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Accounting Simulation Game - Development of a web based interactive accounting principles simulation game

 

 

Description

This project will develop a web based interactive accounting game to assist in the teaching of important accounting principles to accounting and non-accounting students.

The game will demonstrate:

• The principles of double entry bookkeeping.
• The difference between profit and cash.
• The relationship between the Income and Expenditure Account and the Balance Sheet.

Students will be presented with rounds of transactions for a business be required to draw up that period’s financial accounts.  These will be compiled using ‘drag and drop’ technology,  moving counters round a visually stimulating ‘board’ which simulates the flows of money through the business.

To enhance student learning, students will be encouraged to play the game and undertake practice sessions.  Formative feedback will thus be provided to improve student performance prior to the summative assessment which will consist of a ‘live’ game. The ‘live’ game will form part of the summatively assessed coursework on a number of introductory accounting modules on the BSc (Hons) Accounting; BSc (Hons) Marketing and BSc (Hons) Human Resource Management.

The Institute of Lifelong Learning will provide training to staff on the potential benefits of embedding gaming in the curriculum.

The success of the project will be evaluated at the end of the semester, through student feedback and analysis of student performance data.  

Student attitudes to the use of gaming in accounting teaching will be evaluated through an online questionnaire at the end of the module.

Focus groups will also be conducted with students from each programme to enrich the evaluation.

Performance data for students will be collated and compared to that of previous years to determine whether the introduction of gaming improves performance.

The staff training exercise will be evaluated to see if this intervention has a positive impact on the lack of ICT skills

 

 

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Start date

2008-09-01

End date

2009-05-29