CPA Australia Passport Membership Briefing

Another successful CPA Australia Passport Membership Briefing was held in Audi 7 at Sunway University on 27th February 2013, from 3.30 pm to 4.30 pm. Members gathered in front of Audi 7 15 minutes before the event to set up the bunting of CPA Australia and socialize with participants. On top of that, Yee Kae Shen also took up the challenge to be the emcee of that day. 

Yee Kae Shen, our emcee

Our guest speaker for the talk, Ms. Leong Pui Kuan is the CPA Australia Relationships Manager in Malaysia. Not only that she has been supporting us for a long time, we are also working closely with her. There were approximately 25 participants which comprises of undergraduates from Victoria University and ACCA. 

During the talk, Miss Kuan explained the objectives and roles of CPA Australia and the steps needed to be taken to become a CPA passport member. From the information given by Miss Kuan, there will be exemption for Victoria University’s accounting students. However, it depends on the subjects the students are undertaking. Information regarding CPA programme and CPA passport membership was clearly explained during the briefing which enhances their interest in CPA professional qualifications. Besides that, she also introduced some of the successful CPA member around the world like Melisssa Claassen, who is currently the CFO of Adidas Group for Hong Kong and Taiwan.

The talk ended with a sharing session with some SCSC members sharing their experience in the club. This is to promote the club and attract new members. The members who were representing our club were Crsytal, Michael and Jef. Generally, some of their priceless experience during their university life were from their participation in SCSC. Praises from them truly boosted the confidence of the members.

Sharing Session

The event ended on time. Members managed to recruit 12 new members for CPA passport membership by giving out application forms to fill. Participants are welcomed to clarify their doubts by consulting Miss Kuan after the talk due to the time constraints during Q&A session. 

As SCSC members, we continued our tradition with a photo session in Audi 7 with Miss Kuan to celebrate the success of this event. It will be kept as a part of our memory with SCSC.

Photo Session 

As the saying goes, together we stand, divided we fall. This event could not have succeeded without the cooperation from all members.

Written by : Jef Yap

Edited by : Clover Chong

Industrial Visit To Bursa Malaysia

On 8th of March 2013, Sunway CPA Australia Student Charter (SCSC) organized an industrial visit to Bursa Malaysia. This trip was catered only to VU students of which the participants totaled up to 88 people.  Much preparation was done prior the event date by the members of SCSC Club to ensure the smoothness of the trip. On the day itself, participants came joyfully, prepared to enjoy and learn from this valuable experience. Most students were on time. The departure time was at 1.30 pm and the arrival time was around 2pm.

Upon arrival, the staffs of Bursa Malaysia, welcomed us with open hands and led us to the discussion room for a briefing session. Miss Claire enlightened the participants with information in relation to the securities exchange and the investing market environment. After presenting the basket of fruits as token of appreciation to Miss Claire, a Q&A session was opened up to the participants and was well utilized.

Token appreciation (Fruit Basket) from SCSC to Bursa Malaysia.

After the briefing, Bursa Malaysia provided light refreshments for the participants such as sandwiches, coffee and tea.

The participants were then brought to a room where part of the history of Bursa Malaysia is explained with visual aid. A big screen showing the flow of share price is situation in the middle of the room.

This is followed by a tour to the library of Bursa Malaysia. Participants were presented with a variety of financial books and magazines which was quite interesting especially to those majoring in banking & finance.

Last but not least, we were directed to the outside part of Bursa Malaysia building and were showed the sculpture of buffalo and bear, learning the hidden meaning of it. With that, we ended our visit to Bursa Malaysia.

As a whole, the objective of this trip was to provide VU students with the opportunity to gain insight knowledge of Bursa Malaysia, at the same time promoting and raising awareness about SCSC Club. Feedbacks from majority participants were positive and satisfying and will be use as reference to improve on our next industrial visit. To Bursa Malaysia, SCSC Club would like to present our utmost gratitude for this valuable opportunity and we hope that we will have opportunity to cooperate again in the future.

Written by : Michael
Edited by : Clover Chong 

Capital Gains Game

On  3^rd October 2012, an event known as the ‘Capital Gains Game’ organized by True North Asia was held from 8.30am to 2pm at UCSI University. There are a total of 79 candidates from Sunway who have registered for this event. Overall it was a very satisfactory result although there was a greater potential for us to achieve a greater amount of candidates registering for this event. 

