Awareness and perception of accounting students towards industrial revolution 4.0
Industrial Revolution (IR) 4.0 is currently at the world’s focus of attention. Initially, the IR 4.0 took placed in manufacturing industry. As time passed by, the implementation of IR 4.0 was spread widely among various types of industry including education. Thus, it is important for students to acq...
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my.uum.repo.260622019-05-21T01:01:02Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/26062/ Awareness and perception of accounting students towards industrial revolution 4.0 Omar, Siti Aisyah Hasbolah, Farhana HF5601 Accounting Industrial Revolution (IR) 4.0 is currently at the world’s focus of attention. Initially, the IR 4.0 took placed in manufacturing industry. As time passed by, the implementation of IR 4.0 was spread widely among various types of industry including education. Thus, it is important for students to acquire knowledge on this matter as they will be heavily affected from this day onwards. The purpose of this paper is to examine the awareness on IR 4.0 among accounting students, and the focus is on undergraduate accounting students at Universiti Selangor (UNISEL). The questionnaire, which are categorised into awareness, perception and behaviour category, was distributed, and the data collected were analysed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). Findings show that majority of the students are aware and have heard about IR 4.0 but they lack of detail knowledge on the matter. Almost all of them have neutral opinion or unable to form concrete perception regarding various aspects of IR 4.0 and this is evidenced from the result of consistent number of mean for all variables of perception tested in the questionnaire. In terms of behaviour towards IR 4.0, the result shows that most of the students lack of exposure about IR 4.0 but they are keen to know more about it especially during their study period. Finally, recommendations to increase awareness and change the perception about IR 4.0 among students are made. 2018 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/26062/1/ICAS%202018%209%2015.pdf Omar, Siti Aisyah and Hasbolah, Farhana (2018) Awareness and perception of accounting students towards industrial revolution 4.0. In: 5th International Conference on Accounting Studies (ICAS 2018), 16-17 October 2018, Penang, Malaysia. http://icas.my/index.php/proceedings/8-icas-2018-proceedings |
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Industrial Revolution (IR) 4.0 is currently at the world’s focus of attention. Initially, the IR 4.0 took placed in manufacturing industry. As time passed by, the implementation of IR 4.0 was spread widely among various types of industry including education. Thus, it is important for students to acquire knowledge on this matter as they will be heavily affected from this day onwards. The purpose of this paper is to examine the awareness on IR 4.0 among accounting students, and the focus is on undergraduate accounting students at Universiti Selangor (UNISEL). The questionnaire, which are categorised into awareness, perception and behaviour category, was distributed, and the data collected were analysed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). Findings show that majority of the students are aware and have heard about IR 4.0 but they lack of detail knowledge on the matter. Almost all of them have neutral opinion or unable to form concrete perception regarding various aspects of IR 4.0 and this is evidenced from the result of consistent number of mean for all variables of perception tested in the questionnaire. In terms of behaviour towards IR 4.0, the result shows that most of the students lack of exposure about IR 4.0 but they are keen to know more about it especially during their study period. Finally, recommendations to increase awareness and change the perception about IR 4.0 among students are made. |
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