Industrial Visit to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Groupon, Baker Tilly and KPMG

One of our Sunway CPA Australia Student Charter (SCSC) objective is to enhance students' experience in related field of Accounting by organizing industrial talks or fields trips. Last semester, SCSC had succesfully organised 4 industrial visits for students in Sunway University which included the visit to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) on the 19th of July, Groupon on 2nd of August, Baker Tilly and KPMG on 16th and 23rd of August respectively. SCSC members had put in a lot of effort making sure that the industrial visit series will run smoothly. Also, many thanks the companies for their cooperation as well as their generosity for allowing us to visit them.

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Malaysia

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is a network of firms in 158 countries with close to 169,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, tax and advisory services. PwC Malaysia has played an integral part in the growth and progress of Malaysia since 1900. Today, PwC Malaysia work with many large multinationals, public sector entities and Malaysian companies, delivering solutions to them through its assurance, tax and advisory services.

Address: 1 Sentral, Kuala Lumpur Sentral, 50706 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Phone: 03-2173 1188
Email: pwcmsia.info@my.pwc.com

Website: http://www.pwc.com/my/en

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pwcmsia

Groupon Malaysia

Groupon - the fastest growing company in the world launched Groupon Malaysia in the major cities of Malaysia in 2011, after three explosive years in the global market. It is the first deal-based website of its kind. Join the social movement trend and turn to Groupon Malaysia as your personal city guide. Groupon Malaysia sends you on the direct route to the leading leisure, entertainment, food and drink, health, beauty, adventure activities and more in your city.
Phone: 03-7949 0888
Website: http://www.groupon.my
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/grouponmy

Baker Tilly Malaysia

 Established in 1978, Baker Tilly is the sixth largest accounting and business advisory firm in Malaysia, with six offices across Malaysia and an office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Led by a leadership team of 24 key partners with over 500 professional staff, Baker Tilly Malaysia provides high quality accountancy, business and financial advisory services to multinational corporations, organisations in the public sector, and smaller independent enterprises. Baker Tilly seek to provide professional and meaningful advice that will add tangible value to your business and in achieving its goals.
Phone: 03-2297 1000
Website: bakertillymh.com.my
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BakerTillyMalaysia

 KPMG Malaysia

KPMG in Malaysia provides audit, tax and advisory services. Established in 1928, not only is its firm one of the oldest in Malaysia, but also the oldest KPMG firm in the Asia Pacific region. With approximately over 1,800 staff positioned in 10 offices nationwide, its goal is turn knowledge into value for the benefit of its clients, its people, and the capital markets.

Address: Level 10, KPMG Tower, First Avenue, Bandar Utama, 47800 Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

Phone: 03-7721 3388

Website: http://www.kpmg.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KPMGMalaysia

Overall, all the companies welcomed us with open arms and led us to the discussion halls, meeting rooms and so on for the various briefing sessions. The speakers from each company gave a heap full of useful information and knowledge about their individual companies. After which, the floor was open to students to ask questions. Some light refreshments were given by a few of the companies to fill the student’s hungry tummies. Throughout this series, many students were required to fill in M100 surveys conducted by GTI Media. We presented each individual companies with a basket of fruits as token of appreciation after the survey was done.

The staffs in-charge gave us a tour around each office where we could examine the surroundings and see other staffs members doing their work. Participants were amazed about the atmosphere and the surroundings of the companies where they took a lot of pictures and some even asked questions along the way. Time was a big constraint to us, therefore some tours had to be cut short. With that, we ended our IV Series 2013.

In a nutshell, the objective of this series was to acknowledge Sunway students about the business world and provide them with the opportunity to gain insight knowledge of the various companies, at the same time creating awareness about SCSC club. Majority of the participants gave many positive feedbacks and the negative feedbacks will be reference to improve our next industrial visit series. To all the companies that we visited, SCSC club would like to once again say thank you for this delightful and yet knowledgeable event and we hope that we will have the opportunity to visit again in the future.

Written By: Chang Yan Ee (Lydia), Sharmilla Shakilla Arumugam, Lisa Nova and Yeni Chandra
Editor: Alice Tan & Ashly