I explore the effectiveness of a program designed to improve student effort and performance in intermediate accounting and other upper division accounting courses. At a mid-sized public university in the Western US, many students enrolled in Intermediate Accounting I (their first upper division...

We examine the effectiveness of online tutoring software to ameliorate poor performance in intermediate financial accounting. Controlling for age, major, and student aptitude, we find that the number of terms that have transpired since a student took introductory financial accounting, whether...