MAA Assurance Career Talk Report

On the 29th of April 2009, CPAASC have organized a career talk given by MAA Assurance Chief Consultant, Mr James Bong. A total of 104 students attended this event which was held in B006.

The title of the topic was "The Seed of Greatness in You" where the speaker talks about the importance of doing an early financial planning will benefit our future throughout all stages of our life.

Mr James Bong also state the importance of taking life insurance policies, and to do so earlier. Thus the topic is presented as we the young people should take initiative to have a good financial planning and take insurance policies to ensure our livelihood and care for our love ones. Moving on the pictures...

Lilian giving her welcoming speech for the event~


Students listening attentively to....


Mr Alexander Ng, giving his introduction on what MAA Assurance is all about


Moving on with the speaker, Mr James Bong


Appreciation gifts to MAA Assurance speaker for the day..


Not forgetting Mr Alexander too~


After the talk ended, the students are scrambling towards the food outside, and not forgetting to write down their attendance and also collecting the Appreciation certificates.


'May I get your autograph please?' XP Just kidding, Choulyin taking down the names for certificates collected..


And here writing down their attendance... Don't forget to do this in our event! Crucially important, because here is where evaluate whether you're eligible for the certificates or not..


After all that (phew!) the committee group together for a photo session with the people from MAA Assurance. A big thank you for MAA Assurance, and to our members, don't forget to join in our next event in the month of May!

MAA CAREER TALK 2009

MAA CAREER TALK 2009

Date: 29^th April 2009

Time: 2.30pm - 4:30pm

Venue: Lecture Hall B006 (Block B)

CPAASC would like to inform you about our upcoming Career Talk which will be held next Wednesday afternoon.

We have invited speakers from MAA Assurance to give a talk about the career opportunities. We really hope to see you there in the career talk. Do bring along your friends who are interested too. Refreshments will be provided.

Besides, we will be having a Certificates of Appreciation Ceremony to those who have qualified from the previous year. You know who you are! Looking forward to see you all!

Regards,

CPA Australia Student Charter 2009

(Swinburne Sarawak)

Club Exhibition - March 2009

During the month of March, our club have participated in the Swinburne Club Exhibition held in Multipurpose Hall (MPH). It was a day where all the clubs showcase what their clubs are really about and CPAASC took part in this event as well.

The objective is to promote our club to the new coming Foundation Students and to gain them as new members. 

This picture was taken after the booth was set up. (In this picture, L-R: Choulyin(not facing the camera), Jacob and Tiong Yieng)

CPA Annual General Meeting 18/03/2009

Our AGM was held on the 18th March 2009 at Lecture Hall B004. There was a great turnout! The meeting was started by our emcees, Lilian and Ronnie with a welcoming speech from our new club president, Ms Choulyin Tan.

Choulyin giving her speech.

Our two emcees, Ronnie and Lilian starting off the event.

Can you spot our two club advisors among the crowd? :)

The meeting continued with some introduction to the events that we are going to organise this semester as well as a glimpse of the events we held in the past year.

Next was the qualifications of the certificate requirements for CPAASC, whereby students will have to:

1. Be a member for 2 consecutive/continuous semesters including paying for registration of RM5 per semester.
2. Have been actively involved in most of the events organized with at least 80% attendance.

To further explain, a member must at least attend 8 out of every 10 activities organised by our club. We also advise all members to register for the CPA Passport at this link:

http://www.cpacareers.com.au/apps/passport/JoinNow.aspx?type=tertiary

After that, some general announcements was made and the meeting was adjourned for registration and some light refreshment. Overall, the event went smoothly and we had over 200 students joining our club this semester.

One for the camera!

Our treasurers, Esther and Jacob practicing their penmanship :)

Members lining up to register and pay for their membership which is RM5 per semester. (Which is a standard for every club in Swinburne)

Some last reminders:

1. Do email your CPA Passport number to us ASAP for us to fully register your details. TQ!
   
2. Do keep track of upcoming activities in order to be able to attend - do look out for notices on our notice board which is situated on the left hand side of Level 2, Building G. Also, you can check this blog or add us as a friend on Facebook. So, stay in touch!

Thanks and have a nice day~!

Recruitment Drive 2009

Dear valued members,

Ever thought of being part of the CPAASC board of committees? Now's your chance!

We are organising a recruitment drive in search for potential candidates to join our committee for the next fiscal year of 2009/2010.

We would like to remind all students that this is an opportunity not to be missed as we are the only accounting-based club in Swinburne University of Technology and that we only conduct recruitment once every year. We encourage students from Year 1 and 2 as the term of service should be from a period starting Semester 1, 2009 until Semester 1, 2010. 

To those who are interested, kindly email us your name and personal details such as ID, course, year/semester and resume with your picture to cpaasc@gmail.com before 11th of April 2009.

Thank you and we look forward to receiving your emails!

Warmest regards, 

CPA Australia Student Charter 2009 

(Swinburne Sarawak)