Members of the Accounting Research Institute (ARI) thank the site audit team from the Ministry of Education Malaysia. In particular, we appreciate all feedback given by the two auditors, Professor Dr Muhamad bin Jantan and Professor Dato' Dr Muhammad bin Muda. It is common practice that every year, a Higher Institution Centre of Excellence (HICoE) undergoes two types of assessments: (i) document audit, (ii) site audit. Today, it was a special site audit which aims to evaluate the performance of ARI after its three years establishment as a HICoE. The assessment was on four main dimensions namely (i) Human capital development. For ARI, it was number of postgraduate students enrolled & graduated as well as number of individuals or professionals successfully trained as fraud investigators; (ii) Publications in high impact indexed journals and number of citations derived from such publications; (iii) IPR in the forms of patents, trademarks and copyrights for original writings. Due to the nature of ARI research projects, our focus on IPR has always been on the number of copyrights obtained from research book publications; (iv) Networking and international collaboration. Over the 3-year HICoE periods, ARI/UiTM has signed more than 30 MOUs and MOUs signifying research and publications in the niche area Islamic Financial Criminology. At the exit meeting, ARI received some very commendable results where we have mostly surpassed the set targets.
Congratulation all and well done.
