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Accounting subject is crucial for accounting students as well non-accounting students as it is necessary requirement to fulfill their course undertaken. Apparently, common perception from students are accounting is boring, difficult to understand the basic concept and a hard course to comprehend. Their perceptions affect their attitude towards the course and therefore academic performance. Students do in fact value interactive opportunities with peers and prefer to take an active part in the learning process as interactivity is more engaging and more effective than just listening. Thus, this Amazacc Brain Teaser Card is an educational game designed for use in the financial accounting classroom. Amazacc Brain Teaser Card is recommended to be used in classroom as to demonstrate the relationship between the assets, liabilities, owner’s equity, revenue and expenses of a business. It is the foundation for the double-entry bookkeeping system elements in the accounting equation. These games encourage students to explore while learning. More importantly, it is a creative classroom activity which is both competitive and collaborative. Students are given Amazacc Brain Teaser card that consists of the challenges need to be done. Therefore, when students understand the elements and the relationship between those element it will make them more confident and motivate to develop their interest in financial accounting course and finally achieve a good result on this subject.
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Najid, N.A., Wan Tahir, W.M.M., Md Pauzi, S.F., Mat Rahim, N., Mat Dangi, M.R. (2016). Use of Amazacc Brain Teaser Card for Financial Accounting Classroom: Non-accounting Students. In: Abdullah, M., Yahya, W., Ramli, N., Mohamed, S., Ahmad, B. (eds) Regional Conference on Science, Technology and Social Sciences (RCSTSS 2014). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1458-1_2
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