STIE Perbanas Surabaya is back to doing community service. Through the implementation team of the 2017 IBM (IPTEK for People) Program, STIE Perbanas held training on entrepreneurship and financial management for MSMEs on May 11, 2017, at Kedung Rukem-Gresik Village. With a total of 25 participants.

According to the Head of Community Service Division of STIE Perbanas Surabaya, Dr. Drs. Ec. Iramani, M.Sc., in his speech explained that the purpose of community service activities is to provide entrepreneurship training and record financial reporting arrangements for housewives who produce “Opak Jepit”. "We wish that this Opak Jepit business actor would be able to package and market the product as a unique food from Gresik Regency which has different characteristics from opak jepit producers in general," he explained.

Meanwhile, Prof. Dr. Tatik Suryani, MM., Psychologist., Conveyed that entrepreneurship is the secret to being a true entrepreneur. "First, dare to dream, because dreaming is free, why be afraid to instill in your mind you can become a big entrepreneur, get rid of the dream-destroying mentality like I have no capital, I have no connections and I have no talent. Second, dare to start, not to start means no results and no experience. The three dared to proceed. The four dared to fail, always take lessons from every failure.

According to Nurul Hasanah Uswati Dewi, SE, M.Si as the resource person who provided material on training on recording business financial reports, revealed the benefits of recording financial reports for businesses, namely to determine the selling price that will be charged to the customer, to monitor the realization of production costs, determine profits or loss of both orders and routine production.

One of the community service participants, Usman admitted that the material presented was very helpful in understanding how to market opaque flops products, especially since the IBM Community Service team helped design and make business cards for the opaque clamp business, with his assistance in making business card designs. "We hope that opaque flops products can expand the marketing communication network outside the city of Gresik," hoped Usman. (Eka.r)