ACCA would like to invite you to their first Career Fair in Kuching, the ACCA Careers 2009.
Theme: Accountants for Business: Realising Career Ambitions
Date: 14 November 2009
Venue: Hilton, Kuching
Highlights of the event:
Career Opportunities– showcases of leading employers & exciting job opportunities
Career Development– updates on learning anddevelopment support for accounting andfinance professionals in all stages of theircareer
Career Progression- tips to pass the ACCA examinations, managing challenges of studying part-time and meeting the requirements for membership
Note:
Everyone (members and non-members) is welcome!
No registration fee is required
Limited seats
First come first serve basis for registration
Transportation will be provided
For those who are interested, please kindly email us your name and personal details, such as your student ID and contact number, to cpaasc@gmail.com by 11 November 2009.
After an arduous and painful task of preparing and sitting for the finals...
would you like to have a time of total fun, relaxation and adventure ?
Make way for this~!
Click on image to enlarge =)
Uh oh, The poster are the the details for our upcoming event, the
CPASUMMERBOOT CAMP2009~!
We are delighted to inform you that we are organizing the event from the 7th – 9th December 2009 themed “Wit Beyond Measure, Mapping the Future of Success.” This year, there will also be an Appreciation Dinner for the outgoing committees, themed“Colours of theRainbow”
This three day, two night event will see us at Damai Beach Resort, where we will be playing our games which include beach games, treasure hunt, obstacle course and so on. All accommodation, transportation and food will also be provided by us!
We are going to open up the Registration booth for the upcoming event, so....
Please pay attention and spend a few minutes reading on the details below:
CPA SUMMER BOOT CAMP Registration Booth
Date: 11-13 November 2009 (Wednesday till Friday)
Time: 9.00am - 4.30pm
Place:B003 (NEW VENUE)
Price: RM 100 per person
* Please note that for the price of RM100, we are covering all transportation, accommodation and food expense for 3 days 2 nights at Damai Beach Resort.
* Certificates will be provided from CPA Australia (Malaysia Division) for attending this event.
* Please note that for this event, we do not allow reservations to be made via email. First come, first serve!
*Kindly pay attention that, this event is for MEMBERS of CPAASC 2009 ONLY.
*The number of place is limited, thus it is best for you to sign-up early~!
So what are you waiting for? Undecided? Come on, it's an opportunity best not to be missed~!
P/S: If you want to know more of this event, or have any enquiry, please come over to our booth on the registration day! We will try our best to answer on any enquiries possible ^^
*note: to our readers, sorry for this late post. I don't want to give reasons, just it is my fault that i forgot to post it up and left it in the drafts. Sorry yea > < ~Shariman*
Last Saturday, CPAASC 2009 organised the CPA ‘Around the World’ Race with 9 teams participating the event. Several stations were set up around Swinburne, including classrooms, the library, outstanding buildings and the car park in Swinburne. They were turned into ‘countries’ of the world, with SwinburneInternationalAirport a.k.a. Lecture Theatre 4.01 being the main meeting point.
There were 10 stations representing 10 countries in all, and each stations poses unique challenges to each teams to complete.
Registration- picking the team colours.
Africa "Catch the Catch" (Station: behind Lecture Theatre)
Teams needed to fulfil three tasks; the most challenging one was to catch the fish in the basin, while the second task was to use your foot to search for the orange-coloured marble and thirdly, to pick out two 1-sen coins from the cloudy water basin.
Brazil "Balloon Throwing" (Station: 3rd floor corridor between Block B & E)
This is by far the most challenging one, where no teams managed to catch 5 out of 7 attempts. All of the teams have to receive penalties to make up for the lost balloons.
New Zealand "Ping Pong Search" (Station: old staff car park, the old CMM building)
Teams at this station needed to search for the ping pong ball in the basinful of flour by blowing it! Then, they had to scoop the ping pong ball up using a spoon with their mouths and to walk holding the spoon and ping pong ball by mouth, towards the designated area.
