Soshanguve author marries learning accounting and poetry
Botshelo Mthomboti (20) wrote A Black Child Transformed By Accounting to help those struggling with accounting learn the subject through poetry.
A young girl from Soshanguve Block FF has introduced a fun way of learning accounting to make it fun for anyone interested in the subject.
Botshelo Mthomboti (20) wrote a book A Black Child Transformed By Accounting which seeks to help those who are struggling with accounting learn it through poetry, a novel way of learning the subject.
According to the author, growing up in a toxic background and not having the courage to speak inspired her to write poems which ended up giving birth to the book.
“I come from a very dysfunctional family, it was toxic and I wasn’t brave enough to talk to anyone. Instead, I wrote poems that reflected how I felt and that’s how I was healed,” she said.
After realising how good and therapeutic her poems were, she decided to combine her love for accounting and poetry to introduce a new way of learning.
“Accounting has always been that field people are fearful to venture into and I wanted to change that and that’s how I came up with the book,” she said.
From October 2020 to June 2021, Mthomboti wrote her book.
She said the book was well received by the consumers but some chartered accountants were shocked.
“They were like ‘no, that’s impossible, how can combine poetry and accounting, it’s not something doable’ until they read the depreciation calculation and realised that I was doing wonders,” she said.
She said the depreciation calculation is one of the hardest calculations for accounting students.
“I also had a problem with it but not now,” she added.
She said teachers have been reaching out to her and using her book during accounting classes.
“I remember this one teacher who bought a book and she asked one of her learners to read a poem in front of the whole class. They had fun. It’s kind of like bringing that humorous atmosphere while learning,” she said.
She admitted that it wasn’t easy to write this book.
“I’m not going to lie, it wasn’t easy combining the two but I tried to squeeze in some formulae in there to accommodate the accounting part and poetry,” she said.
She said once a reader knows a poem by heart, a calculation will be easy.
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