Model to Evaluate Attrition/Retention Decisions by Accountancy Diploma Students: Case Study Evidence from Sudan

Diaeldin Osman, Conor O'Leary and Mark Brimble

Business Education and Accreditation, 2014, vol. 6, issue 2, 71-88

Abstract: Research to date which has analyzed attrition at universities and community colleges has tended to focus on clusters of factors which may or may not impact attrition. This paper extends the current literature and develops a model to evaluate attrition. Three core groups of factors which impact attrition are developed into a model. These are external factors, internal faculty factors, and demographic factors. The model was then tested on accounting students and the departmental head of a public institution offering accounting diploma programs in Sudan. The model identified many impacting factors from the three core groups. Satisfactory explanations were also available as to why other factors were not found significant, in this particular testing environment.

Keywords: Attrition; Accountancy Diploma Students; Attrition Model; Sudan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I29 M10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.theibfr2.com/RePEc/ibf/beaccr/bea-v6n2-2014/BEA-V6N2-2014-7.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ibf:beaccr:v:6:y:2014:i:2:p:71-88

Access Statistics for this article

Business Education and Accreditation is currently edited by Terrance Jalbert

More articles in Business Education and Accreditation from The Institute for Business and Finance Research
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Mercedes Jalbert ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).