Accounting Concepts is really important in today’s business world. Not only the basic but even to the highest degree of accounting. If you don’t notice, I can say that every day in our life we used Mathematics and some sort of accounting. We usually count money, calculate the change and always check if how much money did we spent and how much still got. Almost every person on different profession needs to have at least basic knowledge of accounting because sometimes it will make you more competitive in your field when you have basic accounting knowledge.
On our previous seminar for IT/CS intern students like me, the speaker tends to share his knowledge about basic accounting concepts. The importance of basic accounting concepts on our course is that we will be more competitive and gain an additional knowledge which we can use in our future job. We are IT students who will become programmers and software developers someday or we might establish our own company in the near future. It is important that we know the basic debit/credit in accounting if we are going to create an accounting program or software but for me basic accounting concepts is not enough when you plan to be a accounting programs developer instead use it as a starting point for further studies about accounting concepts. Because the more knowledge on accounting plus the skills on programming, you will definitely develop an effective accounting program.
Once you applied accounting concepts and programming it will surely gives you a nice income. I still remember what my former professor told us about his experienced when he was still applying for a job, he applied in an organization/company as a programmer but when he was interviewed, the interviewee asked him if he had a background on accounting he answered none, obviously he did not passed the interview because of that simple question, so he advised us to take basic accounting course as early as now because maybe we might also encounter the same problem he encountered before.
