The purposes of this research were to design contents build both document-based and electronic-based teaching materials and find out the students’ satisfaction towards the use of ASEAN Economic Community related lessons for English writing courses. The sample group consisted of two 30-student sections of totally 60 third-year undergraduate students majoring in English for International Communication faculty of Liberal Arts Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon. After they had tried using the lessons did the document-based exercises answered the first questionnaire tried the electronic-based exercises and answered the second questionnaire their data were analyzed and revealed as follows. 1. The analysis of the first questionnaire revealed that the students’ average satisfaction towards the English writing content lessons was in the highly middle level with 3.15 out of 5 points or 63 per cent. 2. The analysis of the first questionnaire also revealed that the students’ average satisfaction towards the English writing document-based exercises was again in the highly middle level with 3.38 out of 5 points or 67.67 per cent. 3. The analysis of the second questionnaire revealed that the students’ average satisfaction towards the English writing electronic-based exercises was in the high level with 3.65 out of 5 points or 72.98 per cent. In comparison there was a difference of 0.27 points or 5.31 per cent between the students’ satisfaction towards the electronic-based exercises and that towards the document-based exercises implying that the students preferred the electronic-based exercises to the document-based exercises.

This research study was aimed to investigate the readiness of Thai accountants to enter the ASEAN Economic Community in Bangkok area in order prepare the accountants and students to be ready to enter the ASEAN Economic Community and to prepare educational institutions to develop curriculum or teaching methods focusing on producing skilled accountants ready to enter the ASEAN Economic Community. The sample of this research was 450 accountants in Bangkok including accountants auditors tax auditors certified public accountants and the a limited company account manager. The questionnaire was sent to the sample and the data were analyzed by percentage mean and standard deviation; and One Way ANOVAs was applied to test the hypothesis. The results of the study showed that Thai sample accountants’ readiness to enter the ASEAN Economic Community were as follows. The first readiness was concerning the accounting skills and financial statements knowledge and understanding on the Thai accounting standards and the Thai Financial Reporting Standard with the average level of 4.85. The ability to read English was in the average of 4.78 while the ability to read and write at least one of the ASEAN languages was also in the average level of 1.31. The Information Technology skills which refer to the ability to use at least two popular accounting programs obtained an average level of 4.73 while the knowledge of Thai professional law was 4.65. The average level of knowledge of accounting profession of at least 2 countries was in an average level of 3.21 and the ability to work under the environmental and cultural conditions of ASEAN countries had an average level of 3.33 in terms of Section 3 the comparison of the rules of professional accountancy

The study on the analysis of long-term relationship among stock markets from ASEAN trading linkage: After Integration was aimed to investigate its long-term relationships as well as the short-term adjustability to establish balance among the stock markets in Thailand Malaysia and Singapore after the ASEAN unification. The research data were compiled daily from the stock markets in the three countries from 16 October 2012 until 30 December 2014. The analysis was to obtain long-term cointegration using Johansen and short-term adjustable ability to gain balance with Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) The result revealed that ASEAN trading link showed long-term relationships in good balance as well as short-term adjustable ability to gain balance of the models among the three countries. It was found that factors influencing Thailand and Malaysia stock markets were accordingly correlated opposed from Singapore which means that the three countries are well-balanced in the long and short run. It may be concluded that the stock markets in the three countries will demonstrate good integration after the ASEAN Trading Link

This research aimed to develop and study efficiency and effectiveness index of Vocational Course to ASEAN as well as to study level of satisfaction and work process skills of students who study V 33102 Vocational Course to ASEAN. The samples in this research were 65 Twelfth Grade students who enrolled in second semester of academic year 2012 at Soponsirirat School under the Secondary Education Service Area office 8 Ratchaburi province. The samples were selected by Purposive Sampling from two classes of Twelfth Grade students. Research tools consisted of curriculum lesson plans achievement test students’ satisfaction survey questionnaire and evaluation form of students’ work process skills. Data were statistically analyzed for Percentage Means and Standard Deviation. Results revealed that Curriculum and lesson plans of Vocational Course to ASEAN for Twelfth Grade students had higher efficiency than the standard of 80/80 (85.75/87.30). Effectiveness index was also higher than the standard of 0.50 (0.80). Students’ satisfaction in instruction was in the highest level and students’ working skills were also at very good level. This means that the course is suitable and could be adopted to prepare students for ASEAN Economic Community in every school under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office.