Second NAfMA Workshop in UiTM

Today, ARI and the CIMA-UiTM Asian Management Accounting Research Centre (AMARC) hosted the second NAfMA workshop in UiTM. We received participation of ten companies who are mainly those from the public listed company category. Mr Yeo Teck Ling, the NAfMA Organising Committee chairman himself made the presentations on NAfMA assessment process and NAfMA assessment criteria. Thanks to our PhD students and RA for organising the event.

IIM Integrity Circle Program

ARI has been invited to nominate suitable candidates for the Tan Sri Azizan Zainul Abidin Integrity Circles for Young Professional Program to be held in Semporna Sabah on 18-25 July 2009. The invitation is extended to the high potential leaders below the age of 35, with demonstrated leadership in their respective fields and having a keen desire to actively contribute towards the objectives of the National Integrity Plan. ARI and faculty members can suggest names to ARI office by 30th June 2009.

ARI Updates 2008

ARI has recently published its ARI Updates 2008 Bulletin. Basically, the bulletin captures important events such as conferences, workshops, paper presentations and lists important researches, publications, products innovation, consultancies, trainings. Faculty and ARI members who wish to get a copy of the bulletin, please contact Ms Wan Mariati at wanmariati@salam.uitm.edu.my. We are also in the process of accumulating news and photos for the forthcoming ARI Updates 2009. Please forward me relevant photos and description of events.

Books of Readings

ARI is looking for faculty members who are keen to become editors to books of readings. You need not necessarily be an active researcher. What is more important is your deep knowledge in specific areas such as public sector accounting, ethics, taxation, auditing issues etc. Premised on a chosen theme, each book should contain at least ten chapters contributed by different authors. It is best if 2-3 people get together to edit the books. For 2009, ARI is planning to publish at least ten books of readings. If you are interested, please contact me at normah645@salam.uitm.edu.my

Courtesy Visit to UPM

Thanks to Prof Mohd Adzir (the one in light yellow shirt), Deputy Director of the Research Management Centre (RMC) at UPM and his team for spending time with the UiTM team this afternoon. He gave a briefing and a demo of UPM's Knowledge Portal. UPM has one of the finest knowledge portals amongst the public universities in the country. It was a worthwhile trip as our team learned a lot from the briefing. We were also shown UPM's Research University Monitoring System. Very impressive indeed....

RU Briefing

There was an RU briefing today. All deans and deputy deans (Research & Networking) were invited. The DVC (Research & Innovation), Assistant VC of the Research Management Institute (RMI) and the Director of the Strategic Planning unit briefed those who were present on the RU data verification process. Faculty deans were asked to update their faculty's databases on research, publication, commercialization, innovation and networking.

Professorial Lecture

ARI and the Faculty of Accountancy will be hosting the forthcoming professorial lecture on 14th July 2009. The lecture will be delivered by the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic & Internationalisation) Prof Dr Mustafa Mohd Zain who is also our colleague from the faculty.

Congratulations Intan & Norzaidi

Congratulations to both Intan and Norzaidi for winning the "Best Paper" catergory during the recent international conference in Prague. Both Intan & Norzaidi are research associates with the Accounting Research Institute. We are proud of both of you. The next natural step is may be to publish in either Scopus or ISI Thomson journal.

Innovation Blueprint

In our quest to become a Research University (and to sustain it), there's a lot of initiatives that need to be planned and implemented. Today, the Deputy Vice Chansellor (Networking and Community) had invited a group of professors and the CEO of UiTM Holding for a whole day meeting to discuss on strategies to enhance innovation and to facilitate the commercialisation of research products. As a director of ARI, I was also invited. It was indeed a very fruitful meeting. More meetings and workshops will be held in the very near future so that the university' Innovation Blueprint could be drawn.

RU Data Gathering

The RU committee is targeting to complete the RU data collection for years 2004-2008 by August 2009. The Data Collection Committee is chaired by Prof Dr Abu Bakar Majeed, Assistant Vice Chansellor (RMI). For the next two weeks, some members of the RU Promotion Committee will be visiting faculties and centres of excellence to remind everyone of the deadline and the need to update one's CVs. We can also expect some new written policies on publications in Scopus and ISI Thomson journals to be announced by the top management.