Entrepreneur Subject 4 Accounting Student

There is one interesting article published in the Kompas newspaper, Tuesday, 23 October 2007. The title is entrepreneurship can be learned. There are two important points found in the article.

First, the job opportunity is limited. If a student graduated and just think and fight to get a job, then the unemployment rate will increase. In the other hand, if a student take a decision to be an entrepreneur, at least s/he can create a job for her/him self. Further, s/he can create jobs for other people too.

Second, actually the university can take a role to encourage student to be an entrepreneur. Thus, it is important to put an entrepreneurship subject in the curriculum. Ciputra University, Surabaya and Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta includes entrepreneurship as one subject in the curriculum.

This idea is also relevant for an accounting graduate. Actually, an accounting graduate already had one half of the knowledge about managing business. Accounting student learned how to create a good accounting system for recording business transaction. They also already learned how to use the accounting information for business decision making and for evaluating the business performance. They also know how to compute tax and to fulfill tax responsibility to the government. They also know how to compute profit and loss and so and so. Any way it is just half!

To be more ready to be an entrepreneur, they need to learn other subject. They need to learn how to start a new business. What kind of regulation need to be fulfilled before running a new firm. They also need to learn how to spot a business opportunity, even how to create a new business opportunity.