accounting reflective journal(mid term exam)

About the mid term exam, it was quite difficult on the input the data for journal part. I got confused on it since I am not really understood about the question that have a sales on debit or credit, I have forgotten already. I used so half an hour for that part on my second attempt. The time that given was so short, it even not enough. At the second attempt I did it quickly so I have more time to do the journal part. I think I need to do more exercise for the accounting so I can score good marks on it.

Microeconomics reflective journal

Microeconomics is one of my modules for this semester. Basically what I have learnt from this module is the definition of some economics and put it on the graphs. Besides that, we were given some examples related to the cases that happened on the society with the lesson we have been taught on the tutorial. On the lesson one until lesson three we were taught about economics basic definition, demand and supply, and the elasticity that I have learned before on the high school. The things that different is the way to understand it, now as a degree student I must use English to understand the lesson; usually back on my hometown I used to use Indonesian to absorb any lesson on the study. It was a little hard at the first, but now I think I am slightly better than before, hopefully I can be at a level that the teachers wished in the future.

On the fourth, fifth, and the sixth lesson, I can honestly say that the real problem came. I was so hard to understand about the short run and long run but thanks to Alexis (one of the world scholarship student that live on the same apartment with me) I can understand about it clearer than before. He just taught me that to differentiate about long run and short run is long run only has the variable cost and only on the short run it has something called fixed cost. He also told me that actually long run also got the fixed cost which are the factors of production. On these lecture I also learnt about the EOS (economic of scales) and the DOS (diseconomies of scales) which can determined why is an average cost on the long run is decrease or increase.

The next few chapters that are lecture seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth is all about the market competition. I was taught that market competitions are divided into many markets like for example monopoly and oligopoly. Monopoly, each times I heard that word, it keeps remembering me of the monopoly board game I used to play. It was very fun; if you are rich enough you will try to buy as many land as you can in order to conquer the whole game; you can confiscate your friend’s houses and lands whenever they stepped on your area and cannot paying the bills. That is where I got the definition of the monopoly, but if we compare to the lecture taught, there is no big difference; the meaning are basically the same, just on the lecture it is more economic which on the board game it is more social because people can understand easier.

That all about my experience on learning Microeconomics module, hopefully I can maximize what I have learnt on the university and contribute it to the society. I also wish that the lecturer would try their best on teaching their student so they can understand whole the topic they are talking about. I would suggest some games on that related to microeconomics, I think it can make the lesson seem more interesting.

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English For Business Purpose Reflective Journal

Academic integrity, this thing really make me have a hard time when doing the first assignment on Taylor, I was forced to be really honest and responsible on my assignments to avoid plagiarism. We cannot copy even a single sentence except we quote it. We need to paraphrase, referencing, summary and all other more where I usually did it less before. Because before came to Taylor my school at Indonesia, they didn’t really more focus on the citation and the references where most of the information are from Wikipedia and we just copy paste it without paraphrasing.

When I did my first assignment I had been confused and stunned on doing it, it was really difficult and different from what I have learnt before. The requirement was so high strict. When I was doing an assignment, it was like final exam to me. It was much more harder than I predicted. More over, English, I still lack of vocabulary and how to use meaningful words on the right place. After the first assignment, I have been telling myself that I should read more books and news, practice to write more essays because if I don’t, I really cannot handle with the assignment given by the teacher.  For now, it is still hard for me, but I think I will become more used to it.

The teacher insisted on us to use the Havard Referencing system on doing assignment, which is one of the hardest part for me on doing the first assignment. I need to read, compare and paraphrase sentences on every book I read related to my assignment. I usually seldom read books, so from today on I have been telling myself to make library as my favourite place so I can stay there and read some more books to expand my knowledge. For me who never used to did that but this is because for my own good too so I need to bear it.

            I think what Taylor’s do is that is the reason why I choose studying there too. Maybe for them it is really important to adhere the rule of academic integrity because the originality of a single hard work should be respected. That’s why the integrity exist, and I think if one day I becoming an author of a book, I won’t wish that my works are copied by other people without reference it. So I can understand why Taylor’s did that for past few years and still using it until today. I hope this way of learning will let us, students learn how to be proud of ourselves on our work and later on the future market world, we won’t lose our own creativity to the others and we can deliver each of our originality to the world.

Accounting Reflective Journal

The first semester of taking introduction of accounting I think this module is hard, but I think it will be easy if I pay attention on it. If I don’t understand what the teachers are saying, I can’t do anything. Besides that, we must do every single account accurately and look over all the accounts closely to make sure we didn’t misplace it. I can say that I certainly need this module on the future because by learning accounting I can look through accounts so I do understand what is really happening, is it a gain or a loss.

Quantitative methods(library literacy workshop) reflective journal

I feel library literacy workshop will be useful for me when I need a information for a particular company, basically the first library workshop talks about how we can use the passport GMID, at that time we were taught for how to find a information we want based on the categories. The speaker explained it by giving some practical examples (searching for the washing machines). From the database we can know which company will be our competitor if we try to selling the product. And all of the companies are the international top company who are on the today market. But one thing I feel need some improvement is the tempo of the speaker, it will be perfect if the speed could be slow down a little bit, last time it was too fast which makes us need to hurry so we can follow up with her. But for the overall, it was worth a thumb, because I really didn’t know that there is a feature like that at the library. I thought the library only provide that something we can see on the ordinary library. I look forward to the next library workshops, hope can learnt something new more from it.

It's me, Elvin Rinaldy

hi, i'm Elvin Rinaldy, student from Taylor's Business program, currently taking International Business Major and now on semester one. :))

my original country is Indonesia, specifically at Batam. i left my house, my family, my friends, come here, to get my dreams come true. hopefully everything at my hometown will be alright. and hope all of them are fine as well as me in here. God bless me. :D

my religion is Christian. Jesus is my savior, and bible is my life guidance. He has saved me from the darkness and protect me from the devil, and i will always follow Him and be granted for what i have given.

i have one big brother, Ricky Riady and one younger sister, Shirley Ritalia. They are my the best siblings i ever had, even though we sometimes had a fight, but at the last we're fine again. My brother currently study at Singapore Polytechnic and my sister having her secondary school at Singapore too.

i love to play, love to make friends and love to eat. my hobbies are basketball, swimming, and talking with friends.