Great Eastern Industrial Visit (Sem 1, 2015)

          On the 27^th of March, Sunway CPA Australia Student Charter (SCSC) organized an industrial visit for Sunway students to Great Eastern Insurance Company. We departed from Sunway University at 1.20 pm and reached Menara Great Eastern in Jalan Ampang at 2.30 pm. 

          Great Eastern is the top insurance company in Malaysia. It was established in 1908. Great Eastern’s slogan is ‘Life is Great’. To date, Great Eastern has 21 operational branch offices. Their products include life insurance plans, investment-linked plans, mortgage protection, business protection, employee benefits, medical insurance and group health benefit schemes. Great Eastern Life Assurance (Malaysia) Berhad is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Great Eastern Holdings Limited (GEH) and its ultimate holding company is Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited (OCBC).

          When we arrived at the Menara Great Eastern, they welcomed us and led us to the Auditorium 2 for registration. The seminar then started with Mr. Dennis introducing Great Eastern, followed by the second speaker who briefed us about the history of Great Eastern. The following speaker, 
Mr. Alex showed us the marketing side of Great Eastern. After the introduction session there were question and answer session. Prizes were given for those of us who were able to answer the questions. The Q and A session was very well received.

 

          After the seminar we were led to the cafeteria for tea break. Varieties of food were served specially for us. Our industrial visit ended soon after our tea break. We conveyed our appreciation and bid goodbye to the Great Eastern team for their hospitality and thanked everyone from Great Eastern for making our visit a meaningful one. Finally we left Great Eastern building and made our way home around 5.30 pm.

         All of us agreed and concluded that we have met the objective of the industrial visit. Sunway students now have a more in-depth knowledge as to the working environment in Great Eastern. We believed these invaluable knowledge has enable to more or less visualize the working environment in the corporate world. Overall, the industrial visit to Great Eastern was a great experience and we noted the areas of improvement needed. Once again, we would like to thank Great Eastern for such an exciting and memorable trip. We would also like to thank all 58 participants.

Address   :Menara Great Eastern
                  303 Jalan Ampang
                  50450 Kuala Lumpur

Contact   : 03-4259 7888

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreatEasternLifeMY
Website   : https://www.greateasternlife.com/my/en/personal-insurance.html

Written by: Yap Chew Kee

Edited by  : Goh Jong Kit and Nicole Chew E- Wen

Baker Tilly Industrial Visit (Sem 1, 2015)

          Our main objective to this visit is to enhance our knowledge on the corporate world. We believe that Baker Tilly Company is capable to provide us with the required information, which will enable us to understand the functional systems and work procedures in the organization. Also the visit provides good opportunities for students to understand the management of Baker Tilly in terms of auditing and human resource.

          The visit was organized by SCSC on 13^th March 2015. A total of 41 participants including 3 SCSC members led by our lecturer Miss Fong visited Baker Tilly Monteiro Heng (Baker Tilly).The team gathered at the foyer in front of the Information Centre around 1.00 pm.

          Attendance was taken followed by group photos before we depart to the destination located in Bangsar South City, Kuala Lumpur at 2.30 pm. Upon our arrival we were greeted by representatives of Baker Tilly then ushered to the main office. We were seated in a room filled with goodie bags.

          We were welcome with an opening speech by one of the Director of Baker Tilly. The speech includes a brief history and background of Baker Tilly. According to the Director Baker Tilly is the 6^th largest accountancy and business advisory firm in Malaysia. Established since 1978, they have continuously built Baker Tilly on their core values of Professional Integrity and Innovation. The mission of the company is to bring world-class capabilities with local understanding when serving their clients from diverse industries.  They aim to exceed every client’s expectation with their unflinching commitment to excellence and to achieve their goal of becoming the preferred choice among clients and young talents. Baker Tilly mainly provides services on audit and assurance, tax and advisory, corporate advisory, forensics and investigation, corporate recovery, restructuring, and insolvency management.

          The informative briefing was followed by an interesting Q and A session. We were then divided into two groups and each consists of 20 people who were then led by the staff of Baker Tilly for a company tour. The tour started at the Auditing department. Information as to the function of an audit staff was shared with us. We also had the opportunity to meet the partners of the company. We then adjourned to the Advisory Department to understand the culture of the company. From our observation the culture and outlook of both departments bears no resemblance. While the Auditing Department appears serious and stressful however the Advisory Department seems lively and noisy. A point worth noting by all of us! 

          After the tour sessions all of us gained better understanding and knowledge as to the functions of an auditing firm. Light refreshment was served after the tour.

          Our visit ended with a fruit basket presented by our lecturer to the representative of Baker Tilly as a token of appreciation. We headed back by coach and arrived at Sunway University around 
5.45 pm.

          All of us were grateful that we had given the opportunity to visit Baker Tilly. Our knowledge gathered during the visit to one of the biggest auditing firm in Malaysia will be put into good use.

