Pengaruh Kecerdasan Emosional dan Minat Belajar Terhadap Pemahaman Akuntansi Pada Mahasiswa Program Studi Akuntansi di Universitas Medan Area

Abstract

This study aims to find out how much the impact of emotional intelligence and interest in learning on accounting understanding of Medan Area University students from 2015 to 2019. The population of this study amounted to 631 morning and evening accounting students whose secondary data sources came from Medan Area University academic staff. The samples in this study were 88 students who were deliberately selected based on criteria set by the researchers. Then they were processed using multiple linear regression and measured using a Likert scale for their own revolutionary. The results of this study show that Emotional Intelligence and Interest in Learning significantly influence Accounting Understanding, both partially and simultaneously. this is evidenced from the partial significance value for emotional intelligence itself 0.015 and for learning interest 0.000 where both of these numbers are smaller than 0.05. Simultaneously emotional intelligence and interest in learning have a significant effect on the understanding of student accounting proven by a significance value of 0,000 which is also smaller than 0.05.