Toothache!

Just past through a very painful week. Makan sup ekor, tersalah gigit dan buat gigiku bernanah. Siksanya Allah juga yg tahu. Tak banyak kerja dpt disiapkan.
 Just sent a revised version of e-government paper to TGPP and received a very quick response. A little bit more to make it publishable. I love the way the chief editor deal with my paper and definitely will send more fresh papers to that journal.


Finished respond to students project draft this morning. So incomplete. Hope they can improve for final version. More work to get done but definitely not this weekend. Erghhh.. this toothache still disturbing my concentration!

Motivation

What else can motivate people nowadays? Nothing else but money. Although its true, I dont really take that as 100%  correct.  I dont blame for rewards and initiatives to make academicians think and write, hence produce high impact articles. That is very motivated. But somehow, those money goes to those who already in writing mood.. not those who start to write. I, myself, took sometime to get into the tune of writing journal articles. It is not easy. Not easy to write interesting articles and at the same time academically proven. Not easy to get publish into impact journal. Somehow, we just need to keep going, trying hard to get into the stream - follow the flows and get into the troubles.

Year End Resolution

15 days more to end this year. What have I accomplished so far? Alhamdullillah. I met the target. Publications of one book, 2 book chapters and 3 journal articles as well as numbers of proceedings are more than enough. One paper awarded for best paper in one of the conference attended. Plus 2 articles ready for submission to top ranked journal and 2 articles confirmed publication in 2011.

More to work on next year:

1. A book on offshore outsourcing
2. Articles for journals - 2 e-government, 2 offshore accounting outsourcing and 1  sustainability
3. Cases for MIA Journal - 2 cases
4. Case for GSB - 2 cases

and new application for research grant too. 

Semoga dipermudahkan segalanya. Amin.

Accounting Outsourcing Turnback in Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal

Latest publication this year:

EarlyCite Article
Accounting Outsourcing Turnback: Process and Issues

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Document Information:

Title:	Accounting Outsourcing Turnback: Process and Issues
Author(s):	Dr. RUHANITA MAELAH, (UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA), Dr. Aini Aman, (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia), Dr. Noradiva Hamzah, Dr. Rozita Amiruddin, (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia), Dr. Sofiah Md Auzair
Citation:	Dr. RUHANITA MAELAH, Dr. Aini Aman, Dr. Noradiva Hamzah, Dr. Rozita Amiruddin, Dr. Sofiah Md Auzair, (2010) "Accounting Outsourcing Turnback: Process and Issues", Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal, Vol. 3 Iss: 3
Article type:	Research paper
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Abstract:	Purpose - This article provides understanding on the process of accounting outsourcing turnback from client’s perspective. The aim of this article is to understand the issues faced by clients during turnback process, and provide recommendations to resolve them. Design/methodology/approach - This study adopts a qualitative interpretive case study approach (Walsham, 1995). Data was collected based on documentation, archival records, direct observation and interviews to allow for triangulation. Findings - This study provides empirical evidence of accounting outsourcing turnback process. Some of the issues faced by clients include lack of management support, limited financial and human resources, and uncooperative vendors. Research limitations/implications - Theoretically, this study extends Elliot (1998) model by providing empirical evidence on process, identifying issues, and discussing recommendations on accounting outsourcing turnback. The limitation is the use of a single case study of a small company in Malaysia. Practical implications - The findings will enhance the understanding of the current trends in accounting outsourcing practices in Malaysia and assist regulatory bodies in regulating accounting outsourcing activities. The findings will also provide information and guidelines for companies considering outsourcing turnback as a strategic move. Originality/value - There has been limited research in the area of accounting outsourcing focusing on turnback process. This study contributes to the field of accounting outsourcing by describing an accounting turnback process and issues faced by clients. The study recommends communication, financial support, top management support, back-up exit plan, and vendor management throughout the turnback period. Finally, gradual reduction of accounting outsourced works rather than immediate termination is favored to reduce the risk in accounting outsourcing turnback.