The agenda for CGG is: 

8.30am   Registration

9.15am   Warm Up conducted by Jonathan Quek

9.30am   Speech conducted by AKPK

10.00am Capital Gains Game starts

12.00pm Light Refreshment

12.30pm Speech conducted by Wall Street Academy

1.00pm   Lucky Dreaw + Prize Giving + Token of Appreciation

1.20pm   Promotional video + Appreciation Video by AFSA (UCSI)

1.25pm   Group photo session + Sign out

On the event day itself, every candidates assembled at the foyer by 8am as there will 2 bus providing all of the candidates transportation from Sunway Campus for UCSI University. Every SCSC member who participated in this event are in charge of taking down the attendance when the candidates board the bus to avoid missing members. After a 40 minutes journey, the bus have finally reached UCSI University. All of the candidates were then asked to have a seat in UCSI’s main hall which was located in the South Wing.

The event began with a quick warm up session conducted by Jonathan Quek, the founder of True North Asia. After that at 9.30am, there was a short speech which was conducted by the representative from AKPK. The speech lasted for about half an hour. Before the game began, Mr. Jonathan Quek brief and taught us how to play this game as most of us have no knowledge about this game.

At 10am sharp, the game began as every participant was looking very anxious because they all want to win as there is a total of RM1,500 cash prize to be won. It was a very intense moment as cheers of joys and sigh of disappointment can be heard from all over the hall. Halfway through the game, there are already participants who have successfully achieved financial freedom when the rest of the participants are still struggling to pick the right investment technique just to avoid facing bankruptcy. A good thing is, one of the students representing Sunway has got 3^rd place as he managed to achieve financial freedom before any other participants did. This was a very proud moment for Sunway as we all know that Sunway students are very intelligent people.

After the game has ended, Mr Jonathan Quek has explain to all of the participants about the method of investing and some tips for investment. Besides that, a very motivational talk was also conducted by the Wall Street Academy representative. As the event draws nearer to the end, there was a lucky draw session which gives away silver coins to lucky participants. After that, a prize giving session was held and a promotional and appreciation video was shown to every participant. At 1.25pm, there was a photo-taking session for all the winners, participants, and organizing committee.

                                                                  

By 2pm, the whole event has ended. Every Sunway student are required to assemble and board the bus so that all of them can be transported back to Sunway. At 3.30pm, all of us have successfully reached Sunway safely. Overall it was a very successful event as it helps to widen our knowledge in terms of investing and also we are able to make more new friends. There are participants who have mentioned that they wished that there would be another similar competition like this so that they could participate again.

Most importantly, thanks to AKPK Malaysia, AFSA of UCSI, VUBC & SCSC of Sunway University, Sunway Pyramid Ice, The wall Street Academy & SilverMalaysia.com for contributing to this huge success!

Reported by : Eugene  Guok

Edited by: Fero Angelia

CPA Australia Passport Membership Briefing

The CPA Australia Passport membership briefing was held in the Lecture Theatre 1 at Sunway University on the 14^th of September 2012 from 3.30pm till 4.30pm. The guest speaker for the talk was Ms. Leong Pui Kuan who is also the CPA Australia Relationships Manager in Malaysia. Our MC of this CPA talk is Crystal.

Before the event started, all committee members from SCSC were asked to gather in the meeting room in the Infotainment centre to be brief on the objectives and roles of SCSC as well as that of CPA. We are also given the job scope which we are supposed to do before, during and after the talk. For the new committee members of SCSC, we were also given the CPA Australia T-shirt.

There are approximately 25 participants who had attended the talk which comprises of mainly Victoria University undergraduate degree students. The briefing was a success as it provides the participants information about the CPA programme and further enhances their interest in the programme to give them a choice between other such similar accounting professional qualifications such as ACCA and ICAEW.

During the meeting, the speaker explain about the objectives and roles of CPA Australia as well as the recognition one would be able to get from choosing CPA Australia. Examples of successful CPA Australia holders are such as Melissa Claassen, who is currently the CFO of Adidas Group for Hong Kong and Taiwan. Furthermore, the speaker also mentioned about the routes and exemptions a potential student may opt to take when they decide to join CPA Australia.

Besides that, three committee members which are Aatiq, Yit Han and Shumina also shared their experience and what they have learned from SCSC. Basically, they said that they enjoy and happy that they join SCSC and they will never regret to join SCSC.

