Under the mentorship of Shubatra Shanmugaretnam and Rohizan Ahmad from the School of Accounting, Finance and Quantitative Studies (SAFIQS) and the School of Business & Management, a team of APU students made it as one of the finalists at the recently concluded CIMA Global Business Challenge Malaysia 2015. Team ROSH Consultant whose talented, dedicated and ambitious members were Aminath Shafeeq, Baskaran Muniandy, Suha Mahmood and Tan Lim Wei. Their success in the competition was based on their detailed analysis and awesome presentation of a business case study.
The finals of the challenge was held on Monday, 15th June 2015 at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) which saw participation of 53 teams from various institutions of higher learning. A total of 3 teams from APU participated in the event. The CIMA Global Business Challenge is an annual effort by Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) in partnership with Barclays, to develop and nurture young talents around the world and to bring out the best in the young business leaders of tomorrow.
The Challenge provided students with great exposure to real-world business and management, as well as provided them with the golden opportunity for them to showcase their talents in business management and to learn to become successful business leaders of the future. Our appreciation as well to all students who participated in the challenge and thumbs up to the mentors for your dedicated effort!