Due date: Reflective report Monday, 19 March 2012, by 2pm.

You must print out and submit a hard copy. All submissions must be made to the assignment collection boxes at level 2, Block E. Please obtain an assessment cover form from Yoges/ Rena from the Divisional Office.

What to include in the reflective report?

-Learning log 1-5 (Read the IFA module booklet) -Summary of the business transactions -MYOB financial information (Ledger a/c, Trial Balance, Statement of Income & Balance Sheet/ Statement of Financial Position) -Reflective report (maximum 1,000 words)

Depth and breadth of thought given to the reflective report including: -Depth of reflection on development of skills during the year -What the student has learnt about their skills and themselves in writing this report

How to write a reflective report

What is reflection?
It is a process of looking back on what you have learned, and thinking about how useful it is and how it can affect your future personal and career development.

In IFA your reflection is on..

The skills you have been developing in the IFA module. How important are IT skills for a future finance professional? How important are the development and the understanding of numerical data skills to a future financial professional? However, does a future financial professional only need numeracy skills?

Your reflection is on
Your learning during your first year at Taylors And you should reflect on.
the bookkeeping test and preparing accounts manually The MYOB project and preparing accounts using a computer package What it means to be a professional

Why is it useful?
Relates what you are learning to what you already know and to your plans for the future makes learning more meaningful

Activity
Is it reflective or descriptive?

Reflection in this module involves

Thinking about your learning during the year.

What would be useful to you in your future career? What did you find interesting? What was not so interesting? What skills do you feel you will need as a future professional?

When does reflection work best?

When you think about what you are doing BEFORE, DURING and AFTER your learning experience

Help with reflection

Think about the developing a professional framework

Developing as a professional lifelong process

Business awareness Ethics and professionalism Personal effectiveness Professional judgement

Technical and functional expertise

Looking back on the 2011 term: what have you learnt in each of these areas?

Not just learning a series of topics!

Learning about accounting and whether it is up to the job: Achieving a degree involves thinking about how each topic fits into a greater whole understanding the underlying principles critiquing the effectiveness of accounting

Learning types
Take the attached quiz on the VARK questionnaire What is your preferred learning style? How may your learning style affect your experience of various modules?

Writing about your feelings

Think about your learning during this year Think about Issues, difficulties and confusions How did you deal with any difficulties? How might you have avoided a difficulty/confusion?

How are you changing?

How are your ideas changing as the year progresses? Complete the Perceptions of Accounting exercise.. Do you feel that accounting is all about numbers? Why or why not Has your view changed over the year?

Asking for feedback

Have I asked for feedback on my work? How have you responded or made use of feedback received?

Keep asking yourself

What am I learning? Who and what is proving helpful? What connections can be made to other areas of study? How and where might I use my new knowledge and competence? Source: http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~rosbotto/general /reflect.html

Examples
Bookkeeping skills how will I use these skills? Have I applied for a job after the May 2012 exam, where I can use these skills? Can I use the MYOB project to help me in a future job?

Think about a learning episode

After the learning episode ask yourself
What can I do better now? What surprised me? Who and what helped? What questions are to answered? What next?

Source: http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~rosbotto/general /reflect.html

Starting points
The most boring thing was The most annoying thing was The most intriguing thing was One thing I learned today was about how other people act.. I discussed it with a friend and.

Remember
You should be writing about yourself and your journey through university so it is very personal it should contain your thoughts and feelings and not just be a descriptive answer to these questions