MIA Talk

    On 31 October 2013, the MIA talk was held at KAG01 lecture hall from 11.30 am to 12.30 pm. The talk was given by Mr Ng Kean Kok, the Deputy Dean for Accountancy and Management and also an Assistant Professor in UTAR. There were 62 participants who attended the MIA Talk. 

    At 11.00 am, students registration had been started on the counter before they entered into the hall. A welcome speech was given by emcee to speaker once the talk started. The information regarding the importance of MIA and the recognition of Bachelor of Accounting in UTAR by MIA had been clearly delivered to students during the talk. (That's a good news for BoA students in UTAR as this 4-years course is finally recognized by MIA. *clap!clap!*) The speaker had also shared the benefit of being a MIA member and knowledge of Bachelor of Accounting with the participants. Besides, the questioning section was provided for students as well. The talk was beneficial to us as we are going to start our career in the field of Accounting in the next future. 

  Around 12.20 pm, the talk was almost come to the end. Before that, the chairperson of Accounting Society presented a souvenir to Mr Ng as a token of appreciation. The MIA talk was officially end by 12.30 pm. 

 Students sign in their attendance before they entered to the hall.

 

           Talk started. 

The chairperson of Accounting Society gave a souvenir to Mr Ng to express appreciation and gratitude.

October Recruitment Drive 2013

Date: 14^th – 18^th October 2013

Time: 10.00 am – 4.00pm

Venue: South Lobby, FAM, Sg Long

Our Accounting Society (UAS) had organized an October Recruitment Driven in order to recruit new members among the October intake students and those existing UTAR students. The registration booth had been set up at South Lobby and a duty schedule had been prepared to ensure there will be a person in charge of the booth from 10am until 4pm. The duty members were assigned to introduce the upcoming events of UAS and the benefits gained by joining our society to accounting students.

With the cooperation of the duty members during these days, the recruitment drive has successfully created awareness among accounting students about our UAS. 

Business Game : The Next Entrepreneur (2013)

Once again, Business Game was organized in UTAR Sungai Long.

This event was held by Accounting Society (UAS) with the collaboration of CIMA on 15^th August 2013, from 9 am to 2 pm at South Lobby. It is a challenging game with the aim of “going for profit” by operating a business virtually. Participants are required to make certain decisions and strategic thinking in pursuit the highest profit for their businesses. Through this game, the participants are able to be exposed to the reality of the business world. 

Well, there were 6 teams, each with 4 members took part in Business Game this year. In the early 9am on the day, the organizing committees and CIMA members were all ready and waiting for the coming of the participants. 

The prizes for the winning team, best logo, best design and best jingle was placed on the table and waiting for participants to grab it home. 

Those materials needed during the game had been prepared before start the game.

At the beginning of the game, Mr Michael, one of the CIMA members, was giving a short briefing for the participants on the Business Game by using the Power Points slides. Each team was required to create a company name and delegate the roles and positions among the members since they were going to set up a pizza business. 2 main tasks were given to participants to bid for location and make decisions for four quarters.

CIMA member was giving a short briefing for participants. 

Discussion for bidding session 

Decisions making session

PC administrators key in the decisions made by each team into computer. 

Each teams were given a portfolio and decisions form in every quarter. Participants had to fill the forms up and submit it to organizing members after a quick discussion with team members. 
The decisions made included the price and quality of the pizza, advertising fees, salary of the workers, marketing research and so forth. More complicated decisions will be added in every quarter to challenge those participants. Next, the PC administrators key in the decisions into the CIMA computerized analysis program and calculate the profits or losses they incurred. The scorekeeper then wrote down the highest profit to date on the whiteboard at the end of each quarter in order to increase the fun of the game and the final results based on the decisions they made were distributed to them. 

While waiting for the computerized calculation and results printing, there were three special challenges for participants to complete. As a successful entrepreneur, he or she not only should capable of entrepreneurship but also should have creativity and innovative. Each team had been assigned to create a short advertising jingle for their pizza business and design the uniform and pizza box within a short period. 

One of the interesting advertising jingles for the pizza business

Is the uniform suitable for boys too? :)

Creative uniforms designed by participants

Beautiful and colourful pizza boxes

Finally, the Business Game ended at 2 pm. The winner of this game had a total profit of €114,576. The winning team, first runner-up and the next team, the second runner-up was awarded by Mr Steven. Gifts were given to teams with the best logo, best design and best jingle by Mr Sophian. Puah Zi Yang, the chairman of UAS also presented souvenirs to the CIMA members. At the end of the game,we also expressed the gratitude to the CIMA team for making this event a success.

The winning team and best jingle team

The first runner-up team

The second runner-up team

The best logo and design team

Chairman of UAS was giving souvenir to CIMA members.

 

These are the respective CIMA team, UAS members and the participants of the Business Game. 

Fund Raising July 2013

Date: 29^th July 2013 to 30^th July 2013 (Monday to Tuesday)

Time: 10am to 4pm

Venue: South Lobby (UTAR Sungai Long)

The fund raising had been held for 2 days consecutively. One of the objectives for this event is to create and increase the awareness among UTAR students about the Accounting Society (UAS). Soya, pancakes and S’mores were selling for this fund raising. The event was successfully carried out and we found that the most popular foods are soya, followed s’mores and pancakes.

During the two days, duty committees had started to prepare to open the booth before 10am. Once everything was fully settled, the duty committees began to promote the foods and drinks we sold. We had received a positive response from the students. 

Below are some photo taken during the event: 

Duty committees received the orders from customers. 

Duty members used the toaster to reheat the cooked pancakes for customers. 

The S'mores were being prepared by duty members with the use of marshmallows, biscuits, and chocolate powder.