ACCA'S students committee completes another successful corporate
race
The ACCA Corporate Race, organized by the students committee of ACCA
was a thrilling, race-against-time event, where twelve teams battled it
out for the winning cash prize.
This year the teams comprised of ACCA tuition providers that
consisted of CCBT (Cosmopolitan College of Business and Technology that
had two teams participating, Mercury Institute of Management with two
teams participating, (KAIMS) Knowledge Abet Institute of Management
Studies, (KBBS) Knowledge Based Business Studies, and Neptune
Edification Kandy.
Nilusha Ranasinghe, Head of ACCA with the winners |
The non ACCA teams that took part in the event were (APIIT) Asia
Pacific Institute of Information Technology, (BMS) Business Management
School, Spartans and (ICBT) International College of Business and
Technology.
The teams faced challenges at the corporate offices/outlets of six
chosen companies. The companies participating in this event were from
diverse sectors that included Ernest and Young for a challenge in
outsourcing, Unilever for a challenge on employer branding, Amba
Research Lanka Pvt Ltd, for a challenge of capital market investments,
Brandix Mercury that included a challenge on what can differentiate
Brandix as a Finance and Accounting outsourcing service provider in the
international market of Outsourcing, Bread Talk that consisted of a
challenge on product promotion and customer feedback and Grand Oriental
Hotel in a challenge on marketing enhancements’.
Commencing the race at 8.15 a.m. from Independence Square with a
Captains race, in which APIIT emerged winners, the teams dispersed from
Independence Square to face six different challenges at each of the
respective organizations.
At each organization, the teams had to complete challenges that
tested their skills, knowledge, intelligence, ability to think on their
feet and time management. Each team was given 30 minutes to complete a
given task.
The winners were judged on the number of tasks they have completed
and the total marks that they have obtained as a result.
The event was followed by a Networking Cocktail Event where the
winners were presented with their awards.
This year's winners consisted of the second runners up, Mercury team
one captained by Umar Fareez and the KAIMS team captained by Pasindu
Jayarathne, where the awards were handed over by Ms. Nilusha Ranasinghe
Head of ACCA Sri Lanka and the first Runners up, which were the BMS team
captained by Dhanuka Konara who received their award from Praveen Ruberu,
Senior Director transaction, advisory and services Ernest and Young.
The winners of the Corporate Race were the CCBT team two captained by
Priyanka Kathirvel who carried away the award given by Ms. Sarah Yousuf,
Vice President Amba Research Lanka Pvt. Ltd.
Giving her thoughts on the event, Ms. Nilusha Ranasinghe, Head of
ACCA Sri Lanka stated that, "strongly believe that events of this nature
are focused on developing the leadership abilities of our students,
which is an important skill that they require in today's corporate
world.
To develop organizational leaders we need to understand how requisite
skills are acquired over the course of people's careers, specially at
the very initial stages of them as students where the importance of such
skills need to be ingrained in them. This is what we try to do through
initiatives such as the corporate race that gives them an insight into
what is required of them in the corporate world." |