What about English in Accountancy?

RECENTLY, there have been heated debates on using English medium in the teaching of Science and Maths.

Policy makers should ask themselves which medium adopted would benefit the development of our young generation and hence bring our country to a higher level of development and being able to compete globally.

We should not make changes just because we face difficulty in implementation. We should identify the problems and rectify them.

Another subject which the Education Minister should seriously consider using English as a medium is Accounts. I don’t see the benefits of teaching Accounts in Bahasa Malaysia as the Malaysian accounting standards (FRS) are adopted from International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS ) which are written in English.

Students and working adults who wish to pursue further in accounting as their career by taking professional paper, such as LCCI or ACCA, will face difficulty in understanding the accounting terms as both papers will be set in English .

In addition , in today’s corporate world, have you come across any financial report published in Bahasa Malaysia?

I remember how during my university studies, I faced lots of problems in accounting subject as all reference books are in English. Should accounting be taught in English then, I believe I could progress better.

The same problem is being faced by my students now and they also wish that English was used as a medium of teaching at secondary schools. Hence, I urge the Minister to seriously consider switching accounting subject to English for the benefit of all parties.

CONCERNED CITIZEN,
Kulim, Kedah.