MACC (MAksi Accounting Competition), which is an accounting competition for Bachelor's degree students
and equivalent throughout Indonesia with the theme Challenge Your Accounting Skill to be Smart Generation
held by HIMMA (Association of Master of Accounting Students) FEB UGM in
2018 on a national scale, registration is open on September 1-15, 2018. The courses
being competed are: Introductory Accounting 1, Introductory Accounting 2,
Advanced Financial Accounting, Taxation, Intermediate Financial Accounting, Cost Accounting, Management Accounting,
Auditing, Public Sector Accounting, and Accounting Information Systems. Our team consists of 3 people
consisting of Rheta Septian, Indri Sesariani, and Febrica Lukita (AKSI 2015).

(from left to right: Rheta Septian, Indri Sesariani, and Febrica Lukita)

The competition stages consist of 3 events, namely the preliminary round, the final round, and
the grand final round. In the preliminary round, each registered team will
take part in the preliminary round which requires participants to work on an
online preliminary test within the time determined by the committee. And the 10 participants with the best scores will
advance to the next stage, namely the final round.
On September 21st the preliminary test results were announced and our team qualified for
the final round which was held on September 28th, 2018 which took place at the Master of
Accounting FEB UGM Jalan Sosio Humaniora No. 1, Bulaksumur, Yogyakarta. Before
participating in the final round, we first attended a Technical Meeting which
aimed to discuss the technical aspects of the competition on September 27th, 2018.
In the final round, each team will go through a series of competitions where
the scores from each competition will be accumulated to determine the 4 teams with the
highest scores, who will then advance to the grand final round. The types of competitions themselves
are as follows:
1. Manufacturing Company Accounting Cycle
Each team is required to compile a manufacturing company accounting cycle, according
to the questions provided by the committee.
2. True False
Each team must answer short essay questions with true or false answers.
3. Accounting puzzles
Each team must answer short questions, related to accounting terms
according to the specified course. The questions consist of 30 horizontal and
vertical questions. Correct answers will get 5 points, wrong answers -2, and no
answer will get 0 points.

In the grand final, four selected teams will compete in a debate competition consisting of
semi-finals and a final, with the winner determined by a panel of judges. In this round,
each team will be drawn against each other. The three teams with
the highest scores, based on the judges' cumulative scores, will be selected.