Challenges of Finding Potential UBS Project Company

    We are now into Week 4 of our Semester.  Our main task for this week is to find a potential company who is willing to participate in our UBS Accounting System Project.

 
As given by our lecturer, Mr. Noreffendy, the main objectives of the project are : 

• to help to convert an organization that uses manual accounting system 
• to computerized accounting system to implement the uses of computerized accounting software in a real life situation

 This project will then be registered as part of Graduate Employability Skills (GEM’s) under Community Service.

For this UBS project, there are three of us, Ezuan, Farhan and Farid. We approaches a few companies in nearby areas in Shah Alam and Klang. We explained to them about the project and the benefits of this project to them. Initially they said that they will think about it but when we call on them again, many of them rejected us when we mention that we require transactions documents from them such as receipts, invoices, bank statements, cash books and cheque slips. 

 

Their main reasons for rejection is that their documents are confidential and they hardly know us to trust us with their company transaction details. Another reason is that their transactions documents are not properly kept and some are missing. 

This is a real challenge for us to find a company who is willing to participate in the project. It is not as easy as we thought. Even though we told the companies that the UBS Project will bring a lot of benefits to them through increase in productivity and efficiency as their transaction system will be computerized, …. the potential company is still not easy to find.

We even contacted an agricultural company rearing goats in large scale in Muar, Johor which one of us knew the owner and he is willing to participate. But, on second thought we do not choose the company because it will be difficult as we have to travel far and it will take at least 3 hours to reach the company.

 Alhamdulillah, 

finally we see some lights at the end of a tunnel. 

We find a company in Putrajaya 

that is willing to participate in the UBS Project.  

The name of the company is Setia Maju Mini Mart and   the owner is Mr. Mohd. Ali bin Abdul Majis.