Associates to provide accounting training

Simposium UMS, SMKA Limauan bantu ketengah isu pembangunan negeri Sabah NSt 4-5 -20 (KOTA

KINABALU: Simposium Peranan Alumni Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Aga- ma (SMKA) Limauan anjuran bezsama SMKA Limauan dan Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) baru-baru ini mampu mengetengahkan pelbagai aspek berkaitan pembangunan negeri Sabah melalui sesi perbincangan ilmiah antara peserta dari pelbagai latar belakang.

Simposium yang mengumpulkan seramai 200 peserta yang terdiri daripada mantan gu- ru-guru dan alumni SMKA Limauan dari tahun 1977 sehingga 2003 turut melibatkan beberapa ahli akademik UMS bagi membincangkan isu-isu sepeiti pengurusan sains dan teknologi, pendidikan dan pembangunan, sosio ekonomi dan sejarah sekolah berkenaan.

Turut berlangsung forum bertajuk 'Ke- unikan Tarkiyab Limauan: Dan Kepayahan Hingga Kejayaan' yang membariskan tiga ahli panel iaitu Pengarah Yayasan Dakwah Is- lamiah Malaysia (YADIM) Cawangan Sabah,

8 Friday April 21,2017

PESERTA... Para peserta simposium bergambar kenangan sementara gambar kiri Arifin semasa menyampaikan ucapan perasmian.

Haji Saimin Ongki, Ketua Sektor Pengurusan Islam, Jabatan Pendidikan Negeri Sabah, Dr. Haji Mohd Kassim Tusin, dan Setiausaha Akademik Institut Perguruan (IPG) Kampus Tengku Ampuan Afzan, Mohd Rasdi Saanah.

Sementara itu, Pembantu Menteri di Ja- batan Ketua Menteri, Datuk Arifin Arif ketika menyampaikan ucapan perasmian penutupan berkata, pertemuan besar alumni SMKA Li- mauan itu mampu memberi impak yang besar ke arah persauda:. an serta menjadikan alumni sebagai nadi penggerak kemajuan negeri Sabah dalam setiap aspek khususnya menyediakan modal insan kelas pertama dalam mendepani dunia yang semakin mencabar.

Turut hadir Pengerusi Penaja Persatuan Alumni SMKA Limauan, Hj. Salman Datuk Hj. Ismail, Pendaftar UMS, No'man Ahmad yang juga merupakan pengerusi penganjur simposium, dan mantan pengetua pertama SM- KA Limauan, Ustaz Hj Ismail Hassan.

New Sabah Times

UMS collaborates with P. S Yap, Isma 9 KOTA KINABALU: University Malaysia Sabah (UMS) inked a Memorandum of Agree- ment (MOA) with P. S Yap, Isma & Associates to provide industry training for students and lecturers in the field of accountancy.

Vice Chancellor Prof Datuk Dr Harun Ab- dullah said the signing paves the way forward for enhancing industry-academic cooperation between the two parties to allow wider op- portunities for final-year accountancy stu- dents to get their on-the-job training in cam- pus.

"This marks another step forward for UMS and P. S Yap, Isma & Associates in heightening joint cooperation to widen opportunities for university students to obtain quality academic training, enhance employability to fulfil in- dustry standards, "he said.

Speaking to the reporters yesterday, Harun said the partnership between UMS and the P. S Yap, Isma & Associates also resulted in the opening of the first on-campus accounting "Business Solutions@UMS" office in UMS which provides on-the-job training to account- ing students.

"The accounting firm had also received and trained 48 UMS accountancy graduates who completed their training within the period of 2 to six months since the on-campus office was launched in 2015, " Harun said, noting 10 UMS graduates are already employed and pursuing their careers with P. S Yap, Isma & Asso- ciates.

According to Harun, the experience gained at the on-campus office would allow students to immediately apply their skills in the industry with minimum supervision upon graduates, thus significantly increasing their employ- ability.

"The on-campus office was jointly launched with the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the university and the accountancy firm on May 19,2015, " he added.

The agreement was signed between Prof Dr Harun and Dato' Yap Pian Seen, Industry Associate or jr., ) xap, isma and Associates, and was witnessed by UMS Registrar No'Man HJ Ahmad and Prof Raman Noordin, the Dean of UMS Faculty of Business, Economics and

Accountancy, as well as UMS staff and del- egates from the firm.

"This will also provide joint academic pro- grammes, such as training, workshops, con- ferences and related activities for accounting students and teaching staff, " said Harun.

Furthermore, he said the collaboration would also allow lecturers in the accountancy pro- gramme to join the firm for industrial at- tachment which fulfils the 12-month training period requirement set by the Malaysian In-

RESOLUSI... Haji Salman (dua dari kiri) menyerahkan resolusi simposium kepada Arifin,

sambil diperhatikah No'man (kiri) clan Ustaz Haji Ismail (kanan).

Harun exchanging the Memorandum

of A reement (MOA) with Yap (2nd right) after

the signing at the UMS Chancellory

Building.

stitute of Accountancy (MIA). P. S Yap, Isma & Associates is a reputable

accounting firm under the Malaysian Ac- countancy Institute (MIA) based in Kuala Lumpur with branches in Kangar, Subang, Johor Bahru and Kota Kinabalu. First founded in 1992, the firm has at least 6,000 clients and provides professional accountancy consulta- tion which includes auditing, taxation, cor- porate secretary, accountancy software and negotiations.