MASC 2018

1^st Day (26^th January)

Morning of MASC

KDU students that paticipated in MASC

Malaysian Accounting Students Convention (MASC), the camp that everyone has been looking forward to. The event is organised by the University of Malaya Accounting Club (UMAC) and it has been bringing both private and public tertiary institutions together from all around Malaysia.

This camp has been talked about several times by our senior. This year, it was held from 26^th to 28^th of January. This is the recap of what happened on the first day of camp.

We started off with registration and breakfast. After that, we begin our journey to the main venue where all of our activities were held throughout the camp. The opening ceremony started with a bang by a spectacular opening gimmick that made everyone stare in awe.

After the ceremony was over, right before we head for our lunch, we had a short gaming session using ‘Kahoot.com’ and it brought out the competitive side of every participants. It was then time to feed our hungry bellies after such a competitive game session.

Lunch time

Once lunch time was over, we proceeded to the career booths which were around the foyer area of the hall. Companies such as BDO, Great Eastern, EY, ACCA and etc. opened up booths. After that, we had an interactive session with the Diamond sponsor of the event.

We also had the founder of Brad Yourself Agency, Mr. Steve Wee who gave a talk titled ‘My Story: Empowering the Youth’. After the talk, it was time to get to know our group members by having ice-breaking games.

After getting to know one another, we had our first meal with our team members to create a better bond with each other. It was a wholesome meal.

We gathered together in the main hall after our dinner to have a quick introduction and briefing for our survival game. This year’s theme was a mysterious crime investigation. Supper was much needed after walking around looking for clues.

2^nd Day (27^th January 2018)]

2nd Day of MASC

After our much needed breakfast, we had to look for our group members to go on with our second day.

The first activity was called, Path Of Ancient. They had this big ‘board map’ on the floor and they gave each group a dice. It’s a fun game where you have to answer a few questions or play some games to win. 

Later in the evening we had our first workshop of the event. This intriguing workshop titled, The Art Of Negotiation was carried out by Mr. Beh Leong Kee. The workshop was definitely an eye opener for everyone as we learnt a lot about negotiating.

Next, it’s time for the Forum – Implementation of GST in Malaysia. This forum definitely changed our perspectives of things for the better and gave us a better understanding about GST. We also had 3 Panelists’, Mr. Alan Chung from Grant Thornton, Mr. Yeoh Cheng Guan from EY, Mrs. Yap Lai Han from PwC and Mr. Arief Putera Mohd Sharipudin from IRBM.

It was then time for, The KL Adventure, the activity that we have been waiting. Our journey started from Dataran Merdeka and we had to only use the LRT to get to our targeted station. Every station has it owns mission to complete and number of coupons will be given depending on the difficulty of the task. It was tiring but we had lots of fun running around KL playing all the station games.

Next was the, Ingenuous Session, we had to draw a mind map to present our ideas for the 3^rd day morning presentation. The last activity we had for the day was we shared stories among our group mates where we were given a picture to choose from.

3^rd Day (28^th January 2018)

Last day of MASC

As usual, we kicked off our day with breakfast! The third day was a bit nerve-wrecking for participants as we need to be presenting.

Just like how groups were named by Malaysian foods, we need to convince the judges using 4Ps concepts, product, price, place, promotion on how we will market our product. Not just presentation, we had small debate session on spontaneous topic. With a sigh of relief, we head over for lunch! We had spaghetti Bolognese.

After that we went back to the main hall for closing ceremony. Each group were given hampers, they also announced the winners for KL adventure and to be proud of! One of our KDU’s student was awarded with ‘Best Participant Award’. Right after the ceremony we had photography session and saying goodbyes to the teammates and facilitators, packed our stuffs and ready to go back home!