Application for Learning Basic Stock Investment

• Main Author: Susijo, Arina Larasati
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: IRC 2015
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/15860/1/Arina%20Larasati%20Susijo_17743.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/15860/

Popularity of stock investment has been increasing to earn additional income nowadays. This brings along the educational issues for people, as well as UTP students, who interested to stock investment since they do not have investment class to introduce them about how to trade in stock investment and no reliable stock learning application found. This issue can be addressed by developing this project. The objective of this project is to build an application for learning basic stock investment from mobile devices where the people can learn anywhere and anytime. With scope of study is among financial management students in UTP. The methodology that is used is waterfall model. Some steps from planning, analysis, development, and implementation are sequentially developed. It will begin with choosing the source of material that will be acquired from chosen websites and books. After choosing best features from the resources and confirm with expert, contents of mobile application will be developed. The contents of learning in this application are divided into several levels to ease them understand stock investment better. After finishing all levels, simulation and additional material to be learned, such as additional reading material and videos, are provided in the application. At the end of this project, prototype and user acceptance testing are conducted. The application prototype that runs in android platform will be the findings of this project. The application’s home, level’s page, lesson page, and quiz page will be shown in this report. On the other hand, user acceptance testing is also conducted. The result of this testing is 93% of the users said that this application is help them to understand basic stock investment. It is concluded that the objective of this project is achieved. For future recommendation, the application should be developed for intermediate and advance level with broader users, under android and iOS platform.