Address   : Baker Tilly MH Tower, 

                   Level 10 Tower 1 Avenue 5, 

                   Bangsar South City

                   59200 Kuala Lumpur

Contact   : 03-2297 1000
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BakerTillyMalaysia/?fref=ts
Website   : http://bakertillymh.com.my/

Written by: Chan Yuen Jing

Edited by  : Goh Jong Kit and Nicole Chew E-Wen

CPA Australia Student Network Briefing ( Sem 1/2015 )

          The first CPA Student Network Briefing this year took place on 5 March 2015, Thursday, from 3.30 pm to 4.30 pm at Lecture Theatre 1, Sunway University, Kuala Lumpur. CPA Australia Student Network Briefing is organized on a per semester basis by Sunway CPA Australia Student Charter (SCSC) of which comprises of 35 talented and passionate students, dedicated to broaden students’ knowledge and experiences beyond in-class education through events and activities.

          The event was hosted by Caitlyn Wong Chai Qiao, a student ambassador of CPA Australia on Sunway Campus. Approximately 25 undergraduate students from varying majors and years took a step forward out of their rigid student life structure by participating the event to understand the next step of their lives after graduating.

          The well-structured session was made into a success with the help of all SCSC members but most importantly, the ever eye-opening sharing session by none other than the Relationship Manager of CPA  Australia in Kuala Lumpur, Ms Leong Pui Kuan. The event was organized to introduce to students the benefits and purpose of the Student Network by Chang Li Hong, President of SCSC; followed by Ms Leong Pui Kuan on the structure of the CPA Australia Program and the career benefits that lie before them with this professional qualification that is highly sought after by world renowned multi-national corporations.

Written by : Caitlyn Wong Chai Qiao 

Edited by   : Goh Jong Kit

House of Joy Sem 2'14

          Sunway CPA Australia Student Charter (SCSC) organized a meaningful Corporate Social Responsibility activity, meeting up with the orphans of House of Joy. This semester, SCSC members took this opportunity to celebrate Moon Cake Festival with the cheerful kids over there. It was held on 14th of September 2014 (Sunday) from 3pm to 9pm where at Taman Paik Siong, Puchong.

            Before the day, SCSC members were busy preparing materials to celebrate Moon Cake Festival, i.e. candles, lanterns and activity games. We planned to play the candles and lanterns with kids at the park nearby the House of Joy. Food and beverages were also prepared by SCSC members as in the style of “potluck”. Furthermore, we received some sponsored items from companies to donate to the orphans in House of Joy for the purpose to support their basic needs and wants. The fundraising items were 20 pieces of moon cakes, 10 units of plastic pails and 5 dishwashing liquid.

            During the day, all SCSC members gathered at Sunway Campus at 3pm and departed at 3.30pm. There were 35 SCSC members and 15 kids from House of Joy and their age were around 10-11 years old. When we reached the House of Joy, tasks were allocated systematically. Partial SCSC members cleaned the park and eating area as well as prepared the food and beverages. On the other hand, other SCSC members were meeting up with those lovely and charming kids. When the kids saw SCSC members walking towards their house, their faces showed cherry smiles and kept waving their hands to us.

            The bonding sessions were cut short this time because that was not the first time visiting them. SCSC members played together with kids and shared their stories in these past few months. The House of Joy has adopted chicks and those kids were so excited to share their experience with SCSC members on how they take care of the chicks and even named those chicks too. The kids looked so attentive and careful when they were looking after the chicks.

After a session of playing in the House of Joy, SCSC members brought those kids out to the park nearby and started the games session. The kids were so energetic and ran actively around the park. We prepared some game activities such as frog jumping, charades, freeze dance and Simon Says. Children were very creative on the games as they changed the instructions and style of playing the games. The creativity of theirs   brought us laughter and joyful which would melt our heart.

The game session ended an hour later, kids were arranged to clean their hands and ready for dinner. Our SCSC members prepared fried meehun, fried rice, curry chicken, fried chicken, hard boil eggs, cucumber, cabbage, fruits and Ribena drinks. Besides, our advisor Ms.Fong ordered 7 boxes of pizza to all of the orphans of House of Joy. It was an enjoyable moment as we could eat and chat together, sharing our past experiences and thoughts of future. All of the members in House of Joy enjoyed the dinner prepared by SCSC members as they showed thumbs up to those SCSC members who prepared the food.

Later, the kids started to help to clean up after meal and we started our main activity immediately which is celebration of Moon Cake Festival with candles and lanterns. Kids were extremely happy to see lanterns in different cartoons’ theme such as Minions, Powerpuff Girls, Princess and etc. They were so contented on holding the lanterns and playing with candles in the night. Of course, there were SCSC members by their side to guide them the proper way of playing candles and lanterns. Furthermore, we also explained the story of Moon Cake Festival to the kids to teach them the origin of this festival.

Time passed fast and the evening time of spend with kids were passed. From the order of person-in-charge, we had to send those kids home on time as we promised earlier. Those kids were so reluctant when we told them that we are leaving soon. Some kids also asked when will be the next visit again.

As a conclusion, we should continue to visit and support House of Joy in the future. Different activities can be conducted where most importantly is to pass the positive thinking to them. Last but not least, we managed to take lots of photos with them throughout the whole evening and keep them as memorable memories.

Written by : Nyoke Yee

Edited by   : Soo Lim Lee (Enaly)