ICITST 2010 London

Wow, it has been quite some time that I didnt update my blog. I could easily blame that on my busy schedules, students, exams, kids, etc. hehe.. anyway, it was me actually who was too lazy to log in and update. Anyway, I just came back from London. Not bad. Despite the 13hours long flight from KL to London, i really enjoy the conference. Although it was a bit technical for me, I take it as a challenge for new knowledge. I stayed from day one to day 3 without fail! I listened and tried to understand every single bit. I should congratulate the organizer for arranging several powerful keynote speakesr. Full of knowledge and very informative. Although I dont really like the food that they served for lunch and dinner, I should know better, that  was English food.. tasteless and not spicy! hehe.. I shouldnt complain right? Plus, my paper will be indexed by IEEE and Thompson ISI.

Anyway, the trip was great especially when I had a chance to meet old friend and did a little shopping here and there. Feel like want to go to London again next year. But, of course with other conference.. :D

Teaching Case: Atarek Kamil

Raya is not over yet, but I'm eager to announce my latest publication in  Asian Case Research Journal (ACRJ), 2010, vol. 14, issue 01, pages 141-158

Atarek Kamil Ibrahim & Co. Chartered Accountants

Zakiah Muhammaddun Mohamed (zmm@ukm.my), Aini Aman, Noradiva Hamzah and Sofiah Md. Auzair


Abstract:Atarek Kamil Ibrahim & Co. Chartered Accountants (hereafter referred to as AKI) is a public accounting firm named after its founder Tuan Haji Atarek Kamil Ibrahim (hereafter referred to as Atarek). The firm offers a wide range of services to its customers since its establishment in 1989. The head office of AKI is in Kuala Lumpur and it has branches in Melaka, Johor Bahru, Ipoh, Kuala Terrengganu, Kota Baru, Kuching, Miri and Kota Kinabalu. The partners of AKI are planning to expand the company by getting more partners from outside to join AKI. They planned to use a different name, ASNAF Chartered Accountants, from 2009 onwards to replace AKI. They initiated the formation of ASNAF (Association of ASEAN Accounting Firms) to propel AKI into the international scene. Currently ASNAF has 8 members comprising accounting firms from Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Laos, Vietnam, Philippines and Malaysia. While the move to expand and rebrand AKI appears to be the only way forward for the company, Atarek must really evaluate whether such move is wise and benefits him and his staff. He must critically assess AKI's current strengths and weaknesses and possible implication of his decisions. He must consider all the other alternatives that he will forgo which include his dream of becoming the first Islamic public accounting firm in the region. The case will reveal that AKI is still plagued with the common problem of small and medium sized public accounting firms in Malaysia that is short of manpower. AKI is also currently in the midst of organizing its control structures among its branches.
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Alhamdulillah.

Sense-making and Imagination

I've done with the above paper. What a relieve. Hopefully, this paper achieves the standard of high impact journal that i aim for. Doest matter how long it takes, i'll make sure this paper pass through the hassel. Insyallah.

I'm now preparing SAP case for dry run tomorrow with the MIA. I wrote this case last month and when I read it again, I'm not sure whether the case suits the accounting student. Well, lets give it a try tomorrow. Open for critiques.


My frgs e-commerce proposal was rejected because of technical reason ( I didnt submit the researchers' cv!) and my application for industry research grant for case development with MPC was rejected because of budget reason (budget too high). Two rejections at a time. Frustrated! Anyway, with positive thinking, I have more time now to focus  on writing articles for journals.  

Thank you Ya Allah Ya Alim.

E-procurement implementation in Malaysia government

I have submitted the above article for review to one of the Emerald journal, yesterday. Hope to receive good feedback or accepted with minor revision.

I am now still rewriting the communicating knowledge article, trying to get the idea of imagination, language and prior experience into a model. This is my first attempt to change my style of writing - generating a theory from data instead of extending existing theory. Hope to get it ready before Raya. Phew...

