KPMG Visit 08 August 2008

KPMG

Sharon + Fiona


Gerret + JunYin


Derrick..wonderful pose

Step in to KPMG

JunYin & Sharon

Mr IVO

Group Discussion

Talk by Manager

GIrls taking picture with MR IVO

Group Photo outside KPMG tower

The KPMG visit was held successfully on August 8 2008 from 2 to 5 pm at Menara KPMG. It was organised by Sunway Student Services Department (SSD) and Sunway CPA Australia Student Charter (SCSC). There were a total of 46 participants that comprised of 43 Victoria University (VU) students, 2 course coordinators and 1 School of Computer and Technology (SCT) student. The course coordinators present were VU lecturer Mr. Teoh and a SSD staff. All participants gathered at the Sunway foyer at 1.30 p.m. except 6 of them who drove by themselves.
Despite the bus driver getting lost midway, the group arrived KPMG at 2 pm. The group was lead to a meeting room on the 10th floor after gathering at the concourse area. Mr. Ivo from Human Resource divided the groups into groups of 6 and they were asked to list down any queries regarding KPMG.
Popular questions asked by the students included: “What is the requirement to work/get the internship in KPMG?” and “How much is the salary paid for the fresh employee/internship?” Other questions were mainly about the criteria to work abroad, employee’s welfare, working duration and also the details of each department in KPMG (Audit, Tax, and Advisory).
The partner of KPMG’s advisory department answered the student’s questions and proceeded to present a short slide show on working at KPMG. It provided clearer answers to the student’s questions. The topic of the presentation was about “How to develop individual’s career in KPMG.” A refreshment break was provided at 4 pm outside the meeting room and students were given the opportunity to interact freely with KPMG managers from different departments.
Ms. Lim Synn Li and Mr. Ivo provided a tour around the KMPG office after the refreshments. The group departed KPMG at 5pm after taking from group shots.
Questionnaire Report:
Majority of the participants thought highly of the KPMG visit. They had a clearly idea on an accountant’s working life, current job opportunities, developments and innovations in the accounting industry after being exposed to one of the Big 4 accounting firms. They noticed that KPMG cares about their worker’s welfare as well as their work performance as the staff participates in many non-work related activities.

Edited: Diana YS Lim

Taman Negara Trip 25th-27th July 2008 (photo updated)

Welcome to TAMAN NEGARA

Arrived at JETTY

Don't jump, Sharon!!

Nusa Holiday Village

Miss KUAN & JunYin

Peace & Smiling

Before hiking BUKIT WARISAN

Below: The Abang (green shirt) was our guidance

Peak - 383 metres height

VU Semester 2 Students

SCSC 2008 Committee

Group Photo

Ivan & Noelle

Smiling

l + ll + lll = llll ???

l + l + l + l = llll ^^

Canopy walkway - Samantha Ng

Canopy walkway - JunYin

Rapid Shooting: None of us could escape from getting wet!

Dragon Fruits ~~~

We Love Dragon Fruit!

Yummy

Beautiful colour

Diana with 2 dragon fruits

Sharon

Fiona

We get it!!!!

Taman Negara Trip Report


The Taman Negara Trip (25-27 July 2008) was organized by Sunway CPA Australia Student Charter (SCSC) and partly sponsored by CPA Australia. It was a 3 days 2 nights trip for 40 students and 1 CPA officer at one of the oldest rainforests in the world. Taman Negara was declared for conservation in 1938 and has become Malaysia's premier national park and the largest in the country covering over 4343 square kilometres (434,300 hectares) of primary forest, spans across three states: Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang. Taman Negara is the most extensive protected area of pristine, lowland, evergreen rainforest in the country.

Day 1

SPKG Tours Sdn Bhd has arranged the transport from Sun-U to Kuala Tahan Jetty. The journey has started at 9am and ended arriving at the jetty around 4.30pm with a lunch break before that. It took approximately 30 minutes for the whole group to reach Nusa Holiday Village by its boat service.

