Accounting Students’ Perception Towards Virtual Money as Mobile-Payment During Covid-19 Pandemics: Evidence from Indonesia

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210304.055How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Accounting, Student, Virtual Money, Covid-19, Indonesia

Abstract

Virtual money as payment method plays crucial roles during the covid-19 pandemics. A plenty of research revealed the use of virtual money as the dynamic development of payment methods last ten years. Yet, little has been known from the accounting students’ perception about the virtual money during the covid-19 pandemics. Thus, this research was attempted at portraying accounting students’ perception toward the virtual money use during the Covid- pandemics. Online survey and interview were conducted to collect the data. The findings show that despite their benefits which give ease and practicality of usage, using virtual money is perceived negatively contribute to criminal acts. Benefits from discount and voucher facilities also emerge during data analysis. In addition, promoting disrupted financial literacy is also resented and discussed.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - R Destiana
AU  - R Wiradina
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/03/08
TI  - Accounting Students’ Perception Towards Virtual Money as Mobile-Payment During Covid-19 Pandemics: Evidence from Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Paris Van Java International Seminar on Health, Economics, Social Science and Humanities (PVJ-ISHESSH 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 260
EP  - 262
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210304.055
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210304.055
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