Demand for Development in Accounting Knowledge for Administrative’s Financial Officers at Nonthaburi Sub-district

Abstract

The aim of this research was to study the demand in accounting knowledge development of the administrative financial officers from sub-district administrative office in Nonthaburi province. The purposive sampling was used in the study. There were 93 financial officers obtained from the sampling. Self-administrated questionnaires were used to collect the data. The questionnaire included both open-ended and close-ended questions. The reliabilities of the questionnaires was 0.99. The descriptive statistics such as percentage, means and standard deviation were calculated in order to explain the research findings. It found that most of the participants were female at the age of 25-34 years old holding bachelor degree in Accounting. They were head of Financial Officer position with over 12 years experience in the large sub-district administrative office. However, they have never developed their accounting knowledge. In addition, the research found that the financial officers highly demanded to develop their knowledge in financial reporting, accounting recording, registration, and accounting software. They suggested that training and seminar should be organized for the financial knowledge development. They would prefer to have the training for 5 days during working days. They also considered the training and seminar budget as the knowledge development limitation.