Industrial Visit to Leaderonomics

On the 21^st March 2014, Sunway CPA Australia Student Charter (SCSC) had successfully organised an industrial visit for Sunway students to Leaderonomics. The SCSC members had devoted a lot of effort in ensuring that this event will run smoothly. Besides that, special thanks to Leaderonomics for their cooperation as well as their generosity for hosting this visit.

Leaderonomics is a social enterprise with a sole purpose of transforming nations through leadership development. Their vision is to seek to nurture people into leaders, develop affectionate communities, and transform human societies. It is centred on helping everyone to build their leadership capabilities and helping them to grow into community leaders that make a difference in the world. They strongly believe that leadership will help transform communities and societies into a better, fairer and more caring society.

Address: Suite 9.08 & 9.09, Block E, Phileo Damansara 1, 9 Jalan 16/11, 46350 PJ

Phone: 03-79575809/5804

Website: http://leaderonomics.org/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Leaderonomics?fref=ts

Email: admin@leaderonomics.com

During the visit, Leaderonomics welcomed us with joyful arms and led us to their main office. The staff-in-charge, Ms Nadia guided us around their office for a tour to which the participants were fascinated about the office’s surroundings and atmosphere of the other staff members doing their work. Furthermore, the speakers of this company, Mr Andrew Lau and Ms Ang Hui Ming generously provided the students with many helpful information and knowledge about their victorious company.

After the short briefing, Leaderonomics has  kindly prepared a satisfying lunch, i.e. Domino’s Pizza for us to fill our tummies. After lunch, some special activities was arranged for us and we were then broken down into groups. One of the activities was a task given on how to secure sponsorship to fund our projects to be carried out for the youths in Leaderonomics’ Community Centre. All of us truly enjoyed the games and had a good time in brainstorming the ideas. The activities has certainly amplified students’ soft skills such as communication skills, conflict resolution, strategic thinking, team building, creative problem solving and etc. At the end of the visit, SCSC (along with our dearest lecturer, Ms Anita) presented a basket of fruits as a token of appreciation to the head manager of Leaderonomics, Mr Andrew Lau.

In conclusion, the objective of this field trip was achieved, i.e. to provide Sunway students with an insight knowledge of the business world. Positive feedbacks were given by majority of the participants while negative feedback was noted down to improve our next industrial visit. Once again, SCSC would like to thank Leaderonomics for this knowledgeable and yet memorable visit; and of course, not forgetting our supportive participants who have been very sporting in this visit. :)  

Written by: Chang Yan Ee (Lydia) 

Eat, Laugh, Share 2.0 Food Sales

The Eat, Laugh, Share 2.0 Food Sales of SCSC Sunway University is back! If you happened to pass by the Energy Hub of Sunway University and wondered what was it that smells so good and makes you drool, that must be us! On the 17th September 2013, we SCSC had our one day food sale at Energy Hub from 10am to 5pm. The food that were on sales included cookies, satay, sushi roll, banana chocolate sandwich and our best seller, FRIED ICE-CREAM.

The SCSC minions (becuase we're all in yellow shirt) stand by by 8am and start working hard and getting ready for the food sales. We were to set up the venue by ourselves. All thanks to our members who are gym regulars, we got our table set up in less than 30 minutes. We pay extra attention on hygiene by making sure that everyone has gloves on and clean all the tables and equipments before we use them. We don't want anyone got stomach ache after having our food! Members who in charged of the food were like the participants in Master Chef, being so passionate and serious about their task! Hmm, guess there was a competition happening secretly among the members who in charged of the food! Which team will come up with the best sales?

If you were there, we bet you will love the fried ice-cream as it was SOLD OUT in less than 2 hours. Who doesn't love ice-cream especially when it was covered by a crispy crust outside and when you bite it, the ice-cream melts immediately in your mouth! You heard you, there will definitely be extra supply of the fried ice-cream in our upcoming food sales! 

 We hope you find our new coupon system that we just implemented in this food sales much more better than what we did last time. You may found our system a little bit out of usual but we would like to thank you for your corporation. By making payment at the cashier first and get a coupon to be redeem at the food preparation helps us to be more systematic and able to serve all of you promptly!

There is one thing that we would like to admit, SCSC loves to take photos! So sorry for bombarding you all with our endless group photos because the members will complaint if they don't see their photos up in the blog. In a way, all these photos were memories of all the fun time we had. If you want to be part of us, stay tuned to our facebook page for recruitment announcement!

 Once again, SCSC would like thank all of you that supported us in the food sales. We will try our best to improve our recipe for the next food sales and we sincerely hope you will support us throughout! For those who missed the fun, fret not because there will be another food sales coming up soon so stay tuned!  

Editor:

Alice Tan

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

Food Sales

On the 24^th of April 2013, SCSC held a one-day food sales. The food sales was held at the Energy Hub from 10:00 am till 4:00 pm. The food items sold were all home-made which consist of sushi, fried ice-cream, konnyaku jelly, chocolate chip pecan cookies and 2 types of cakes, biscuit crusted cake and chocolate chip walnut cake. 

All the members of the committee members participated in this event where some of the members were in charge of different food items.

Tables and chairs were carried and moved to the Energy Hub the day before hand by all the muscular guys namely Jeff, Huan Xiang, Gui Sheng, Kae Shen, John whereas the board was decorated by the talented artists Crystal, Shang Ping and Caryn.

On the day of the food sales, members who are staying in the hostel, Huan Xiang and Jeff were asked to come to the campus by 8:00 am to help out to carry the food items from the car to the booth and to the fridge. Other members slowly arrived one by one to get ready for the big day ahead. While waiting for the other members to arrive, Ashley and Gui Sheng were busy preparing and rolling the sushi behind the board.

Making sushi

Due to the efficient team work of displaying food items and preparing boxes for cakes, we were all prepared before the opening time. At 10 am sharp, we started our food sales with a cashier and recorder for each session which was appointed the day before. The food sales started out a little slow as it was still early. However, it picked up pas when lunch time was arriving. 

In the process of the food sales, many of the committee members took turns to walk around to sell the food items in the lecturers’ office, the AUP office and the students around the campus.

The hot selling items for the day were our special fried ice-cream and sushi. The fried ice-cream was sold out in the first 2 hours and customers came back for more even after it was sold out. They were very sad to find out that it was all sold out. Sushi was such a hit that we had to cook three batches of rice on campus to fulfil the taste buds of the customers. Customers gave very good comments on the sushi such as it was unique and delicious due to our special prawn paste included. Some also suggested us to put more mayonnaise as it was not enough. The cookies also got much attention from customers and they commented that it was very delicious. The rest of the items slowly picked up pace. We managed to end our sales by 3:30 pm after everything was sold out before the expected time.

Throughout the food sales this semester, we learned many lessons where we now know that the role of a cashier and a recorder is extremely important both to us and also the customers in order to be more organised. All the members had a wonderful and enjoyable time although we had a little trouble throughout the whole day.

Written by: Tan Huan Xiang & Ashley Khaw

Edited by: Clover Chong