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The future of The intensive, it became
Bidding Game: Ups increasingly difficult for
and downs Kwong Sin and his
colleagues to set aside
At one point, The time for the game in
Bidding Game enjoyed their lessons. “I can’t
broad use by many reduce content just to
different stakeholders in play the game, that’s not
the SMU School of logical,” he shared
Accountancy. “The ruefully. “This is
game was played by especially so since the
everybody in the game itself does not
Management teach content – it only
Accounting course,” serves to show students
Kwong Sin recalled. “I how to apply the
heard that accounting content.”
students reused the
game in the last few Prospective ideas for
years.” Students could, the future
and did, approach their
instructors for a copy of Despite the challenges,
the game. The Kwong Sin does not

Accounting Students intend to stop at The
Association (ASOC) Bidding Game, or other
used it in their accounting immersion camp for Junior games for that matter. In fact, he enthusiastically mooted
College and Polytechnic students. A number of Kwong several ideas to take the whole concept of game-use in
Sin’s colleagues also adopted The Bidding Game for their the accountancy classroom to the next level. Building on
teaching. his past experiences with multi-disciplinary business
games, he broadly articulated his vision of developing a
However, as course content got heavier and more business game for use in capstone courses. Capstone