The Competency of Financial and Accounting Personnel, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok

Abstract

The objective of this research were study to (1) opinions of financial and accounting personnel of King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB) toward competency, (2) motivations affecting the competency of financial and accounting personnel of KMUTNB, (3) compare the difference of the opinions of financial and accounting personnel of KMUTNB toward competency by personal factors and (4) find relationship between motivations factors and competency of financial and accounting personnel of KMUTNB. This survey used questionnaires to collect data from 60 staff. Statistics consisting of frequency, percentages, mean, standard deviation, one-way ANOVA and Person’s Correlation were used in data analysis. Results: (1) the overall opinion of financial and accounting personnel of KMUTNB toward the competency were at high level. (2) the overall opinion of financial and accounting personnel of KMUTNB toward motivations affecting the competency overall were at high level. (3) The financial and accounting personnel of KMUTNB with different gender, age and experience on finance and accounting showed no significant difference in overall the opinions on the competency. And (4)motivation for responsibility, work itself and advancement have the same direction of relationship at medium level with competency of financial and accounting personnel of KMUTNB at significance level 0.01.