The evolution of the information society that started at the end of the 20th century has recently declared the beginning of the fourth industrial revolution and is causing many changes in our society. Business management is also required to innovate b...
The evolution of the information society that started at the end of the 20th century has recently declared the beginning of the fourth industrial revolution and is causing many changes in our society. Business management is also required to innovate based on information technology in line with the changes of the times, and many changes are taking place in business processing methods and decision-making methods. Now, corporate accounting goes beyond simple computerization, and ERP and cloud computing are being promoted. Therefore, the educational method of accounting in universities is also changing based on information technology.
Computerized accounting uses computer hardware and software-based information technology to record corporate accounting information as well as to produce financial information useful for decision-making by internal and external users of the company. In particular, in a business environment where competition between companies transcends industries and borders, financial information for quick decision-making is required in real time, so the need for computerized accounting is increasingly emerging. Therefore, many scholars have emphasized the importance of the education on computerized accounting in universities and many studies have been conducted.
Until now, most of the research on computerized accounting education was based on the education and training transfer model. Many researchers have studied the effects of perceived usefulness in computerized accounting education, learners' self-efficacy and learning motivation, learner satisfaction, and learning immersion on academic performance.
Self-regulated learning ability can be defined as the ability of learners to plan, implement, and evaluate their own learning process. The concept of self-regulated learning ability is treated as an important factor affecting academic achievement in the field of pedagogy and consists of cognitive control, motivational control and behavioral control as sub-factors. Studies on self-regulated learning strategies have been conducted mainly on elementary, middle, and high school students, but relatively few studies on college students have been conducted. In addition, research on self-regulated learning ability and academic achievement has been conducted in engineering, nursing, and language arts, as well as in the field of pedagogy.
In this study, we consider the effect of self-regulated learning strategies in computerized accounting education. To this end, we develop a research model and establish research hypotheses to investigate the effect of self-regulated learning strategies on learning flow, learner satisfaction and academic performance in computerized accounting education. We also consider hypotheses to investigate the mediating effect of learner satisfaction and learning flow in the influence relationship between the self-regulated learning ability and learning performance in computerized accounting education. In particular, in this study, we conduct the empirical analysis in order to verify the research hypotheses for students who completed computerized accounting courses at Chinese universities. To this end, we conduct survey Chinese university students who have taken computerized accounting courses, and conduct a regression analysis to test the research hypotheses.
We summarize the results of the verification of the research hypotheses as follows. First, it was found that self-regulated learning ability in computerized accounting education had a positive effect on academic performance. In addition, although cognitive control, motivational control, and behavioral control, which are sub-factors of self-regulated learning ability, all had a significant effect on academic performance, it was found that motivational control had a higher influence than cognitive control and behavioral control. Second, in computerized accounting education, self-regulated learning ability was found to have a positive effect on learner satisfaction and learning immersion. In addition, all of cognitive control, motivational control and behavioral control, which are sub-factors, were found to have a significant effect on learner satisfaction and learning immersion, but cognitive control and behavioral control were found to have a higher influence than motivational control. Third, it was found that learner satisfaction and learning immersion positively affect academic performance in computerized accounting education, which is consistent with previous studies. Fourth, in the relationship between self-regulated learning ability and academic performance, learning satisfaction was found to play a partial mediating role, but there was no mediating effect of learning immersion.