Sizeable Group AFARe Seminar

As per Friday afternoon, the total number of regitered participants for our International Conference for Forensic Accounting & Financial Criminology stood at 190and counting. The conference will be held on 16-17 June at the Kuala Lumpur Tower. A one-day PhD colloqium will be held prior to the conference on 15th June 2009.

Another Round of FRGS Evaluation

The next fundamental research grant scheme (FRGS)proposal evaluation will be held in Port Dickson on 2-5 June 2009. ARI had submitted twelve new applications and we hope we will get them Insyaallah. Just like the last three years, I have been appointed as one of the assessors for the Social Science group.

Another Blog Class

Since the examination meeting finished earlier than scheduled, the lecturers had requested for Puan Intan Salwani to conduct another blog class on Friday afternoon. It was a success. Program leaders can actually use blogs to communicate more effectively with their students.

Meeting of Program Leaders

ARI gave a briefing to program leaders who were at the faculty today. We discussed about research spin-offs and the need to strategize on research and publication for the sake of their career. Insyaallah ARI will be going round visiting branch campuses to promote ARI to branch lecturers.

33 Articles for Prof Binshan Workshop.....

What appeared to be so "slow coming", suddenly the number of papers we received from workshop participants totalled 33 today. I can only conclude that if we really put our heart to it, we can produce. Great job everyone. Hopefully we are able to work and rework on the papers and publish them in Scopus & ISI journals.

Congratulations Graduate Fellow Hesri

Congratulations Mr Hesri Din, one of ARI's graduate fellows for his graduation. Hesri was confered with the Master in Forensic Accounting and Financial Criminology. The conferment was graced by the YMM Tuanku Agong yesterday. His thesis entitled "The Use Of Fraud Risk Red Flags By Auditors To Detect Financial Criminology - Malaysian Evidence" has been quite instrumental and contributes significantly to the accounting profession. With the assistance received from Professor Glen Moyes, Texas, we have been able to submit our articles for major journal publications in the USA. Congratulation again Hesri, we are very proud of you.

Asian Business Forum (ABF)

Those ARI members who are keen to participate either as speakers or chairpersons for the Asian Business Forum, kindly contact Ms Nikki for details. ABF organizes specialized seminars targeting company directors, CEOs and MDs. Recently I was invited as a speaker on "Financial Fraud Indicators". It is an extremely good place to network. Nikki's contact details are as follows:
Ms Nikki Ong
Conference Development Manager
Asia Business Forum
Suite 20.05, Level 20, Wisma Goldhill
67 Jalan Raja Chulan, 50200 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 603-2070 3299 Ext:109
Fax:603-2070-3369
www.abf-asia.com

Prof Binshan Writing Workshop

To date we have received about twelve papers from those who are participating in Prof Binshan's writing workshop scheduled on 1-5 June 2009. These papers will be emailed to Prof Binshan. This is to facilitate the running of the workshop. We really need to be effective so that all papers will ultimately be published in ISI journals. It is therefore important that Prof Binshan receives your papers before his arrival. Part of the workshop program will involve one-on-one discussions between individual writers and Prof Binshan. Those who are yet to submit your papers, please do so by Thursday, the latest. We are also inviting some RU committee to be present on the first day of the workshop. There's also request that the workshop be taped so that others can view the video later on.

E-Book Demo by Sciencedirect

The E-book demo by Sciencedirect publisher will be held on 5th June 2009 at 11.00 am. The PTAR is organising the demo and all ARI members (particularly those are are more inclined to write books) are invited and encouraged to attend.

Reflections...

After receiving the notes from Khasiah re: Talk by Prof Asma on RU, I realised that we just need to FOCUS. Everything we do for ARI this year must focus on producing ISI and Scopus publications. The Malim Sarjana project with Prof Binshan in June will hopefully produce some 20 ISI publications this year. Our seven research centres: FRRC, CGRC, AMARC, APCeS, AFARe, CeRIA and PSARC must work on securing international grants. Researchers should also focus on presenting papers at conferences that are linked with ISI and Scopus. No more talking, just DO IT.