Introduction to Accounting

Reflective Journal 3

After eleven weeks attended accounting class, I have learnt so many things in introduction to accounting subject. Almost all of the chapters can be understood by me during tutorial class. However, I realize that I am really weak in plant assets and receivables chapters. At the beginning I can understand, but at the end I will get confuse and do not know everything. To prepare my final exam later, I promise to myself to study earlier and more focus. I really like accounting since senior high school so I think to focus in study accounting will not be hard for me. :)

Introduction to Management

Reflective Journal 

 

Setting a plan is a must in our life, since it makes our daily activity become more organized. It can be started from a small thing like a plan where to go or what to do. Planning is very important since it can be as our direction in every act which makes us is able to reduce uncertainty, so that we are able to minimize waste of time, money and others. 

There are two time frames of plan, first is long term plans which has time frame more than three years. Second is short term plans with time frames which only in one year or less.

Everyone in this world of course have their own dreams. They longed for something to do, owned or perceived these times or in some future time. Like everyone, I also have my own dream which is really expected to happen. Since now I have just continued my study in university, of course completing the study on time in three years is expected. I want to make my parents proud because seeing their daughter get her degree with a good result. I do not want to make them upset, especially after struggling to find money to fund my studies at Taylor’s University which is certainly not cheap.

After finishing my study, surely I want to find a good work so that can raise money and help parents to pay the education of my brothers. Besides that, I also do not forget to provide a decent life for my parents during enjoying their old age. Because it is time for them to take a break from work hard find money. And then married and have cute and smart children. 

However, before reach all of it, I realize still have to face everything in these times. At the end of this month, we will have final exam for semester one. Doing final exam fluently is my biggest plan for this year. Since semester one is started, I kept feeling unable to get through due to differences in language and still unfamiliar with the lessons which make me hard to learn everything. However, I really hope can pass it and work more hard so that can get the best result in this first semester. The next plan after that is going back to hometown.  I really that can go back as fast as I can, since already really missed my parents and brothers there.

Besides planning, to achieve a goal also need controlling. It can make us know whether our plans and goals are on target and what future actions to take.  In the process of my study, concurrent type of control will be useful since it helps me to stay focused on my goals which are completed the study within three years, obtain appropriate work and could eventually help my parents so that they do not to work again. To achieve this certainly will not be easy, it will be so many things which will interfere thus I lose my focus. 

Finishing my study on time and getting best result indirectly is a control to get a good work in the future. It means I have started to control my future which is begun from my study now which will really impact what I will become in the future.

Continuing our study in different places means we have to be separated far away and do not know when can meet again. But, I have to keep my friendship which already we built long time ago can be last forever. In this condition, keep contacting each other always being done so that we can know everything which has been happened. In this case, feedback control is applied.

The conclusion is that planning and controlling are related to each other in reaching goals. Perfect goals cannot be reached if we do not have good plans to get it and also without controls everything which has been settled will not work properly.

Introduction to Accounting

Reflective Journal 2

This is my first time having online test. While doing it, I was extremely very nervous since we are only given one hour to finish it even there are two attempts. My friend who already done it told me that she had to do the second attempt because the internet connection in her house is so bad thus made she failed. It made me become more afraid, till I encourage myself to start to do it. Since there are ten multiple choice questions and three essays, I started from multiple choice first with the easiest questions. After finish it, I continued with the essays. I really thankful since my essay’s questions am not as difficult as my friends :)

Microeconomics

Since in high school, economics has become my favourite subject. I was really excited every time got economics class.  Not like other subjects, even in bad condition I still attend the class with pleasure. I really like it since in my opinion; we can use our own understanding to follow the lesson. Economic lesson is only about a more detailed description of the economic activity which we often do in our daily life.

Microeconomics has already been learnt by me during high school. Actually, it really helps me to follow the lesson which is given in Taylor’s University. However, when I attended the first lecture, I was really shocked that what will I learn in here will be more specific than before. It means the microeconomics lesson which I have already got last time, is not enough to complete my study here.

Even attended tutorial class, I also did not understand with everything which is taught. It really haunts me every day. I keep thinking what will happen with my final exam later. I am really afraid that my answer which I gave during exam will not meet the requirements of the examiner. This fear has never been imagined before since it is my favourite subject. It also makes me think to give up to my study in Taylor’s University. :( 

After several weeks attending the tutorial class and meeting many friends, I can survive until now. When I don’t understand something, they will try to explain it to me in different ways which make me become easier to understand. On the other hand, besides the microeconomics which is more detail and specific, I get difficulty to follow the lesson because of the different language. Since I am from Indonesia, and always use Indonesian language then I need to work harder to understand what Ms.Marina and Mr.Baharom said. 

At the first time I am also afraid to ask something which I do not understand during tutorial class to Mr.Baharom. I do not know why, every time see him I feel so scared. Maybe since he is really firm during teach us. However, since I met him during article assignment, I knew that he is really friendly person. He is very kind to his students and also gave advice which is really helpful. And then, during tutorial he has also never been angry to us when we cannot answer the question which is given.

Knowing that so many students who are fail last semester also makes me so worry to myself. Every time I do not understand, I kept thinking how if I become part of them. I am really afraid just by imagining it. I do not want make my parents sad because of me. That’s why now I am starting to work harder than before. I promise to do a recap every time before attending the tutorial class. Even I still cannot do it now because of lazy, but I will keep trying. :)

English for Business Purposes

Reflective Journal

Academic integrity is based on a think that students in any learning institution will follow the honest methods of learning and doing assessment even they are faced with stressful situations. The way to achieve educational integrity is by learning how to reference correctly. Referencing gives so many benefits both the writer and the reader. It is able to gain our writing skill and helps those people who read easy to understand. Referencing is very helpful for the reader since it shows the extent of our research, strengthening our argument, our source of argument is shown to the reader, and the reader is allowed to consult and verify our sources independently.

Using someone else’s ideas or working without referencing and submit it as our own work is called as plagiarism. Then, if we want to use it in our assignment, referencing or citing is a must. By learning the Harvard system of referencing to avoid plagiarism, I have learned how to do a paraphrase, summarise, quote and copy. Paraphrase is changing someone else’s words in our own. It makes me become more creative to expand a sentence in different way but still has the same meaning. Summarise is using someone else’s idea in our own words but we reduce it which makes it become more simple and easier to understand. Quote is copy the same sentence as the original then makes it in a quote; however this method can’t be used so many times. Thus copy only can be used in reproduce a diagram, graph or table.

After learning the Harvard system, the way I wrote my first assignment was really different. Copying the same sentence from an article or something else is avoided. Creating my own sentence become more often to be done even it has the same meaning. I also use quotations when I can’t find the way to change it in different sentence. Harvard system also requires referencing list in the end of assignment. That’s why, in the end of my first assignment, there is reference list which include the author, date of the article is made, date of the article is viewed, title, name of publisher, place of publication, page number and the link of the online source.

In my personal preference, it is very important to adhere to the rule of academic integrity since we have to be more cherish to other people’s work. We can’t just take their work which is definitely hard to do and tell it as our hard work. And it also can teach us to be more responsible to everything we do.

Academic integrity really gives so many impacts in my first assignment. I become more confidence and understand with my own work. Surely in my next assignment not only for English but also another subject, I can apply this to make my assignments better. Besides help me to do my assignments, Academic Integrity also gives benefit in my future working life, such as my research paper during semester 5 and also when I work in the future. It will show my own hard work thus I can be proud of myself when produce satisfactory results.