The event ended at 4.30 pm. SCSC members collected the CPA Australia membership registration form from interested students. After the session ended, there are some students who approached Ms. Leong Pui Kuan for more information regarding CPA and the routes they are able and can take.

Written by: Teo Kok Peng

Edited by: Fero Angelia

Paintball Game

In order to come up with new environment for SCSC activities other than educational talks, we decided to have paintball game activity. This activity was joined by some of the committee member and some outsider in order to get enough people to play the game. If member interested, they have to pay RM 45 to our treasurer, Mona. We took two cars to reach the Sri Petaling , both of the cars belong to our members Teo Kok Peng and Kae Shen .Upon arrival the instructors told us how to play the game, and the basic do’s and don’ts that we  have to follow to the play the game safely and properly, since we had the special package we got to have additional bullets therefore we got to play three games. The first of two games teams were suppose to get flags after shooting down three bottles in the enemy territory and then the third games saw the same but in addition we had to get an additional flag from the enemy fort. After the games we all went to eat and having a quality time with fellowship and getting to know one another among the new friends. The environment is filled with joy and laughter. Following that, when everyone finished their food, then had drinks from cha-time. Overall it was another successful member’s activity for the SCSC family 


Written by: Aatiq
Edited by: Fero Angelia

SCSC Food Sales

On the 16^th of August 2012, SCSC held a one-day Food Sales. We were selling hand-made sushi, hot from the pan fried ice-cream and freshly baked colourful-designed cupcakes. The food sales were held at the Energy Hub from 9.30am till 2.30pm where the newly joined members were here to help to run the food sales. Besides, this was eventually a great opportunities for the new members to be able to bond with the senior members and had fun together.

We arrived at the booth at 8.30 which was well-decorated with effort the night before the food sales by Netty, Mona and their friends. 

Upon waiting the other members to arrive, we started to arrange the cupcakes toppings, fold boxes, roll sushi, and heating up the oil for fried ice-cream. At the beginning, the sales was not going well, maybe most of the students were having classes. Surprisingly, sales were increasing around 12.30pm where we sold out all of our sushi. We expected to sell more since the demand for sushi was high unfortunately we are running out of rice and mayonnaise to make it. There was a customer suggested to sell sushi with ‘wasabi’.

As the sales were going on, the cup cakes and fried ice-cream begin to be selling fast and we also received good comments on the fried ice-cream, especially the chocolate flavour. Some VU lecturers also complimented on the delicate decorated cupcakes with the rainbow coloured icing and various toppings such as marshmallows, jelly bean, choco chip and frosty sugars. A few seniors with experience in food sales walked around the campus persuading and promoting our food. Besides, the junior were quite helpful.  As time passed, the cupcakes were sold out and so as the fried ice-cream. The food sales closed at 2pm, earlier than what we expected because we sold out all. Indeed, all our food was yummy and tantalizing. As quickly as we could, everyone cleaned up the booth and packed up all the equipments.

By then, it ended at 2.30pm. The food sales were a great success, with great teamwork and great effort from all SCSC members! Ms Greeja, the head of department also suggested us to organise another food sales next semester. 

Report by: Leng Gui Sheng
Edited by: Fero Angelia

Laser Tag

After all the educational talks, SCSC club decides to promote the club in a different perspective. Hence, laser tag competition is planned. Announcements and posters are made, ensuring the awareness of all students in the university. Students who are interested are to call Yap Zhi Ruo and Saw Sher Ying. The event is held on the 18th of May 2012 at Laser Warzone IOI mall, Puchong at the price of RM40 for 3 games. The trip is opened to public and on that day itself, everyone is gathered at the foyer in Sunway University. Clubs representatives volunteered to drive all participants to the event area. Upon arrival, briefing was given to ensure all participants focuses primarily on safety rather than fun. Teams of 2 are divided and strategies are discussed. The first 2 games are team shooting based on the overall summation of points scored by team members. While the third game is played in the objective of free for all.  The overall shooting is tremendously fun and tiring. After all 3 games, the winning team received 5 Subway coupon vouchers worth RM50. Subsequently after the match, all of the participants went for tea in Subway IOI mall. Quality time of fellowship and getting to know one another among the new friends are encouraged. The environment is filled with joy and laughter. Following that, when everyone finished their food, bags are packed and everyone leaves with a wide smile on their faces. Overall, it was a success for SCSC in organizing a competition for the first time.

Written by: Julian

Edited by: Fero Angelia