BBA students garner ten ACCA awards

22 Dec 2014

Undergraduate

Achievements

Department of Accountancy

Congratulations to CityU BBA students for winning ten awards at the ACCA Hong Kong Business Competition 2014, organized by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) on 22nd November. The competition this year attracted nearly 500 entries and 2,000 students. The competing teams were asked to formulate innovate business proposals, backed up with thorough market research, based on the theme of “empowering families living in poverty”.

Awards and the winning team members:

Award	Team members
First Runner-up Most Creative Team My Favourite Team	Team Dreamatic Sam Hon Yu-ping, Year 3 Marketing Hanson Chiu Shing-wui, Year 3 Business Analysis Yama Hui Nga Man, Year 3 Accountancy Jennifer Tang Jung-wah, Year 3 Marketing Information Management
Best Presenter	Jennifer Tang Jung-wah
Merit	Ching-yin Ma, Year 3 Information Management Shuk-ying Poon, Year 3 Marketing Kwan-ling Law, Year 3 Business Analysis Sin-ting Lee, Year 3 Business Analysis
Judges’ Commendation	Hong-ting Cheng, Year 3 Finance Yi-tung Chan, Year 3 Marketing Tsz-ching Lau, Year 3 Accountancy Ka-hei Cheung, Year 2 Accountancy
Judges’ Commendation	Kristy Chung Hiu-ying, Year 2 Marketing Tsz-ying Chan, Year 2 Accountancy Chi-lan Lam, Year 2 Accountancy Ching-ki Tam, Year 3 Accountancy
Judges’ Commendation	Wing-tim Siu, Year 3 Accountancy Shan-shan Tsoi, Year 3 Accountancy Cho-kwan Tang, Year 3 Accountancy Yook-wo Lui, Year 3 Accountancy
Judges’ Commendation	Man-ho So, Year 3 Marketing Ming-sum Tung, Year 3 Information System and Accounting Yi-ching Poon, Year 3 Marketing Wing-sum Hui, Year 2 International Business in Japanese Studies
Judges’ Commendation	Agnes Fan Bilin, Year 3 Finance Yuanzhen Cai, Year 3 Finance Chunyou Liu, Year 3 Accountancy Wenjing Shi, Year 3 Accountancy

Team Dreamatic won the First Runner-up, Most Creative Team, and My Favourite Team awards. They proposed to set up an event management company called Dreamatic, hiring ethnic minorities and featuring their cultural traditions as the company’s event themes. The proposal aimed to provide training and working opportunities to ethnic minorities as well as to promote cultural diversity in Hong Kong.

“By forming a team and working on a project together, we leveraged our respective areas of expertise and developed diverse ideas. The process was interesting,” Jennifer Tang of Team Dreamatic commented. Jennifer was named the Best Presenter.

Jane Cheng, head of ACCA Hong Kong, believes that the competition not only helped sharpen the contestants’ business acumen, but raised their awareness of social issues. “Through this competition, we aim to polish their analytical skills, proposal-writing skills, communication skills and teamwork. We also want today’s youth to visualise the challenges that underprivileged families face daily,” she said.

Yama Hui of Team Dreamatic remarked: "Everyone is born with talent. You can always do better than expected. As long as we have passion, we can be powerful. With this strength, we will turn our dreams into reality. Aim high and dream high."

Agnes Fan, one of the winning team members of the Judges' Commendation Award, concluded her experience: “These achievements owed much to my hardworking teammates and teachers who gave us advice. We have become more aware of the current social issues and are committed to social responsibility now and in the future.”

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For more information about the ACCA competition, please visit event page.