Section Section Topic Here Your guide to courses, workshops and member activities Events Audit and assurance Introduction to IT auditing This seminar, run by Wee Teong Cheah, director of risk management services at RSM Nelson Wheeler Consulting Ltd., will outline the basic components of information technology auditing. It will introduce audit concerns and required controls as they apply to IT, as well as techniques for auditing currently installed systems and new systems under development. CPD hours: 1.5 Language: English Date: 13 January Time: 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Audit sampling This course will talk about a statistical approach using inverse gamma distribution to set sample sizes and project sample results in accordance with auditing standards. The speaker, Paul Yeung, is an experienced consultant, writer and lecturer in financial reporting, auditing and business ethics. CPD hours: 3 Language: English Date: 21 January Time: 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Insolvency PRC Insolvency preparatory I course This course, designed for those wishing to pursue a career in insolvency or related areas, will be held on five Saturday afternoons starting 27 February. It focuses on building broad knowledge and understanding of the basic principles of insolvency administration. Course presenters are experienced insolvency practitioners from accounting and legal firms. Those who have successfully completed preparatory I course or who have at least 18 months of insolvency experience can enrol in insolvency preparatory II starting in May. CPD hours: 20 Language: English Dates: 27 February, 13, 27 March and 10, 24 April Time: 2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Development grants for the service sector from the Shanghai municipal government The Shanghai Development and Reform Commission has allocated 200 million yuan for supplementary grants to new businesses with significant potential. In this seminar, participants will learn how to assist their clients in preparing and applying for the grant, which is available until 2011. CPD hours: 1.5 Language: Cantonese Date: 6 January Time: 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. 23 Positive quotient: How to improve your performance without talking about it Financial reporting Positive thinking does not guarantee success, 58 January 2010 Illustration: Art Glazer/Getty Images Updates on IFRS 9 Financial Instruments: Classification and Measurement In this seminar, Yin Toa Lee, financial services partner of Ernst & Young, will provide updates on practical implementation issues that come into effect with phase one of IFRS 9 and how these could impact your business. CPD hours: 1.5 Language: English Date: 3 February Time: 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. but there is no success without it. This workshop – run by Sidney Sze, chief executive of Midland Financial Group and founding president of the Society of Registered Financial Planners – aims to encourage fellow accountants to experiment, take risks, open up and conduct cross-system thinking in their career. CPD hours: 3.5 Language: English Date: 23 January Time: 9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. January S M T W T F S 3 4 5 6 10 11 12 13 17 18 19 20 24 31 25 26 27 7 14 21 28 1 2 8 9 15 16 22 23 29 30 February S M T W T F S 1 2 3 7 8 9 10 14 15 16 17 21 22 23 24 28 4 11 18 25 A PLUS A PLUS 5 6 12 13 19 20 26 27 Visit the Institute’s website for other programmes and to enrol and pay online: www.hkicpa.org.hk. PRC Workshops on PRC taxation This series of workshops is designed to provide comprehensive knowledge of the PRC tax framework, tax laws and practices on income, and turnover taxes applicable to foreign investors doing business in China. It will also cover individual income tax, enterprise income tax and transfer pricing. CPD hours: 15 Language: English/Cantonese Date: 9 January – 6 February (all Saturdays) Time: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (English) 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. (Chinese) 26 Young accountants mingle night – networking and negotiating Marketing professional service firms in Asia If you want to improve your firm’s performance by using marketing knowledge management, this seminar is for you. The speaker, Robert Sawhney, managing director of SRC Associates Ltd., will show you how to understand and embrace marketing in a professional service firm. CPD hours: 1.5 Language: English Date: 11 January Time: 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Leadership and business strategy Entrepreneurship: practical lessons This seminar will discuss an in-depth study of entrepreneurship, including a real leadership case on turnaround strategy following the financial tsunami. The speaker is Joe Leung, Illustration: McMillan Digital Art/Getty Images Business and professional knowledge director of Middlesex SME Studies Centre, who has extensive experience in business, consulting and executive training. CPD hours: 1.5 Language: Cantonese Date: 14 January Time: 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Values, ethics and attitudes Wellbeing and stress management in the workplace Co-organized with the Chartered Accountants’ Benevolent Association, this workshop provides information and training for members on how to recognize the causes, signs and symptoms of stress, and how to cope with it. It will also look at strategies for Meet for drinks and hear Sean Lin, one of Hong Kong’s 10 Outstanding Young Persons in 2006, share his experience on how to be a good negotiator. He is a crisis negotiator, presenter and trainer on various topics from leadership to pubic speaking. CPD hour: 1 Date: 26 January Time: 6:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. (Drinks) 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. (Talk) Venue: Members’ lounge enhancing the performance and wellbeing of members and their staff. CPD hours: 3 Language: Cantonese Date: 6 and 15 January Time: 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Member activities CPA football competition Members, registered students and CPA practitioners are welcome to form their own teams for this seven-a-side competition to compete for the Charles Mar Fan Cup. Each team can register a maximum of 15 players. Date: 9 January (1st match) Other matches are scheduled for weekends in January and February Venue: Kowloon Tsai Park January 2010 59