ACCOUNTING SCIENTIFIC WEEK 2020

The Accounting Scientific Week (PIA) is a national level accounting competition organized by the Accounting Student Association (HMA) of the Faculty of Economics and Business, Lambung Mangkurat University. This competition brings together Accounting students at
throughout Indonesia to establish friendship and increase relations with all accounting students in Indonesia. The Accounting Scientific Week, hereinafter abbreviated as PIA, was first realized in 1997. PIA has various series of events including Accounting Competition (AC) and National Seminar. This year PIA comes with the theme Re-inventing the Roles of Accountants Amidst Global & SDG`s 2030 Challengeʺ. SDG's 2030 is a sustainable development agenda that has just been created to answer the demands of world leadership in overcoming poverty, inequality, and climate change in the form of concrete actions contained in the 17 sustainable development goals. Through PIA 2020 activities, students can see new opportunities to support and optimize the role of the accounting profession towards the changes that occur towards SDG's 2030. 

In 2020 for the first time PIA was held online. This is due to the COVID-19 pandemic and as a form of support for the government to reduce the spread of COVID-19 by doing social distancing and working from home. After the selection process, 15 best teams were selected from all over Indonesia. Airlangga University was represented by two teams. The concept of this competition is very interesting, filled with several games in each round, this Online Competition activity is expected to be a new experience for students as well as to teach students to remain adaptive in responding to various changes in natural conditions.