Pre-Meeting With Prof Binshan Lin

Prof Binshan Lin arrived from the United States this afternoon and he is staying at the Summit Hotel in USJ. Prof Faridah, Dr Leonora and myself had a pre-meeting with Prof Lin discussing on future collaboration, co-authorship and registering of journals with ISI. Our workshop will start tomorrow.

AMARC Meeting With Branch Lecturers

The CIMA-UiTM Asian Management Accounting Research Centre (AMARC) held a meeting on Thursday & Friday with representatives from the branch campuses. Discussions were focused on planning research activities between the Shah Alam group and the branch campuses.

Visiting Professor Glen Moyes

Professor Glen Moyes is a CPA (USA) and he specializes in forensic accounting, in particular "Fraud Risk Indicators". He has been working on developing the fraud indicators over the last 20 years. He is coming to Malaysia in mid June 2009. ARI members, please meet up with him. He has indicated his willingness to spend summer 2010 in Malaysia and working with researchers who are interested to publish in forensic accounting.

Four Papers for Binshan Workshop

I managed to complete four articles within a period of one week for the ISI workshop with Professor Binshan. Wow, that is quite an accomplishment. They are still very raw, but I am hoping to work with Prof Binshan for possible publication in the US. "If there's a will, there's a way"....

Dreams

One of the researchers gave me this big poscard a while ago, but I never paid much attention to it. Nevertheless, it has been placed on the wall in my office. However, lately as we were working very hard updating our databases with information on publications, research, citation, industry linkages, consultancy etc for the RU status, I saw it again and I told myself, "wow, what a concept!". This statement applies to UiTM....

For the Sake of ISI Publication....

Today has been a very busy day for Dr Rozainun, Deputy Dean and I as we have been "running around" after participants for Prof Binshan workshop on 1-5 June 2009. The 25 participants were supposed to have submitted their papers by yesterday. Well the running around was worth it as at the end of today, we were able to gather all 25 papers. Better still, some participants even have up to four papers per person. What can I say, it is indeed a "good problem" to solve. More papers for ISI publications!.. I am not complaining. Thanks everyone for cooperating

ARI-USRN Collaboration: A Possibility

I received this email from Dr Edward Ssemwanga, Deputy Vice Chancellor of a university in Uganda for a possible collaboration with ARI & UiTM. "Dear Prof Dr Normah Omar, I am a Ugandan and currently a lecturer and consultant in the areas of Corporate Governance, Management and Accounting. I am keenly interested in working with your esteemed Institute in research in various areas of interest. I have founded a research network which is Uganda Sustainability Research Network. Uganda Sustainability Research Network (USRN) is an academic network, carrying out research in Uganda on economic, financial, educational, social, environmental, governance, agricultural, energy and gender issues. USRN carries out its activities in close collaboration with worldwide research networks, individuals and other organizations. It is established by multi-disciplinary researchers from Uganda and from the rest of the world in order to support Government of Uganda’s efforts to achieve its goals within a sustainable framework. Special attention is being paid to research in factors that impinge on the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Dr Andrew Ssemwanga". Good prospect for our research centres CGRC & APCeS