HONG KONG and MACAU, Oct. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Launched by ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) Hong Kong since 2007, this is the 6th ACCA Hong Kong Business Competition to be held this year. This competition opens for Degree and Sub-degree students, inviting all full-time accounting and business degree and sub-degree students from local institutes to participate. Upon the close of enrolment last Friday (19 October), the organiser had received applications from a total of 603 teams with more than 2,100 students enrolled. There are over 200 teams of degree students and close to 400 teams of sub-degree students compete for the Championship of the respective categories.
Having Create Hong Kong (CreateHK) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region as the Partner Organisation, this year's Competition invites contesting teams, comprising two to four students as members, to simulate a non-profit making project that is conducive to the development of creative industries in Hong Kong for an institution/organisation and prepare a business proposal for this project to bid a sponsorship from CreateHK's CreateSmart Initiative (CSI). The projects to be covered by the Competition shall fall under any of the following creative sectors, ranging from advertising, architecture, animation, comics and digital entertainment, music, publishing, to television, with a budget not exceeding HK$3 million. These requirements are tailored for this Competition which is slightly different from the original eligibility of CSI.
Brenda Lam, Head of Learning and Development of ACCA Hong Kong, said that the competition aims to provide students an effective platform for equipping students with thorough analytical skills, business proposal writing skills, presentation skills and communication skills through working in a team environment in a real and interesting business situation.
After reviewing the participating teams' proposals, the top five finalist teams of each group will be invited to present their proposals to the panel of judges during the Final Competition on 1 December (Degree) and 8 December (Sub-degree) to compete for the championship.
To learn more about the Competition, please visit:
www.accabusinesscompetition.com
Notes to editors:
Partner Organisation:
Create Hong Kong (CreateHK)
Company Sponsors:
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young, KPMG, Michael Page International, PwC, The Hung Hing Ying & Leung Hau Ling Charitable Foundation
Supporting Organisation:
UNESCO Hong Kong Association
Chinese Newspaper Media Partner:
Ming Pao Newspapers Limited
English Newspaper Media Partner:
South China Morning Post
Official Recruitment Partner:
Classified Post
About ACCA
ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) is the global body for professional accountants. We aim to offer business-relevant, first-choice qualifications to people of application, ability and ambition around the world who seek a rewarding career in accountancy, finance and management. As the first global accountancy body entering into China, ACCA now has over 22,600 members and 42,500 students, with 7 offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong SAR, and Macau SAR.
Founded in 1904, ACCA has consistently held unique core values: opportunity, diversity, innovation, integrity and accountability. We believe that accounting professionals bring value to economies in all stages of development. We aim to develop capacity in the profession and encourage the adoption of consistent global standards. Our values are aligned to the needs of employers in all sectors and we ensure that, through our qualifications, we prepare accountants for business. We work to open up the profession to people of all backgrounds and remove artificial barriers to entry, ensuring that our qualifications and their delivery meet the diverse needs of trainee professionals and their employers.
We support our 154,000 members and 432,000 students in 170 countries, helping them to develop successful careers in accounting and business, with the skills needed by employers. We work through a network of over 80 offices and centres and more than 8,400 Approved Employers worldwide, who provide high standards of employee learning and development.
About Create Hong Kong
"Create Hong Kong" (CreateHK) is a dedicated office set up by the HKSAR Government to lead, champion and drive the development of the creative economy in Hong Kong. Set up in June 2009, it co-ordinates the Government policy regarding creative industries, focuses Government's resources catering for the promotion and speeding up of the development of creative industries in Hong Kong, and works closely with the trade to boost the development of creative industries. The CreateSmart Initiative (CSI) is administered under CreateHK which provides funding support to initiatives that are conducive to the development of creative industries.
