Din: Dunia ini bulat Kasim. Ke mana kau nak lari?
Kasim: Aku tak lari. Aku berada di sini.Din: Ah, aku tak kisah semua itu! Aku nak kau bayar apa yang kau hutang!
Kasim: Hei, aku tak ambil satu sen pun duit kau tau!Din: Puas aku mencari kau. Sekarang kau bayar hutang aku!
Kasim: Aaaah!Din: Kau bayar seratus lima puluh aku sekarang jugak!
***
I heard this conversation between two of my friends.
R: Alaa, kau kata je nak stay jadi auditor sebab kau nak jadi CFO by 40 tahun. Tapi kalau kau mati tahun depan macam mana?
S: Isy, tak naklah aku mati jadi auditor. Nanti mati penuh penyesalan.
Hahaha. Betul kata cicak.
Actually, I don't really know what to expect anymore. The fact that I'll be on a month's leave in just a week or so has clouded my vision for anything beyond that. All that I can see is lazing around in my house while I play with Imran, my nephew. The thing is, a KPC (kay poh chee) that I am (or what my chinese friends labelled me as Sampat - the Malay translation would be penyibux), I've looked through everyone's name in the job allocation matrix, and I've found out that at least, 7 of my friends have left or are leaving soon. Not a good motivation to hang in there is it? More like a motivation to be hanged.
It will all depend on that one meeting that I'm having somewhere in May with a certain someone on a certain level of a certain tower.
So meanwhile, I have found out some reasons why, if you want to be an auditor in Malaysia, you shouldn't have studied in France, or, if you've studied in France, why you shouldn't even think of becoming an auditor in Malaysia.
1. Syllabus
In France, the syllabus is too general during the first two years and to specialise in the final year is a little too late. I've wasted many many hours studying psychology, sociology, marketing, communication, and who can forget the ever-so-boring administrative law (law that only applies to public institutions). On the accounting side, we spent too much time on bookkeeping. At one point, I even learnt the double entries for cows (do you know that if you're rearing the cow for it's milk, it's fixed asset, but if you're planning to turn it into delicous slices of beef patties, it's stock?)
2. Terms
The first day of my training in Petronas, I asked myself 'What in the devil's name is accounts payable?'. Shouldn't all accounts be payable? It turns out that it's the equivalent of account 401-Fournisseurs (suppliers) in the French system. I even have trouble understanding the alien term of accruals when I started working in PwC (FYI it's 408- Fournisseurs, factures non parvenues or Suppliers, for invoices yet to be received). It takes time to learn back all the terms in English, let alone BM (Pemiutang, hutang terakru?)
3. Policies and Principles
The French are known to be going against the world in everything. Everything. Including accounting principles. It's form over substance there, but it's substance over form here. So it's quite confusing, especially leasehold items (Credit-bail). Why would I have a leasehold item in my fixed assets when it's really obvious I do not own the land? You will lose a lot of time arguing with yourself on the accounting treatment when you try to apply the French mindset in the Anglo-Saxon world.
4. Marketing scam
My degree is called Accounting, Finance and Audit. The closest thing to audit that we learned in class was during a 3 hours career talk. Even that, the auditor spoke only for 15 minutes. To be honest, I don't even know what's auditor in French. Expert-comptable? Commissaire-aux-comptes? Auditeurs is certainly not it, because it means, someone who listens (from the latin word audio)
5. Standards
In a normal Anglo-Saxon system like in Malaysia, when someone says they already learned about financial reporting standards (FRS), they actually meant that they've leaned some, if not all, of the accounting standards, what are they, what are they about and how to apply them. What we learn is also about FRS. No, we learned about IFRS - INTERNATIONAL FRS. But we don't learn about all that nonsense like what are they or how to apply them. We, learned the history side of it. WHAT is IFRS, WHO issues IFRS, WHEN was IASB founded, WHO is IASB. The things where in Malaysia, would only be a paragraph in the FRS chapter, we learned it as a whole chapter without even learning what are those IFRSs.
And the top reason is
6. Rights!
We are so used to situations where we can just decide not to do something, because we have the rights to not do it. And if I have the rights for it, no one can take it away from me. They even have a saying 'Your rights begin where mine end'.
So you wouldn't want to sacrifice your weekends because it's your rights to have two resting days. You wouldn't want to work after 5.30pm because that's your right to work only during the hours stipulated in your contract. Even if you need to work late, you wouldn't want to work more than 40 hours a week (35 only applies in France unfortunately), because it's in written in the law. Even if you need to work more than 40 hours a week, you would want every extra hour to be compensated without any lame excuse (like, 'oooh, we've burst our budget' or even stupider, 'you are just not efficient'), and even that shouldn't be more than 48 hours a week because anything beyond that is illegal.
