2nd Games and Simulations in Accounting and Finance Education (GSAFE) Conference – Tuesday 20th April 2021 Online via Zoom (links to follow) – Hosted by Accounting Department

9.00am Gathering of Delegates in Main Room

9.15 Welcome to the GSAFE Network

Matt Davies, Senior Lecturer in Accounting, Aston University

9.20 Welcome to Aston Business School

Professor George Feiger, Executive Dean of the College of Business and Social Sciences Aston Business School

9.25 Plenary Session 1: Opening Address – Games and Simulations in Accounting and Finance Education

Professor Jordi Carenys, EADA Business School, ; Visiting Professor Aston University

9.55 5 minute opportunity to move rooms

10.00 Parallel Session 1

Main Room – Simulations/Games Showcase Room B - Game and Simulation Deployment and Use (1) Chair: Martin Potts Chair: Darren Sparkes Abdy Taminsyah, Dr Gillian Vesty MonsoonSIM RMIT University

Experiential teaching and learning of Using serious games in accounting education accounting and beyond Dr Seow Poh Sun Andrew Smerdon, Dr Stacey Noble, Matthew Management University Howard, Dr Sayjda Talib

Accounting Challenge mobile-gaming app Using business game simulations to embed contemporary working practices within a degree programme Yoshin Chetty1 and Carley Chetty2 Tran Thanh Thuy, Professor Christian Herzig 1The Independent Institute of Education, University of Kassel Johannesburg 2The University of Johannesburg

The use of games in auditing to promote The effectiveness of using a Kahoot game in learning creating a playful learning environment: evidence from a blended course

11.00 Break – 10 minutes (return to Main Room)

11.10 Lightning Plenary 1

Accounting Bissim: developments in content, application and delivery

Darren Sparkes, De Montfort University, Leicester

11.25 Lightning Plenary 2

The Count FEFE mobile application: reflections and future developments

Matt Davies, Aston University

Martin Potts, Aston University

11.40 Plenary Session 2

Using an online simulation to teach Audit in face to face, online, and blended learning formats

Dr Susan Whittaker (Cardiff University), Helen Scott (Liverpool University)

12.10 Break – 10 minutes (opportunity to move rooms)

12.20 Parallel Session 2

Main Room – Alternative Perspectives on Room B – Academic Perspectives on Games/Simulations/Playful Learning Games/Simulations/Playful Learning

Chair: Susan Whittaker Chair: Matt Davies Kelly Watson, Holly Hancocks Dr Jatin Pancholi, Richard Cartwright Bromsgrove and Redditch BC University of Southampton

CIPFA in the Midlands sixth form management Accounting education: literature review and games: a public finance simulation game experiences with playful learning Dr Ilias Basioudis, Dr Achilleas Karayiannis Dr Zlatinka Blaber Aston University Salem State University

Negotiation competition skills in Higher Accounting classroom contests: cartoons in Education: a vital cross-disciplinary competency need of captions and captions in need of cartoons

12.55 Break – 15 minutes (opportunity to move rooms)

13.10 Parallel Session 3

Main Room – Game/Simulation Deployment Room B – Outside the Classroom and Online and Use (2)

Chair: Toby York Chair: Matt Davies Dr Ian Birchmore Dr Stijn Derammelaere Aberystwyth University Ghent University

Establishing a wider environment in which to The DUGA mobile and education application embed a simulation to maximise learning and deepen the student experience in the final year of an accounting and finance degree Alice Shepherd, Dr Richard Crossley Dr Patricia Everaert, Emiel Sanders Ghent University

Embedding commercial skills for finance Using Monopoly to engage students online professionals via a business simulation

13.50 5 minutes to allow delegates to move rooms

13.55 Plenary Session 3: Concept Mapping and Playful Learning through ‘Colour Accounting’

Toby York, Middlesex University

14.25 Formal Launch of the GSAFE Network

Professor Andy Lymer, Aston University

14.30 Close

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