Exogenous and endogenous factors influencing students' performance in undergraduate accounting modules

Accounting Education

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 51-73

  Guney, Yilmaz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exogenous factors; Factor analysis; Non specialist; Performance; Undergraduate accounting

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959578580     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639280701740142     Document Type: Article

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