Canada "Find the Flag" (Station: Multistory Car park)
The taxing part of the races, as teams’ gruellingly climb up the various levels of the multi-storey car park in search of the coloured flags that can be at any floor, at any nook and cranny(Sorry no pics =/ ).
Singapore “Match the Nations” (Station: Level 2, Block G)
One of the easiest station out there, where teams need to find out what countries are the flags representing. Some teams managed to find out which countries in very short time, thanks to some 'map' in one of the lecturer's room ^^ (Sorry no pics =/ )
Japan " Find the Car?" (Station: between hostel and Chillipeppers)
Simple as a front, this station proved challenging as the location of thw car was not given, but instead they were told the region where the car could be located! Some teams had to walk from one side of the station to the car and back again. It was not that simple as it sounded.
India "Body Part Balloons" (Station: along corridor between Block B and Block G)
Teams needed to divide themselves into pairs, pick lots to choose which body part combination to use to carry the balloon to and fro. After completing their rounds, the teams then have to burst the balloon by using their body part that they drew from the lots.
At this, let the imagination run wild on how they are able to complete the task as some unfortunate teams drew combination of stomach- butt, knee-knee, and face-butt.
Australia "Food Challenge" (Station: Manna Zone, new Cafe)
Teams are to divide themselves into pairs, the same as at the India Station and fulfil all three challenges:
First, dry biscuits and chilli sauce;
Second, Drinking Challenge, and
lastly; sandwich of choice.
Europe "Multi-legged Race" (Station: Multi Purpose Hall)
For this station, each member was tied together at their legs and must complete the whole course of walking towards their objectives. At each designated stop area, they have to decrease a leg to continue the race towards the goal. This multi-legged race requires persistent teamwork, and well, a bit of patience to complete the whole course.
North Atlantic Ocean "Book Search" (Station: Library)
Teams need to copy down the reference code of text books given by the station master and then find the books and bring it to him. This can be considered as one of the easiest task as it was done in the cool, cool library.
After a gruelling day of highs and lows, running up and down searching for stations and completing the tasks, these are the teams that made it to the top and able to ‘conquer the world….’
In Third Place, Roti Canai Telur Bawang Team!
Second Place, The Gamers Team!
Finally, The Master and Conqueror of the ‘World,’ the Explorer Team~!
Congratulations to all the winners and participants! We are very happy with the participation rate and hoped that you had fun through out the entire process.
So now, don’t forget, there are two more upcoming events; ACCA Careers 2009 and CPA Summer Boot Camp. See you there~!
CPA Australia is holding an OpenDay in Kuching on 7 November 2009 (Saturday).
The OpenDay is particularly geared to students who are not specialising in accounting in their degree (i.e. BBus but non-accounting major, or IT Degree or Engineering Degree). They can still study to be a professionally qualified accountant. CPA Australia will advise you during the OpenDay. Please bring along copies of your qualifications (academic transcripts) for assessment.
Ladies and Gentlemen! May I have your attention please..?
Are you interested in joining us as one of the committee?
Are you interested in organising events with us?
Willing to take up challenges, expanding your knowledge and know how?
Looking for opportunity to apply your skills and working as a team?
Then..., pause! Don't stop! Read carefully the following words...
Sign up for our Recruitment Drive Interview. The d-day will be on the 17th of October 2009.
Please send your resume to cpaasc@gmail.com by 10th October 2009. So, you might be thinking, what your resume needs? Details as follows...
1. Resume must be in soft copy (duh) 2. Current passport/ID picture attached with the resume 3. Contents: Personal ID, Skills, Qualifications, Activeness in past and current clubs and society 4. And...prepare yourself well
Dear members and loyal readers, the report of the Conference just came in (albeit very slow, sorry about that > <) We are very happy to announce that CPAASC have successfully organized the CPA AUSTRALIA UNDERGRADUATE CONFERENCE 2009 with the theme "Challenge the Boundaries" on Saturday, the 12 September 2009 where over 300 students have attended this huge event.
