Singapore accounting professors receive international honour for innovative teaching

• Main Author: Singapore Management University
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Singapore; higher education; Singapore Management University; accountancy; innovation; Accounting; Asian Studies; Higher Education
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/oh_pressrelease/97; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1104&context=oh_pressrelease

Seow Poh Sun, Associate Professor of Accounting (Education) and Associate Dean (Teaching and Curriculum) and senior lecturer Wong Suay Peng of the School of Accountancy at Singapore Management University recently were honoured with the 2015 Innovation in Accounting Education Award from the American Accounting Association (AAA). The award, sponsored by the Ernst & Young Foundation, was given to Prof Seow and Ms Wong in recognition of their outstanding achievement in innovative teaching in the use of a mobile game app. Their work "Accounting Challenge: Mobile-Gaming App for Learning Accounting" is the first mobile-gaming app developed for teaching financial accounting. It aims to enhance learning of accounting by engaging students to play and learn accounting on the go, anywhere at any time.