The Accounting Championship or what is usually called ACHAMP is an annual competition organized by the Accounting Department Student Association (HMJA) of the Faculty of Economics and Business, Jember University. Just like previous years, ACHAMP 2019 can be participated in by PTN/PTS students throughout Indonesia. This activity is a series of events from the Jember Accounting Fair 2019 (JAFa 2019). The background is that accounting graduates are basically prepared to become someone who works in the accounting field, who of course is required to have the skills needed in the world of work. ACHAMP 2019 has the theme "Optimize the Role of Youth Accountant Generation to Conquer Artificial Intelligence Era".
After going through an online selection which was held on Friday, 16 August 2019, two representatives of the Universitas Airlangga team managed to qualify for the top 14 round and were selected to continue the main round at Jember University, in Jember. On the first day, 12 September 2019, 14 teams that had qualified for the main round arrived to register and take part in the Technical Meeting which was opened with remarks from the Head of the Accounting Study Program at Jember University.
The first qualifying round started at 09.35 on that day. This qualifying round consists of 2 stages, namely choose the one, and case study consolidated report, to determine the 8 best teams that will qualify for the semifinal round. The Universitas Airlangga team succeeded in achieving 6th and 7th place in determining the 8 best teams to advance to the semifinals. The other 6 teams are 3 teams from Perbanas Surabaya, 1 team from Multimedia Nusantara University, 1 team from Widya Mandala Catholic University, and the last one is a team from Lambung Mangkurat University.
The semifinals were held on the second day of the competition. This round consists of 3 stages, namely moving slide, mix and match, and score gambling, where in this last stage 8 teams will be divided into 2 pools to compete for seats in the final round. Based on the draw, the first Universitas Airlangga team with the team name "Unair 1" must compete against teams from Perbanas, WM, and Lambung Mangkurat in pool 1, and the second Universitas Airlangga team with the team name "Metanoia" must compete against teams from Perbanas (2 teams ), and UMN in pool 2. The scores from the semifinal round are accumulated from the 3 stages that have been passed. And Praise be to the two representative teams from Universitas Airlangga were able to successfully qualify for the final stage, namely the top 5 which were ranked 2nd and 3rd. And the other 3 teams were ranked first by the UMN team, fourth ranked by the Perbanas team and last ranked by the team WM.
After the Friday prayer break at around 13.00 the final round immediately began. In this round there is only 1 stage, namely the relay essay. Where each team is given a topic about Artificial Intelligence: Cloud Accounting, in this stage the team that passes must discuss a case that has been provided by the committee, and to work on it, each team member takes turns discussing the case in powerpoint form with 10 minutes per team member, so the total 30 minutes of work, where later the ppt will be presented by each team. After the work is complete, it is time to draw lots for the presentation queue. The Matanoia team from Unair got second place, and the Unair 1 team from Unair got third place.
The winners were announced the following day after the end of the National Seminar which was also a series of JAFa 2019 events. Praise be to God Almighty, the two teams representing Universitas Airlangga succeeded in winning. 1st place was won by the Unair 1 team consisting of Patrick Aloysius Wijaya (AKS1 2016), Tanaya Devi Kemala (AKS1 2016), Fince Layadi (AKS1 2016). 2nd place was won by the UMN Jakarta team, and 3rd place was won by the Metanoia team representing Universitas Airlangga consisting of Hari Suciati (AKS1 2016), Thalia Novita Sari (AKS1 2016), Nofika Diana Wati (AKS1 2016).
The competition was a valuable experience and the Universitas Airlangga student team learned a lot of lessons. Hopefully the achievements that have been achieved can be an encouragement for Universitas Airlangga students so that they can continue to give their best and strive to be better at the next opportunity. Keep it up ???? God bless ????
