This study examines the personality profile of accounting students in a public university in Malaysia. Specifically, this study determines whether students’ personality influence their preferred learning method. This study follows Jung and Myer Briggs’ study that provides 16 personality types which subsequently theme up into four types of personality. The four types of personality are Extroverts versus Introverts, sensing versus Intuitive, thinking versus Feeling and Judging versus Perceiving. The focus of this study is on two types of personality namely, Extrovert versus Introvert and Sensing versus Intuitive. Using questionnaire survey on 266 students, this study found students’ personality type influence their preferred learning method. Further analysis shows that students possessing Extrovert Intuition has the most different preference learning method as compared to students with other personality type. The results also show that students’ personality type also influence their performance. Further analysis shows that students possessing Extrovert Intuition performed much better compared to the students with other personality type. The findings in this study provide further understanding to the academics, faculties and university on the type of personality of the accounting students and their preferred learning method. Such understanding provides these parties guidelines on the factors to be concentrated in improving teaching and learning in accounting education.
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