It was a great honour for us to be bless with exciting speakers, the first was the CEO of Money Tree Asia Pacific Limited, Mr Michael Reyes, the Representative from CPA Australia, Malaysia Division, Mr Gerard Fernandez and Representative from CPA Australia, Council Member of CPA Australia Malaysia Division, Dr. Edward Lim. Their presence is highly appreciated as they gave us a full serving of goodness while willingly freeing up their schedule for the day and not to forget to share with us a lot of meaningful experiences and knowledge of the corporate world.
Flow of event~
Registration of participants was being done at the Swinburne Block B Lobby. Can you see the crowd??? :D
Registration in progress...
So. Many. People. ^^
Launching of the Conference~
(Picture: from L-R: Lilian Lai, Jacob Kueh, Professor Debiprasad Dash, Dr. Edward Lim, Ronnie Teo)
Ah, the surprise of the event, the “Flight CPA1209” Conference Now Boarding! Briefing
(There is a video regarding the briefing in our CPAASC Facebook page. Feel free to have a look ^^)
Presentation of Mementous~
Prof. Debiprasad Dash presenting a memento to FCPA Dr. Edward Lim.
FCPA Dr. Edward Lim presenting memento to Mr. Michael Reyes.
First Session~
The first speaker slot for the conference was done by Mr. Michael Reyes who kindly share his experience and give his speech of the topic "Challenges in Entrepreneurship and How to overcome it." Basically Mr Reyes talks about maintaining positive attitudes whenever facing challenges, always be true with own judgment, balancing of family and career and not just letting ourselves go with flow and caught with the growing problems in our lives til it is too late.
The talk itself is approximately 3 hours long, but it proves valuable as the speech was very exciting as Mr Michael Reyes relates his own experiences and told some exciting stories on people he have met when addressing the crowd. The crowd is pretty much entertained with the various segments of the stories, and were not shy to participate in asking and answering questions by Mr Michael Reyes.
Second Session~
After the lunch, the second session of the conference started with the speech done by Dr. Edward Lim with the topic "Challenge the Boundaries". Dr Edward’s slot was slotted to the third session where the second slot was allocated to CPA Australia representatives, but since there was a bit of technical problem and without wasting time, CPA Australia kindly pass the floor to Dr Edward to present his speech.
Dr Edward mainly talks of the coming challenges on the role of graduates as the new entrants into the corporate world. Once entering into this world, the challenges will be great as we are leaving our comfort zones as students/undergraduates in the university into the world, where it is completely unknown and always revolving. Thus it will serve us well to have the right attitude and making the best decision within the pressure to do well in our working life.
Considering that it was already in the afternoon, and it was after the lunch period, understandably everyone is getting kinda of sleepy. This does not escape the eyes of our esteemed speaker, and he brought the matter into his own hand by asking….
Everyone to stand up and do some "exercise". Haha^^
Third Session~
The third speaker of the event was Mr. Gerard Fernandez. He gave his speech about "CPA Australia - The Global Professional Accountancy Designation for Strategic Business Leaders." Mr Fernandez gave a brief overview on what CPA is currently doing and the updates that now more people can join CPA passport programme, where it is now open to people in numerous field, not only from the Accounting field. There are certain steps to be taken to pursue the coveted CPA membership. In opening its doors to people around the world within various fields, this helps to promote CPA and gave more value to its members from the attain knowledge from various fields.
The end of the speech at around 3pm mark the end of the conference, and now some pictures to commit the memory of the event~
Group Pictures~
(Sorry the pictures' quality is low, but dont worry! Just upload them from our Facebook page ^^)
Thank you all for your participation and support, we, CPAASC appreciates the effort of our participants of the day, and not forgetting our helpers for the event. See you all in our next event, the upcomingCPA’s Around the World Race. Don't hesitate to sign up as soon as possible. Details will be up in the next post :)
Greetings from CPA Australia and CPA Australia Student Charter, Swinburne Sarawak.
We are please to inform you that the CPA Internship Program is now boarding. Meaningful and practical paid internship opportunities are available across a range of sectors and industries. The internship program will offer 8 to 12-week placements from November 2009 to March 2010. Online registration is available now at http://www.cpacareers.com.au/cps/rde/xchg/SID-3F57FECA-C596DB4F/careers/site/176_ENA_HTML.htm and it is free to register for all CPA Passport students.
