This is an interesting piece from one of our reporters:

When I was still taking entrepreneurship and statistics classes, I yawned a lot. I was never a huge fan of numbers and finance terms.

Now, experts say they can teach these subjects and still put fun in the classroom. GE Money Bank Philippines and Let’s Go Foundation in collaboration with local experts come up with a financial education program called Women Entrepreneurship Program, and part of this program is FUNANCE.

Funance was developed by Maurino Bolante, a professor from the Asian Institute of Management. The idea is to use an interactive classroom activity approach to make learning easier for both teachers and students.

Using videos and online materials, Funance has modules on the basics of Balance Sheet and Income Statement, a case study entitled “Pasta At Iba Pa” where students are inspired to explore business ideas and a module that helps students make decisions on cash flow and cash management in a form of a board game.Schools that want to use the module may have the all the materials for free.

Too bad, this was formulated just after I survived the boring hours of my entrepreneurship class. I could have been one of those students rolling the dice on the Funance board game, finding the right definition of a concept with my classmates or pretending to be a tycoon–enjoying yet learning the lessons.

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