Accounting I (2 º Sem 2019/2020)

Dear Students,

Regarding the appeal period (ER – “Época de Recurso”) Accounting 1 exam, please read carefully the information below:

1. The exam will take place on July 8^th 2020 at 9 a.m, but you should be on Team’s group at 8h40 a.m. sharp.

2. You all have been assigned to a group on Teams created especially for the exam. The two groups are named:

You must verify that you have access to one of these groups (it should automatically show on your teams’ list after you log in).

3. Before starting the exam, you should log out other personal accounts that you may have (go to browser definitions), close the browser and log in with you ISEG account, so as to make sure that you can access Forms and submit the exam with the correct identity. Please be aware that the Safari browser has been showing some incompatibility with Forms, and therefore we recommend you use Edge, Edge Chromium, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, by this order of preference.

4. According to the honor code commitment defined by ISEG, that you have all signed, each student will do the exam without resorting to other people or providing information to other people.

5. The exam is composed of 4 distinct parts. Each part is accessed through a link answered through MS Forms.

6. The exam will have video-surveillance. This means that when you enter the meeting on Teams you should have both your camera and microphone switched on, and keep them switched on during the entire exam. Due to privacy issues, this is not mandatory. However, in case you choose not to have your camera and/or microphone switched on (or disable any of them during the course of the exam) you will be afterwards subject to an oral examination. In case your computer doesn’t have a camera enabled you may connect to Teams using your smartphone.

7. In case there is some background noise, the professor conducting the exam surveillance will disconnect the microphones. This should not be done directly by the students.

8. You should have with you: paper, a pen/pencil, a calculator and an identification document (showing your full name and a photograph).

9. The students’ identification begins at 8:45h a.m.: when hearing his/her name, the student should respond and exhibit his/her identification document to the camera to be validated. In case any of the students is not identified before the exam begins, due to lack of time, this will be done in the interval between each exam part. All students must be identified in order to avoid having the exam annulled.

10. The students’ identification stops at 8:55h a.m.

11. At 8:59h a.m., you will visualize a file named “PART 1” with the name of all of the students by alphabetical order. You should click on the link that is in front of your name. Answers provided based on a link that is different from the link indicated to each student will not be accepted.

12. In case you have any difficulty accessing any part of the exam you should:

- Refresh the browser’s page;

- Go back on the browser’s page and try again;

- In case none of these attempts work, communicate the problem to the professor in charge of the surveillance (use Teams private chat to communicate with the professor).

13. The exam is composed of 4 independent parts. Between each exam part there will be a short interval.

14. You must keep track of time. The professors conducting the exam surveillance will warn students when there are only 5 minutes remaining, when there is only 1 minute remaining, and at the time the exam ends. This last warning means that the responsible professor will immediately disable responses for that exam part. In case the browser “freezes” you should refresh the page (key F5) until you get a confirmation of the submission.

15. The points attributed to each question will be indicated along with the question.

16. In Part 1, for the “option questions”, incorrect answers deduct ¼ of the points attributed to each question. This information will be indicated on the heading of Part 1. In case you do not wish to provide an answer to the question, you should choose the option “I do not wish to provide an answer to this question” that will be available as one of the options in each question.

17. In Part 2, for the “open answer questions” (calculation), you must show all of the calculations that justify your reasoning and indicate clearly what is your final answer. Answers that provide only the final result, without any calculations supporting the answer provided, will not be accepted even if the final result is correct.

18. In Part 3, for the “open answer questions” (recordings), there is no need to present the calculation of the amounts. You should use the following structure for the recordings: “Account title/name, (D) or (C), and Amount” (for example: write “Trade Accounts Receivable (C) 100, Cash (D) 100” for a recording where you credit Trade Accounts Receivable by 100 and debit Cash by 100).

19. In Part 4, the “open answer questions” are related to a Trial Balance. In case you are not able to visualize the Trial Balance it will be available on the “EXAM” folder on AQUILA (file “Trial Balance”).

20. After submitting each exam part, the student will receive, automatically, an e-mail confirming submission.

21. In case you wish to quit the exam you should send an e-mail to fbasto@iseg.ulisboa.pt indicating you wish to quit.

22. Only when the professor indicates that the meeting is over should you switch off your camera and leave the meeting on Teams.

Good Luck!

The Accounting 1 team