Jean, my Manager, & I have talked about the course we want to design. We decided a Flexible Learning Course for MYOB would meet the needs of our community. We have many small businesses & lots of people who own them have inherited MYOB as an accounting program. Many don't know how to use it so it does the job efficiently, but don't have time to attend full-time MYOB courses at our Cromwell Campus.We have 2 potential target Learner types who require different resources & tools:-1.People who own a small business & already have the program. They want to learn to use it more efficiently, so it answers the questions & generates reports they can send to the Accountant. These people don't really want a qualification.2.People who want to learn how to use an Accounting program for employment purposes. These people want a qualification as proof they can use an Accounting program effectively.We decided, because of time constraints, we would target the 1st group. There are more people in this group also. Although a qualification is not necessary we will probably design this course around the Unit Standards elements, as this is a good basis for a complete course.This is a specialised program so the student should be competent in the use of Excel (or similar) to US Level 2.I would also like to follow up on group 2 to make it a course where students can access free software & use it with a set of data we have created. That plan will have to wait. I did look at some free software & it looked promising.I will send Jean all the postings on my blog to keep her informed. Leigh, Jean says you will understand if she doesn't want to blog.
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this is an excellent idea Vida. Did you know that the School of Business administration Forth st is also looking at how they will deliver MYOB as part of some of their new courses planned for flexible delivery in the workplace. It would be a great idea if you contacted Annette Cowie and Bev Hancox to see how far they have got with this.
Bev is also exploring how to put an accounting course online. I like your idea of setting up a short course for the people who have small businesses. and I also like the idea of using freely available accounting software applications.
You will be very popular if you save the businesses some money.
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