So, if you want to be an auditor, stay away from France!
I heard this conversation between two of my friends.
R: Alaa, kau kata je nak stay jadi auditor sebab kau nak jadi CFO by 40 tahun. Tapi kalau kau mati tahun depan macam mana?
S: Isy, tak naklah aku mati jadi auditor. Nanti mati penuh penyesalan.
Hahaha. Betul kata cicak.
Actually, I don't really know what to expect anymore. The fact that I'll be on a month's leave in just a week or so has clouded my vision for anything beyond that. All that I can see is lazing around in my house while I play with Imran, my nephew. The thing is, a KPC (kay poh chee) that I am (or what my chinese friends labelled me as Sampat - the Malay translation would be penyibux), I've looked through everyone's name in the job allocation matrix, and I've found out that at least, 7 of my friends have left or are leaving soon. Not a good motivation to hang in there is it? More like a motivation to be hanged.
It will all depend on that one meeting that I'm having somewhere in May with a certain someone on a certain level of a certain tower.
So meanwhile, I have found out some reasons why, if you want to be an auditor in Malaysia, you shouldn't have studied in France, or, if you've studied in France, why you shouldn't even think of becoming an auditor in Malaysia.
1. Syllabus
In France, the syllabus is too general during the first two years and to specialise in the final year is a little too late. I've wasted many many hours studying psychology, sociology, marketing, communication, and who can forget the ever-so-boring administrative law (law that only applies to public institutions). On the accounting side, we spent too much time on bookkeeping. At one point, I even learnt the double entries for cows (do you know that if you're rearing the cow for it's milk, it's fixed asset, but if you're planning to turn it into delicous slices of beef patties, it's stock?)
2. Terms
The first day of my training in Petronas, I asked myself 'What in the devil's name is accounts payable?'. Shouldn't all accounts be payable? It turns out that it's the equivalent of account 401-Fournisseurs (suppliers) in the French system. I even have trouble understanding the alien term of accruals when I started working in PwC (FYI it's 408- Fournisseurs, factures non parvenues or Suppliers, for invoices yet to be received). It takes time to learn back all the terms in English, let alone BM (Pemiutang, hutang terakru?)
3. Policies and Principles
The French are known to be going against the world in everything. Everything. Including accounting principles. It's form over substance there, but it's substance over form here. So it's quite confusing, especially leasehold items (Credit-bail). Why would I have a leasehold item in my fixed assets when it's really obvious I do not own the land? You will lose a lot of time arguing with yourself on the accounting treatment when you try to apply the French mindset in the Anglo-Saxon world.
4. Marketing scam
My degree is called Accounting, Finance and Audit. The closest thing to audit that we learned in class was during a 3 hours career talk. Even that, the auditor spoke only for 15 minutes. To be honest, I don't even know what's auditor in French. Expert-comptable? Commissaire-aux-comptes? Auditeurs is certainly not it, because it means, someone who listens (from the latin word audio)
5. Standards
In a normal Anglo-Saxon system like in Malaysia, when someone says they already learned about financial reporting standards (FRS), they actually meant that they've leaned some, if not all, of the accounting standards, what are they, what are they about and how to apply them. What we learn is also about FRS. No, we learned about IFRS - INTERNATIONAL FRS. But we don't learn about all that nonsense like what are they or how to apply them. We, learned the history side of it. WHAT is IFRS, WHO issues IFRS, WHEN was IASB founded, WHO is IASB. The things where in Malaysia, would only be a paragraph in the FRS chapter, we learned it as a whole chapter without even learning what are those IFRSs.
And the top reason is
6. Rights!
We are so used to situations where we can just decide not to do something, because we have the rights to not do it. And if I have the rights for it, no one can take it away from me. They even have a saying 'Your rights begin where mine end'.
So you wouldn't want to sacrifice your weekends because it's your rights to have two resting days. You wouldn't want to work after 5.30pm because that's your right to work only during the hours stipulated in your contract. Even if you need to work late, you wouldn't want to work more than 40 hours a week (35 only applies in France unfortunately), because it's in written in the law. Even if you need to work more than 40 hours a week, you would want every extra hour to be compensated without any lame excuse (like, 'oooh, we've burst our budget' or even stupider, 'you are just not efficient'), and even that shouldn't be more than 48 hours a week because anything beyond that is illegal.
So, if you want to be an auditor, stay away from France!
1 comment:
ko xnak mention ke yg ko xde konvo kt france tuh kim?
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