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An accounting course today has become an essential syllabus for social sciences students, particularly, in business, management, and entrepreneurship. Since social sciences students are not purely accounting students, learning accounting is proven to be more challenging for them and innovations for the course, including the methods used in teaching the accounting course. This study aims to develop a Future Ready Accounting Course (FRAC) for non-accounting students by using simple augmented reality technology, embedded into the course’s teaching and learning method. This study examines the non-accounting students’ experiences of applying FRAC in their accounting courses. By using a mixed method approach, questionnaire surveys were conducted to examine the students’ experiences towards FRAC revolving three elements of the course, lecturers, and infrastructures or facilities. Since the lecturer teaching FRAC composed one member of the research team, a field observation also carried out to monitor the FRAC’s implementation. The results of the study reveal an evidence that an accounting course can indeed be taught in more innovative and attractive ways. In other words, accounting departments would do well to consider the novel contribution made by this study by adopting FRAC to replace the old-fashioned conventional accounting courses. It is noted that the non-accounting students employed in this study were able to feel a new experience in learning an accounting course with the adoption of FRAC. This significantly concludes that FRAC can successfully attract and help non-accounting students to excel in their accounting courses to fulfil the requirements of their degrees.
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The authors acknowledge Faculty of Entrepreneurship and Business, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan for the facilities. Special thanks to those who contributed to this project directly or indirectly especially to my family, office-mate and accounting team-mate.
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Zainuddin, S.A. et al. (2021). Examining Future Ready Accounting Course (FRAC) Experiences for Non-accounting Students: An Education in Society 5.0 Using Augmented Reality and IoT. In: Gerber, A., Hinkelmann, K. (eds) Society 5.0. Society 5.0 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1477. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86761-4_15
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