Please do not hesitate to contact us at cpaasc@gmail.com or Mr. Edwin Wong atEdwin.Wong@cpaaustralia.
It is advised that all participants should come earlier, let's say a little after 8.00am so that the registration process gonna run smoothly (hopefully ><"..maybe)
It is with great pleasure for us to announce that we will be hosting the CPA Australia Passport Undergraduate Business Conference 2009 this semester, with the theme “Challenge the Boundaries!”
For this event, there will be a talk on entrepreneurship and how to face adversity and challenges with real-life experiences shared by MoneyTree. Besides that, CPA Australia, Malaysia Division will also be giving a talk on the CPA Program and how it can help your career after graduation. Apart from that, Dr Edward Lim, FCPA will also be giving us a talk on “Challenge the Boundaries”.
This event is open to all students of Swinburne Sarawak. So, if you are interested to sign up or if you have any further questions for us, we will be opening a booth at G Block LobbyonWednesday, 27th August 2009 to Friday, 29th August 2009from8:30 am to 4:30pmso do look for us!
NOTE: Registration using email is not entertained. Thank you!
On the 19th August 2009, on a hot Wednesday afternoon, the CPAASC committee has organized the very first event of the second semester, the Annual General Meeting Sem 2/2009. The purpose of the event is to welcome back the members and to welcome students who are interested in joining our club as member. The AGM also serve to let the new and the old members know of the upcoming events for this semester. Notably there are one major event worth mentioning, the CPA Australia Undergraduate Conference which is going to be held on the 12th September 2009.
Our president - Ronnie Teo giving his welcoming speech for the event.
Everyone paying their attention to what was presented by the speakers.
Our vice president - Jacob Kueh presenting the upcoming events and budget report of last semester.
Hard at work - Registration process for the club membership.
It was a big turn-up for the AGM, so thank you all for the continuous support~!
Up next: CPA Australia Undergraduate Conference 2009... Will you be there? :)
In this new semester, there is few noticeable changes in the CPA committees. Our past president, vice secretary and vice treasurer have stepped down from their post. Choulyin and Lenny have graduated and we all wish them good luck in their future endeavours. Esther have decided to concentrate on her studies and to give the club fresh faces to lead the club in the future. Apart from that, Ah Yieng has decided to continue her studies at the main campus in Melbourne, Australia. It was a sudden decision, and we will miss you. Really.
The new office bearer have been updated, so please have a look at the right column of the blog.
Putting those tearful farewell(if any) aside, this semester is gonna be packed with exciting, trip-worthy, major activities. So check the blog often, our facebook pages, emails and also be aware of any new notices of the upcoming CPA events! Don't forget!
Last semester, on the late afternoon of 15th of May 2009, the CPAASC have organized a trip to the RTM Kuching main office at Jalan P. Ramlee which is located just across Hopoh shopping mall. A total of 59 students including the CPA committee members have attended the event.
Upon arrival to RTM, we are welcomed by one of the RTM personnel and escorted to the meeting room to meet up with one of the senior manager who give us an overview on what RTM is all about. He also told of his experience in working in this field, where it is apparent that to get to where he is now, it takes years of working and involvement in different levels of broadcasting in radio, live shows and televisions just to be familiar with the whole thing.
After the talk, we were escorted to visit the recording department where RTM Kuching used to record their radio shows which is based on time slots. At the time, Sarawak fm were on air and we get to see how the dj interview one of the speaker of the day. After that we visited the Auditorium P Ramlee to look at the rehearsal for the Gawai celebration programme. According to the director, the props and recording the whole event which might be within the 10 minutes slots can cost up to approximately RM 20,000 and more. To ensure that there is no wastage for unnecessary footage, there are two time keepers who counted the time it takes to record the whole event.
After visiting the Auditorium, its time to go back. Before that, there are some group pics to be taken! So here they are, enjoy.. :)
