Participants of Ultimate Curtin Business Survival Camp gain knowledge and skills for future careers

Miri – 28 October 2015 – Participants of the annual Ultimate Curtin Business Survival Camp at Curtin University, Sarawak Malaysia (Curtin Sarawak) recently gained added knowledge and skills to help them succeed in their future careers, be it in the corporate world or through entrepreneurship.

During the camp, the participants were required to complete a series of activities relating to real-life challenges, making investment decisions based on various scenarios presented. They were encouraged to apply the knowledge acquired in the tasks and at the same time, hone their critical thinking, time management and team-building skills.

Facilitating the activities was Bong Jeen Hao, an alumni of Curtin Sarawak and current Unit Manager of TA Investment Management. Peter Gabriel of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) was one of the guest speakers at the camp.

The camp was organised by Accounting Club Curtin Sarawak (ACCS), a student-run organisation, and supported by ACCA, Crowe Horwath, KPMG, and Curtin Sarawak. Organising chairperson Jonah Ting commented that the event was a great success for his committee members as well as the participants. He said it provided an effective platform for the participants to find out more about registering as ACCA professionals.

“We want our students to be able to achieve their full potential through events like this,” said Lynn Ling Yew Hua, Head of the Department of Accounting of the university’s Faculty of Business and Humanities. “It is the aim of the Department of Accounting to continuously enhance the student learning experience at our university.”

Curtin Sarawak is the largest international campus of Curtin University in Western Australia, which is ranked in the top 2% of universities worldwide in the highly regarded Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), as well as in the top ranks of universities in the QS World University Ranking (QSWUR) and Times Higher Education World University Ranking (THEWUR). The university is also equal tenth in the THEWUR: 100 Most International Universities in the World ranking, has 16 subjects ranked in the top 200 worldwide in the QSWUR by Subject ranking, and was awarded five stars overall in the 2015 QS Stars University Ratings.

The Curtin accounting programme offered at Curtin Sarawak is recognised by accounting professional bodies such as ACCA, Chartered Public Accountant (CPA) Australia, Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA), Malaysian Institute of Chartered Accountants (MICPA), Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA), and Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).

The campus offers an accounting single major and three double major combinations (Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Entrepreneurship and Accounting and Banking) under its Bachelor of Commerce programme.

The Ultimate Curtin Business Survival Camp 2015 organising committee.