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.