Practical Accounting, Audit and Tax Training Programme (1st & 2nd Session)

SUBJECT:

Practical Accounting, Audit and Tax Training Programme

DATE & VENUE:

15-18 October 2014, Merang Suria Resort, Setiu, Terengganu

BACKGROUND

Practical Accounting, Audit and Tax Training Programme (Program Praktikal Perakaunan, Audit dan Percukaian) is an exclusive programme funded by the Ministry of Education Malaysia. The program was previously held in UKM, from 7-10 April 2014 and UiTM Puncak Alam on 14-17 April 2014. Accounting majoring students from various public universities have attended the program. The participating universities are UKM, UMT, UPM, USIM, UiTM and UniSZA. Most of the students are in their third year of study and will undergo internship program within this year.

This is the third cycle with participation of 146 students from UKM, UPM, UMT and UnisZA.

The details are as below:

1. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia – 33
2. Universiti Putra Malaysia – 14
3. Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin – 43
4. Universiti Malaysia Terengganu – 56
5. TOTAL – 146

All students stayed in the hotel throughout the programme. Each university has their person in charge to accompany their students except for UPM. Students’ attendance are monitored daily and divided in to morning and afternoon sessions. Each day, the programme started at from 8.30 a.m to 5.30 p.m.

The trainer, Mr. Razak gave fine lecturers and divided the topics accordingly. Students were exposed with the real working experience and were given exercises based on the real documents provided by Razak & Co. They learned how to work on accounting in the real sense manually, instead of using modern software. The learning process was interactive where students can ask any questions.

On Firday (17^th October 2014), 13 students from UMT had to finish their programme early as they have leave the country to Perth, Australia.

On the last day of the program, certification ceremony was held to acknowledge their attendance and participation in the program. Prof. Dr. Ishak Yusuf from UKM and Dr. Jamaludin from UMT were hand in hand give out the certificate to all participants.

RECOMMENDATION

Based on the participation list, the numbers of students who joined the program was very encouraging. This can also be seen during the class attendance. The students’ commitment is commendable where they stayed on until the last day of the program.

In future, it is suggested that the programme is held based on regional zone so that management of the programme can be easily administered and monitored.