Adoption of Technology for Creating Household Accounts through the Application of Farmers in Phetchaburi Province

Abstract

          The purposes of this research were 1) to study the current situation of household accounting in daily life. 2) to measure the level of readiness of applying household accounting applications, and 3) to study the level of technology acceptance in using applications. The samples were farmers in Phetchaburi Province from eleven community enterprises totaling thirty-three cases by purposive sampling. The data were analyzed by content analysis using means, standard deviation and t-test for dependent samples.

          The results showed that 1) in the current situation, most farmers have knowledge and understanding of household accounting at the comprehensible level: they also have the purpose of preparing a household account to learn how to plan to spend money, they rarely or hardly prepare household accounts, 2) the level of readiness for application in household accounting was tested by t-test by the samples which not independent: it also found that the means of pretest and posttest at 7.939 and 15.909 respectively and the means of difference (d) at -7.969. Overall the developmental score of achievement from the training increased by an average of 65.38 percent. And 3) farmers have a high level of acceptance of technology used in household accounting. Considering all aspects were at high levels: perceived benefits (M=4.39, S.D.=0.548), social influences (M=4.30, S.D.=0.529), attitudes toward using technology (M= 4.28, S.D.=0.530), intended use (M=4.27, S.D.=0.542)