Ramadhan ya Marhaban

Salam Ramadhan all. Berkat Ramadhan,semoga semua dipermudahkan.

Alhamdulillah syukur, usaha keras selama ini membuahkan hasil. Beberapa article dari hasil kajian geran GUP telah diterima dan akan diterbitkan by end of this year and early next year.

1. Risiko Hubungan dan Kepercayaan dalam Penyumberan-luar Perakaunan - Jurnal Pengurusan Vol 32, 2011
2. Article Outsourcing Turnback - Strategic Outsourcing: International Journal. 
3. Accounting Outsourcing Decision - African Journal Of Business Management.

Thank you Ya Allah.

Book: Accounting Outsourcing in Malaysia

Finally our book is published and will be available to public soon. The book covers activity, risk and control issues of accounting outsourcing in Malaysia. Useful for SMEs or anyone involves in accounting outsourcing tasks.

Switch and Tune

I need to start review the communicating knowledge paper today, or else it wouldnt be ready by end of this week. Opps... tomorrow is friday and that means I am left with 24 hours to get it done. Impossible. I havent touch this paper since last wed. My mind was busy with the offshore accounting outsourcing analysis last week and now I have to set the analysis aside as the transcription need to be reviewed before any further analysis could be done. I have to start switch and tune my mind to the communicating knowledge paper or else I will never get it done!

Too busy

I'm not sure what made me busy but I'm busy...Busy with kids, research and writing... as usual. I need to calm down a little bit and focus. Too much to do and I cannot do everything at once. Ok, lets go back a step behind...listing the jobs that need to be done asap


1. rewrite paper of communicating knowledge - now the intention is to focus on sense-making
2. action research - first visit should be done before end of this month - need to finalise the open-ended questions
3. frgs offshore outsourcing - still reading and analyse the interview transribe - low quality of transciption - have to wait for other transcription/retranscribe before further analysis

4. frgs survival strategy - still looking for interview and cases
5. interpretive paper for IFIP - still not ready - due end of july
6. paper need to be formated n sent to journal - Offshoring and SMEs, Risks and Control in Accounting Outsoucing, eProcurement


waaa everyhing is still hanging .. :|

Just a little bit more

Received feedback for frgs ecommerce proposal. Hehe.. that was a two-hour work and I just need to do a little bit of adjustment to the objective and sample.

Same goes to Outsourcing Turnback paper. Received feedback with few more comments. Just a little bit more before ready to be published..

I'm holding on... dont worry  :P

Journal Case for Integrated Case Study

I was asked to propose a Journal Case for Integrated Case Study, collaboration UKM-MIA. Interesting right? I will prepare a proposal by end of next week and hopefully everything goes well.

Brian responded to my article on communicating knowledge. He wanted a more novel idea for that paper, which means another round of rewriting. I dont mind spending my lifetime on this paper as long as it get publish in a top ranked impact journal. Tomorrow, we will be on SKYPE to discuss this paper. Oops, I need to download SKYPE again. Syyhhhh..

Frust

Finally, I submitted the article on Knowledge Gap to Journal of Knowledge Management. What a relief. I'm now writing on 'Intepretive Case Study - Situating in Research'. I've drafted this article a year ago and its about time to polish and publish. Target journal will be Qualitative Research Journal. Hopefully, I can get it done by end of this week. Too ambitious? Hehe.. hanya Dia yang tahu.

Actually, I am quite frustrated. Not just because of Brazil and Argentina that were not performed in World Cup... its mainly because I feel like I'm working under 'par' with limited resources and support.  *sigh*

Disturbances

I've done nothing else these three days except meetings and entertaining students / salesmen. Haha. Thats why I dont like staying in my office room. I couldnt even get to write even a single sentence. What more, I've to mark exam scripts by this weekend. Grade due next week. This week will definitely burn with admin and teaching stuffs.

Back to Work

This is my first day entering my office room after two weeks holiday. Miss the smell. Hehe..

