Some determinants of students performance on advanced financial accounting 1 (FAC 400) at faculty of accountancy Universiti Teknologi MARA Shah Alam / Wan Shafizah Hussain

This study presents findings on the effects of gender ,CGPA ,all previous financial accounting papers and previous english paper on performance of Advanced Financial Accounting 1 (coded as FAC 400). The findings indicate that CGPA and only Financial Accounting 4 (coded as FAC 250) significantly affect the performance of FAC 400. The other variables were not significantly affecting the performance on FAC 400. In order to arrive at the findings, the correlation of coefficient, multiple regression analysis and chisquared test have been used. The subject of the study were 180 students of Shah Alam campus who are currently in semester two of their Bachelor of Accountancy .The paper concludes with principal limitation and future research direction.