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Assessing Accounting Cycle Skill Software

Accounting cycle skill is fundamental to the mastery of accounting. It is long established that one way to enhance this skill is for learners to continually practice akin to the learning of mathematics. And, in order to gauge one’s performance, a feedback system from examiners is essential. Given the mass of data, assessing learners’ work accurately is very challenging especially in situation where the number of scripts is large. Until today, assessment software in accounting education is uncommon, more so, off-the-shelf and even if available are designed to deal with only objective answer-typed questions.

AssessUrBook revolutionizes accounting education by offering a technology-based solution to mark students’ work while providing valuable immediate performance feedback. More specifically, the software provides

     
  i)
A test bank, flexible and easily maintained by individual instructor and with questions capable to be randomly generated during an examination setting.
   
 
  ii)
A comprehensive examination format covering all bookkeeping processes from journalizing to preparing financial statements.
   
 
  iii)
A user-friendly interface as medium for instructors to build their answer schemes and for students to key in answers.
   
 
  iv)
Detailed performance evaluation of individual student.
   
 
  v)
Overall performance report for each assessment exercise.
 
The software also incorporates access control features to ensure that each user group is able to perform only designated tasks.

The AssessUrBook initiative is an innovation that opens up a new dimension in examination and assessment approaches for basic accounting. The feedback mechanism, superior than traditional approach should contribute to students’ learning. About two third of the usual marking time is shown to be saved by using AssessUrBook while some possible unethical examination practices can be contained through individualized randomly generated questions.

Given that accounting cycle is fundamental to basic accounting, this software is suitable for use by many user groups and at all levels of education, formal and informal, face-to-face or remote. Users to benefit from this software include not only accounting school teachers and students but also those pursuing degree programs whether accounting or non-accounting and also professional courses. Examination bodies are also to benefit from AssessUrBook.
 
 
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