INFLUENCE OF PARENTAL PROFESSION ON STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCEIN FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING IN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT COLLEGES

(A CASE STUDY OF NORTH CENTRAL GEO-POLITICAL ZONE NIGERIA)

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ABSTRACT
This study was conducted to investigate the influence of parental profession on students? academic performance in Financial Accounting in Federal Government Colleges in North-Central Geo-political zone, Nigeria. The study was necessitated by the continuous decline in students? performance in Financial Accounting in Federal Government Colleges in North Central Geo-political zone, Nigeria. The study has five objectives, five research questions and five null hypotheses. Four hundred and seven (407) students from the six Federal Government Colleges in the North-Central geo-political zone, Nigeria, were used for the study. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while regression analysis was used to test hypothesis one, the t-test was used to test hypothesis two to four while hypothesis five was tested by using F-test at 0.05 level of significance. The entire five null hypotheses were retained. The study revealed among others that: Based on the findings, the study concluded that parental profession has no effect on students? academic performance; which means that a child could excel in life irrespective of the type of profession his or her parents are engaged so long as they can set achievable goal in life. In other words, children could set achievable goals in life. In view of this, the study therefore recommends that, society should not rank people based on their profession no matter the type of profession they engaged in