella V. Caa

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Primary Nazareth Montessori School

Antipolo City
2001-2007

Secondary Mountaintop Christian Academy

Antipolo City
2008-2012

Tertiary ICCT Colleges

Cainta, Rizal
Bachelor of Science in Accountancy
(2014 Present)

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