After everyone has settled down their luggage at hostel dormitory, an ice-breaking session took place for one and a half hour before dinner break at 8pm. There was an hour of Night Jungle Walk later after dinner. It was an experience to walk in the jungle at night to see the tropical forest night life. The tour guide has shown some unusual species of insects, flora and fauna. The most interesting part was the opportunity to see the glowing fungus and insects having luminescent chemicals which produce weak light. Unfortunately, the jungle walk ended with almost half of the group bitten by leeches.

Day 2

The first activity after breakfast was an three hours of jungle trekking through steep hill up to the top of Bukit Warisan, which is an ideal place for bird watching and a beautiful viewpoint as well. It was certainly the most exhausted activity in this trip, with people sliding down at steep area, with people pulling everything their hands can reach at in order to climb up a big step, and of course with people getting bitten by leeches again. However, it offered an opportunity to experience the extraordinary beauty of nature at its best especially the scenery at the top of the hill.

After the lunch time back at the village, the group was preceded by boat to experience the Canopy Walkway. It is a hanging bridge on the top layer of vegetation in the forest, with the height of 40m and 400m long with 9 platforms, which enables people to view the rich and diverse flora and fauna at the very summit of the forest. It is also recognized as the world’s longest hanging bridge.

Another exhilarating experience was the rapid shooting on boats. The boats traveled further up the Tembeling River from the village, and shot the seven sets of rapids. It was an exciting ride to experience the adrenalin rush of river water. As expected, a water war has started and everyone was trying to splash water to another, ended being wet from head to toe thorough soaking of river water.

The next activity was to visit the Orang Asli Settlement with wet clothes still on bodies. Orang Asli means the Original People in Malay language, lived in traveling lifestyle in Taman Negara and call themselves as Batek. Their settlements are often along some forest trails or rivers. In this visit, the group was educated with their unique lifestyle. Blowpipe weapon was demonstrated and tried by some of them.

Day 3

After breakfast, the group departed by boat to Kuala Tahan Jetty at 10am. There was a change in plan on the way back to Sun-U. A post-graduate from Victoria University has invited everyone to visit his dragon fruits plantation. He explained in details the cultivation of dragon fruits and insisted to give away some dragon fruits. He has also bought some durians, rambutans and mangosteen as a treat. The whole trip has finally ended when the bus arrived Sun-U at around 6pm.

CPA Network Lunch 18th July 2008

BBQ Night

On Friday, the 9^th of May 2008 Sunway CPA Student Charter held a farewell barbeque party at Lagoon View Condominium for all committee members that are in their final year or semester. The party was in conjunction with SCSC’s teacher advisor’s surprise farewell. Majority of the SCSC committee members were present and each contributed in making the party a huge success. Kudos to Ivan’s friends that acted as DJs for the night. They played a couple of Chinese, R n B and Jazz hits up until 1030pm. Preparation of heating the barbeque coal pit began at 6pm. There were some initial difficulties in getting the fire to start due to lack of experience and the absence of a fire starter. However, after a good hour of burning tones of newspapers and rapid fanning, we got the fire started. At 7 pm, which was the official starting time, most of the guests began flooding in with Dr. Foo appeared shortly afterwards and the barbequing of hickory-smoked chicken wings and drumsticks began.

We started off with Samantha’s delicious macaroni and cheese, Diana’s cucumber and egg sandwiches and various crisps purchased by Elaine, Diana, Jiana, Aifei and Derrick while waiting for the chicken. The highlight of the evening was watching Evana, Dr. Foo and Jiana perform the ‘chicken dance’ and Yvonne and Sharon’s stingray that was shipped all the way from Kota Kinabalu. Dr. Foo left after the committee sang him a ‘Happy Farewell’ song and obligatory photo taking sessions.

Majority of the SCSC crew stayed on partying and cleaning until 11.45 pm. By the end of the night, most of us were soaked wet thanks to being thrown into the condominium swimming pool but everyone had a great time getting stuffed on chicken meatballs, sausages, crisps, marshmallows, chicken wings and drumsticks, stingray, pasta, cake, jelly, vodka and sandwiches.