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ACCOUNTING 3 and Onwards

For the past days, I have developed a personal routine that may soon evolve in a “repetition compulsion” disorder. It’s studying. Accounting 3 or Partnership and Corporation is no joke people! It is the stage where English proficiency and logical illustrations collide for you to get the truth. And this subject is generally the waterloo of Accountancy students.

How to prepare to get the “truth”?

This needs mind set. I think that is fundamentally THE factor. It is the mindset or way of thinking which separates a winner from a looser, an anxious man from an amazed man. So what is my mindset? My mindset is that of a treasure hunter (I’m really fond if fantasizing) which always triggers my amazement or sense of wonder in all things I see. An accounting problem paragraph – filled with words and amounts is like an enclosed archeological field filled with hidden and priceless treasures ready to be excavated. For you to unearth these treasures, you need tools. The tools here are the procedures and templates in deriving the accounts needed. With the correct practice and use of these tools, the treasure will be in your hands in a minute or two. So I hope the treasure hunter mind set may give us a fun and adventurous kick start in analyzing and answering accounting problems.

Studying is a Prayer.

God can be found in all subjects.

Accounting is a subject.

God can be found in accounting.

True. Accounting is actually an art or we need to treat it as an art. As a form of art, it has beauty. It is beautiful and it is in beauty that we find truth. The absolute truth is God. So what is with the syllogisms? I’m just excited about Philo 1 next semester. Anyway, it is appreciating the gift of the human mind in its pursuit to establish order and beauty in a seemingly chaotic and random universe. Studying accounting in a sense is actually one way of you understanding, practicing and extending a faculty of man which is creating beauty out of chaos in the context of civilizations and material exchange.