DETERMINATION OF FACTORS AFFECTING THE STUDENT SUCCESS IN ACCOUNTING COURSES: AN IMPLEMANTATION AT YALOVA UNIVERSITY (MUHASEBE DERSİ ALAN ÖĞRENCİLERİN BAŞARISINA ETKİ EDEN FAKTÖRLERİN TESPİTİ: YALOVA ÜNİVERSİTESİ’NDE BİR UYGULAMA)

Accounting education is critically important for the development of future accounting academics and accouting professionals. Increasing need for qualified personnel, highering demand for accounting academics by universities, transition stage to international accounting standards and inetrnational financial reporting standards, climbing significance of ethics as a result of economic crises and corporate scandals have positioned accounting education to a unique point today. This research was run on 156 Yalova University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Management, Economics, Labor Economics and Industrial Relations department students and data were collected via the questionnaire methodology. 5 point Likert scale was used to design the related questionnaire. Research results and findings indicate that, it is not certain commercial high school alumni are more successful in accounting courses at undergraduate level. Also, most students believe that accounting occupation will guarantee and secure their future. Good working conditions and physical university infrastruture, positive roles and behaviors of academics, integrating practice to theory during lectures, regular attendance of faculty member to courses are determined to positively affect the student success in accounting courses. However, faculty member being unaware of efficient learning methods, implementing an unfair grading system, teaching monotonous and nervous, students not learning the logic of accounting and unclear exam questions of faculty members are detected to lower the student success in accounting courses.