Announcement: Recruitment Drive 2009

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

Don't know how to write a resume? Try asking from your seniors, or you can look at this link (http://www.bestsampleresume.com/student-resumes.html) as a guide.

If you still reading this, hurry up and sign up now! Don't just sit there and play facebook all day XD

CPA Australia Undergraduate Conference 2009

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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 upcoming CPA’s Around the World Race. Don't hesitate to sign up as soon as possible. Details will be up in the next post :)

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CPA Internship Program now boarding

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.

com.au
should you require further information.

Thank You.

A gentle reminder to all... ^^

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To all participants of CPA Australia Undergraduate Business Conference 2009, please be reminded that the event is on this Saturday, 12th of September.

The event will be held at the Lecture Theater L001 and the registration will be done at:

in front of the L001 itself...but~!

If raining, the lobby in front of B004 lecture hall at 8.30 am.

Conference T-shirt is gonna be given during registration, and its compulsory to wear the t-shirt for the event, so yeah, please keep this in mind~

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)

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CPAASC Presents: CPA Australia Undergraduate Business Conference 2009 !

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Greetings~ :)

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 Lobby on Wednesday, 27th August 2009 to Friday, 29th August 2009 from 8:30 am to 4:30pm so do look for us!


NOTE: Registration using email is not entertained. Thank you!


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AGM SEM2 2009 Report

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? :)

Annual General Meeting Sem 2 2009

Appreciation

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!

Past Sem Activity: RTM Trip

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.. :)

The pics:



Pics taken courtesy of Mr Chan Soon Hua.

P/s: Sorry for the late update > <"

CPA Kuching Member Centre Official Opening

On Monday night, the 10th of August, CPAASC committees were invited to the official opening of the new CPA Kuching Member Centre and the launch for the Book Drive for the less fortunate students of SJK(C) Chung Hua Sambir, Kota Samarahan. The event was officiated by the CPA Australia President, Mr Richard Petty and notable attendees are Ms Audrey Danasamy, President of CPA KL, Ms Christina Foo, the President, various members of CPA working committee and our advisors, Mdm Su Sueh Ing and Mr Chan Soon Hua.

One interesting feature is the changes in the requirements for the CPA Passport programme highlighted by the CPA President, Mr Richard Petty. From the gist of it, the new improved programme will enable more people to apply for the passport programme and become a CPA member. One example given by Mr Petty is that the old programme requirement used to stress the importance of accredited degree by the CPA to be able to apply.

The book drive is one of the initiatives by CPA Australia to improve people views on what the organisation is doing and also to improve their Corporate Social Responsibility. Mr Petty also stated that CPA Australia is the only one (among all the other accounting bodies) to have done this community service so far.



L-R: Dr Edward Lim, Nancy Chan, Kay Wee, Edina Chong, Lilian Lai, Mr Chan, Choulyin Tan, Mr Richard Petty, Ms Christina Foo, Ronnie Teo, Mdm Su, Jacob Kueh, Shariman, Ms Audrey Danasamy.

CPA Career Talk AND Networking Night!

Introducing for the first time ever, TWO events in one go!

Firstly is our  CPA Career Talk, with our main speaker flying all the way from Kuala Lumpur's CPA Malaysia Division headquarters, Mr Edwin Wong who will be talking about CPA, CPA Passport and such on the 22nd of May 2009 at 2:30pm at B004. Make sure you come and listen him out!

Also, at night we will be organising out Networking Night cum Installation Dinner! With our distinguished guests Mr Edwin Wong and also Dr. Edward Lim, together with some Swinburne alumni, the night is destined to be a blast! 

There are limited seats for Networking Night so please do ensure that you send your name, Student ID and also your CPA Passport number to us at cpaasc@gmail.com with the header "Registering for Networking Night 2009."

We would like to request all students to personally register using their own emails, and not to request friends to help them to email in one go as we have had registration problems with this manner. We would appreciate it if everyone could adhere to this request. TQ~!

Please register fast as we have LIMITED space for the dinner! Did we mention that we would be playing some ice-breaking games, dinner and also have a session with our Swinburne alumni and Dr Edward Lim on their experiences working in top firms such as Ernst & Young? 

So, why hesitate? Register for both events NOW! 

For further enquiries, please do not hesitate to email us as well.

Industrial Trip to RTM

What's new this month:


So hurry up! :)

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~!