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Learning POA Concepts through What, Why and How?

Tips to Study Accounts Studying effectively matters on how curious you are about a particular subject. If your heart isn’t completely dedicated to the particular subject of accounting then it can turn pure tedium. Let’s discuss today about how to focus on study time and learn the basics of accounting efficiently.   Read your Books? Reading books is a good habit, whatever you can learn from books by yourself cannot be taught by another source, so this is   a great resource for learning accounts, but there is a difference in going through accounting books and regular history, science and English literature books, though it can be related with the concepts of maths.   Accounting Concepts are purely focussed on What, Why and How? 1)      The concept of “WHAT”? - The concept of   What   means whatever you are studying in Chapter1   should be clear to you because the concepts are interrelated to each other when you go through the next ...

Does your child take Principles of Accounts in school?

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Is your child committing one of these three major mistakes? 1.       Poor grasp of accounting concepts. Be it the current or the revised POA syllabus , a poor grasp of accounting concepts leads to accumulation of doubts and this hinder learning which make the subsequent POA topics even difficult. Many secondary 3 POA students often neglect this subject and ‘snowball’ all their misconceptions until every end. 2.      Insufficient bridging from concepts to application Due to the change in the accounting landscape in Singapore, Principles of Accounts (POA) unlike in the good old days was an easy subject to master at the O or N levels, is now becoming more demanding and challenging. Hence, it is important to bridge between concepts and application in order to handle higher-order thinking questions in examinations. 3.      Last priority is given to this subject POA is so boring! POA is so confusing. Stu...