Recruitment Drive

The 2009 Recruitment Drive was held in the Student Services Department for two days, namely on the 21st and 22nd of July. In hindsight, the number of CPA passport applicants was satisfactory and the corresponding figure for committee member candidates turned out to be 15. The latter shall be called for interviews and once their eligibility evaluated, the lucky ones shall be warmly welcomed aboard the SCSC club.

To be noted, some students, especially newcomers, were enthusiastically interested in joining the club. They inquired about the activities conducted as well as the background of CPA itself. Here, it should be highlighted that our committees did excellently in providing the necessary detailed information to the visitors dropping by our booth. Brochures and pamphlets were offered to enhance understanding of the CPA Australia's program and its related benefits as a postgraduate qualification. Furthermore, CPA pens and paper clips were offered as promotional tokens.

All in all, we hope to swell the number of applicants for both CPA passport numbers and the SCSC committee members in the coming months and years, principally through buttressed promotional efforts.

Global Business Forum Photo

Mr. Chan, Mr. Andrew, Dr. Arfah, Manager of CPA Australia and Dr. Foo

Vicky, Evonne, Sally, Gary, and Ian

Sally and Chin Peng

Registration booth

Audi 7

Global Business Forum 16th May 2009

Global Business Forum

This event was organised by Sunway University College and CPA Australia and its purpose was to discuss about the impact of global economic crisis to accounting and financial service sector. It was held in Sunway University College’s Multi Purpose Hall on 16th May 2009, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. SCSC members gathered at Audi 7 about 8 a.m. to start with the preparation such as setting up registration counter. All committee members are required to wear CPA T-shirt provided by CPA Australia

Then, a short briefing was done and the followings are the list of members on duties:

Registration:

Mariam

Lily

Chin Peng

Jen

Usherers:

Evonne

Ummay

Ian

Vicky

Photographers: Mariam & Ian

Our honorable speakers:

Chan Cheh Shin

Chief Investment Officer, Asian Islamic Investment Management Berhad

Andrew Heng CPA

Partner, Ferrier Hodgson MH

Arfah Salleh PhD, FCPA

Associate Professor of Accounting, University Putra Malaysia

At 9:15 a.m. the forum was started by Dr. Foo, Head of School of Business & Law in Sunway. After that, the first speaker, Mr Chan talked about the impact on changes in investment portfolio by today’s economic world. A lot of charts and grafts were shown to clarify his point of views. He also explained some areas to do investment and risk management models to be used by the banks.

Then, Mr. Andrew Heng identified how global crisis affects in Accounting Profession and he believes the crisis would end in 2010 in Malaysia according to some analyses. Moreover, Mr. Andrew also carried out his opinions to some accounting issues such as the conflict between Fair Value Methods vs Historical Cost Method and Impairment of Assets for current economic status.

Dr. Afrah’s views were more emphasize on human governance rather than corporate governance. She is more concern about ‘Question the fundamental’ and the importance of Accountant’s behaviour that related to society’s welfare.

Students asked questions during Q & A sections and different types of questions were responded by the three speakers.

11.45 a.m. Refreshment served at balcony

12.00 noon End of the event and photo taking session

Fund Raising Event 2009

This event was held during Sunway Sport Carnival in April.
SCSC was selling isotonic drinks (100 plus) and mineral water
to the players, audiences and staffs.
Sales on first day was very good during futsal games and we were almost out of stock there.
However, sales for the following days were not as good because of bad weather and competitors.
As a result, this event was not very successful as the profit margin was lower than expectation.
SCSC will have another fund raising event in future.