Certified Accounting Technician (CAT) & Association Of Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA)

I just want to wish u all CAT & ACCA'S student all very best and good luck for your exam!

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Currently away for a few weeks then i'll be back with a new post. I'm busy with my final exams....

Totti and Tommy's Birthday Party!!

Totti and Tommy, my little twins brother had just celebrated his 3 years old birthday on 16, November, 2008! The celebration is held at my Section 6 house. This are the few pictures taken during the celebration.








HEY!!!!!!!!!!! UNFAIR!!! THEY GOT MORE PRESENT THEN I GET!!! hahahaha...

KPMG, Damansara

Friday, November 14 – The top 7 and Corporate Relations of Association of Professional Accounting Student (APAcS) of Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) committee having a meeting with Mr. Ivo Van Der Kleij from head of HR Department of KPMG (external auditor) to discuss any extent to collaborate with any activities. The meeting started at 3.30pm and finish by 5.00pm. After that Mr. Ivo bring us a walk around a few departments and floors.

After meeting with Mr. Ivo, we having our lunch at One Utama and straight away going to Sime Darby Convention Centre to discuss our annual dinner which is held on 21st, March, 2009 and snap a few pictures to promote our annual dinner.

Perdana Leadership Foundation, Putrajaya

Wednesday, October 12 – All Association of Professional Accounting Student (APAcS) committee and a group of students of UiTM from law, accounting, education and mass communication are invited to join the conference organize by UiTM and Perdana Leadership Foundation which is founder by Tun Dr. Mahathir. The conference also by many NGOs , universities and other countries as well. This conference is totally sponsored by Proton.

This program start at 9.30am however we managed to arrived there by 8.20am. We have our breakfast there. The conference starts with Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad and followed by Professor Shamsul A.B., Mr Alvin Goh (YTL), Dr. Chandra Muzaffar and Dr. K.J. John. The conference will discuss about “Bangsa Malaysia” which is consists of Malay, Chinese, Indian and other minority. We also talked about “Artikel 153” and National Economy Policy (NEP) which is more likely talk about Malay privileges. We divided into 6 groups and discuss about “Bangsa Malaysia”. We are giving about 1hour to discuss. After we discuss our group leader will present in front of the guests and participants. The presentation will be documented. The conference is end around 6.00pm.

This is an extent of a few questions highlighted during the conference to understanding the concept of “Bangsa Malaysia”:

1) The meaning of the concept clear to all Malaysian or does the notion mean different things to different people, thus necessitating further debate on the issue.
2) Is “Bangsa Malaysia” the much solution to problem of national unity in Malaysia?
3) To what extent does the concept of Bangsa Malaysia correlate to the requirements and features of a modern nation state?
4) Are the existing social and political structures of the country conducive for attainment of Bangsa Malaysia?
5) What are the major obstacles on the road to releasing a “Bangsa Malaysia” for the country?

BOOK-WISE OR LEADERSHIP SKILLED PERSON??

Don’t ever think that you smart you can be successful. Yes you can be successful but only in education matters where else in the corporate world most of the CEO or successful business man are more into leadership skill and extrovert rather than book wise-person. For me, I defined the book wise person who scored well every examination, study 24-7, study with a book, eat with book, and sleep with a book. Perhaps maybe dream with a book!

You can rely doing the work to book wise person. They are doing work very well but no intention to achieving something good. Maybe they have ambition or what so ever but they doesn’t show towards on it. Mostly this type of person is introvert.

Where else, the extrovert and leadership person is good in strategies the plan and succeed their objectives. They more often get arguments by their colleague as the plan might not perfect or disagree by some of people. This type of people also easily get job offer as the track records are good in the planning.

In a team we can divide by a nine type of person which is implementer, coordinator, shaper, plant, resource investigator, monitor evaluator, team worker, complete finisher and specialist. Each of nine oriented roles has its strength and weakness, and can be categories into three groups which are Action Oriented, People Oriented and Thought Oriented. I already done the test any my result is resource investigator! Now I know who I am. Thus I will use my qualities to achieve my ambition.

So don’t be snobbish for those who so called ‘intelligent’ people or book-wise type of person. Doesn't mean your are smart you have bright path on your life!

CONVENTIONAL OR ISLAMIC INSTITUTIONS??

As you know, in Islam we are prohibited using interest for returns. Thus, in conventional bank they are using interest to give return for depositors. More over, they also invest our money in any institutions. Some of our money they might invest in casino, beer company etc which is not Halal for the income of Muslim. More over it can give higher returns of investment for the bank.

In Islamic institutions such as bank, they will invest our money only in Halal institutions only and giving dividend as returns to the depositor instead interest which is not allowed by Islam. The rate of return dividend doesn’t fix like interest. However, the return sometime can be increase or decrease. Thus, the return sometimes can be higher compared to the conventional institutions. Most of the time the return is high compared to conventional institutions (interest).

If you own conventional saving account, why not you just change your account to Al-Wadiah / Al-mudharabah since the return would be higher. More over, the return is halal!