The application of interactive worksheet to improve vocational students' ability to write financial statements

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Aisyah Larasati, Apif Miftahul Hajji

2017 AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 1887 Conference paper Cited by 0

Abstract

Vocational students in Culinary Department is required to mastering the ability on managing restaurant. One of the responsibility of the students while operating a training restaurant is writing financial statements. Most of the time, writing financial statements is the hardest part for students to be conducted in a training restaurant since the students have studied limited theory/courses on that topic. This research aims to explore the improvement of students' ability to write financial statements after the application of interactive worksheet by asking them to solve financial statements case study. This research is an experimental research. Three groups of samples are used in this research, in which each of the group consists of 74 students. The first group consists of the students who solve the case study without using any software/application, the second group solve the case study by using Microsoft excel, and the third group solve the case study by using the interactive worksheet application. The results show that the use of interactive worksheet significantly improve the students ability to solve the financial statement case study either in term of accuracy or time needed to write the financial statement. © 2017 Author(s).

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Department of Industrial Technology, Faculty of Engineering, State University of Malang, Malang, Indonesia; Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, State University of Malang, Malang, Indonesia