KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 17
(Bernama) – The recent MIA-Sunway TES Accounting Quiz 2018 (AQ) attracted
more than 5,400 students from 500 schools throughout Malaysia.
At the grand finals on Aug 11, Team KOK from Sekolah
Menengah Kebangsaan USJ 13, Selangor emerged as the champion in the group
category, while Chin Joe Yee from Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Malim Nawar,
Perak was crowned champion in the individual category, a statement from the
Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA) read.
The AQ holds the distinction of being the first online
accounting competition in Malaysia gradually incorporating more elements of
technology. This is the sixth consecutive year MIA is organising the quiz
with Sunway TES.
The AQ is recognised by the Ministry of Education (MOE) as
one of its co-curricular activities and is open to Form 4 and Form 5 students
from secondary schools under MOE, secondary schools under the purview of other
government agencies and private secondary schools.
AQ guest of honour, MOE co-curricular & arts division
principal assistant director, Mohd Rashid Mean, said, “This is a good
initiative inline with Industry 4.0 where technology is changing the way the
world works and lives.”
MIA chief executive officer, Dr Nurmazilah Mahzan, said
in her speech before the potential accountants, that although the basic
accountancy principles and concepts they are learning today will continue to be
valid in the future, the way accountants work will begin to be extremely
different.
“Tools like artificial intelligence and machine learning,
blockchain, cloud and data analytics, will remove the boring parts of work. You
will be doing work that requires judgement, thinking skills and integrity, as
well as communications skills,” she said.
MIA is hopeful that the AQ will be a starting point that
inspires many young talents to pursue a career in accountancy because the
nation will require 60,000 accountants by 2030.
-- BERNAMA
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