Berly's Chocolate & Confectionary Sdn Bhd Trip

Beryl’s chocolate company trip was held on Friday, 18^th April 2008. This visit was organized by SCSC together with Sunway Student Department. This trip was one of the trips that is organized by SCSC and doesn’t have anything to do with accounting. There were one SSD staff and 40 participants that come from not only accounting or banking finance major but also from other specialization.

All the participants were encouraged to gather at the main foyer of Sunway University College at 12.30 pm. The participants start gathering and the committee member of the SCSC took the attendance to make sure all the participants were not late. Unfortunately one of the participants could not make it because of medical problem. After all the participants had been taken their attendance, the bus arrived at 1.20 pm and the refundable of RM 10 was given inside the bus. The group arrived at the company at 2.00 pm. All the participants were asked to assemble in a hall then the Beryl’s staff gave a brief presentation on how the chocolate are being produced. The slide was included the processes starts from the coco plants until it turn into a chocolate. After the presentation, the group was taken to go around the factory to directly see the production activities. The trip was closed with the participants were given the opportunity to test the products and shopping.

The group left for Sunway University College at 3.00 pm and arrived at 3.35 pm. Both evaluation questioner from SCSC and SSD were given when they were inside the bus.

Overall, the trip was fun & exciting. The participants was both enjoyed and learned about chocolate at the same time. From the evaluation, it looks like most of participants complained about the trip duration which was quite short and the information given from the staff was not clear and too short. As a conclusion, this trip was a success and most of students still asking for this kind of trip for next time.

Questionnaire Report

This was the conclusion of the comments and suggestion from the 30 participants of the trip.

‘I was very exciting for this trip because it is unusual and unique. Go for this kind of trips giving me additional knowledge about food industry. Although, the trip was quite short and the information given by the staff so little but I have fun and my suggestion to SCSC is to organize this kind of trip again either Malaysia or international company.’

Chalista Nesya Harahap (Victoria University (Sunway Campus), Bachelor of Business major in accounting and banking/finance, Semester 4)

‘SCSC is a good program for students because all the events organized by SCSC was fun and definitely can improve both our skill and knowledge. With this kind of trip, it gave me good time with my friends and gave me additional information that outside our education.’

Ficka Febri Yani (Victoria University (Sunway Campus), Bachelor of Business major in accounting and banking/finance, Semester 2)

‘I was under impression that it would have lasted longer and it would have been more hands-on rather than just viewing a video. The guide sort of rushed us through the whole process rasher than allowing us to view the machines processes up close. The guide was rather unclear about some queries.’

Diana (Victoria University (Sunway Campus), Bachelor of Business major in accounting and banking/finance, Semester 4)