I am planning to submit research proposal for FRGS. Should it be a continuation research of accounting outsourcing or e-commerce trust? Will be seeing Dr Hapiza from UiTM tomorrow, my ex-school classmate...she may suggest some ideas for the FRGS. 

Need to finalise the knowledge gap article and Tegar case today before starting on new paper on Offshore Accounting Outsourcing in Malaysia.

Publish!

Time is now 1.42am. I am working.. hehe.. well this is the only time I can concentrate in my writing. I'm done with article in knowledge gap and will send to Journal of Knowledge Management soon.

First day of PTK 6 is not bad. Interesting to know that the only thing that matter in academic world is publish, publish and publish!! Wonder, how can she, one of the profs in UKM, publish 54 journal articles a year.. pergh!

Good Nite! Opps.. good morning! :D

PTK 6

Almost done with the knowledge gap paper. Only left with conclusion and references part. Hope to get it done by tonite. I'll be tied up with PTK6 next week and may not have time to write any paper. Sad.

Garage Sales

We will be moving to our new house soon! From an intermediate to a corner lot. From a 5 min drive to UKM to a place that will take at least 20-30 mins drive. From a very convenient, full of amenities - schools, clinics, shops, good restaurants to a quite, silent & salient place.I'm not sure whether buying that house and moving to such place is good. But for sure, I love the place. A place full of memories. A place that make me feel closer to my past - the memories of my dear dad n mom. A place where he always want me to be. I remembered, long ago, when I just started working, he asked me to buy a banglow lot at Saujana Impian. I resisted. I told him that I dont want to stay around there. He looked upset. The truth is I didnt have enough money to buy one! :(

Somehow, today, I managed to get myself a land for a bangalow but not in Saujana Impian, though. Just to overcome these guilty feelings, I bought that corner lot... *sigh*

So... I am going to sale some of my stuff before moving out by all means - a garage sale in front of my house, e-bay and this blog! Dont worry.. its going to be cheap! very cheap!

Apples & Oranges of my life..

Lets try upload some pictures..when they were still kids.. in wales, UK 2006

Fauzan, the eldest. He is now 16.

Girls - Fatin now is 15 and Aishah is 11.

ohh.. last one.. little boy.. Fareez, born in 2008 and now is  2 yrs old.

 

Guest.. how old were they at that time? hehe simple maths!

Knowledge Gap

Currently writing on Knowledge Gap between Onshore and Offshore Teams. Trying to relate with Connon-Bowers ideas on shared team model. Hard but possible. Hope to get it done by end of this week.. phewwww.

Btw, now I need to submit grades for AIS students, key in progress grades for my supervisees..later tonite, I have to start producing invoices again. Eheh!

Somehow, the smells of durians from Pontian is getting stronger. Feel like going to Pontian this weekend. Adoi la..

Cases got Published!

I woke up this morning with a good feeling. Finally a case on ATAREK will be published in Asian Case Research Journal as in June 2010 issues. It is an ISI journal. Who said you cannot get ISI publication from a case?


My other case on 'Depro Tech' will be published in Asian Journal Case Research, a SCOPUS journal by this month too.

My other two cases 'DELIMA' and 'PCI Sdn Bhd' which were written under MIA & MOHE programme had been published in Intergrated Case Studies Book last month.

More to come.. two more cases under final revision - TEGAR and SAP Petronas will be targeted for ISI journals.

Worth it, right?

Am I on leave?

I'm still on leave, yet still working. Crazy. I should just shut down this pc and sleep. How can I? My mind is still actively thinking about paper on 'Control and Relational Risks in Offshore Accounting Outsourcing'. I need to review and update the paper before resubmit to another journal. The paper was rejected from one of the first tier journal. Although I was very frustrated, it was still a bless. We got good comments from reviewers. I am not giving up. Will respond to the reviewers comments and send to another journal. We know that we have good issues and the paper should be published in the first tier journal. Good luck to me??

Fresh

A week holiday - done! Been to Cherating, Pulau Kapas, JB, Melaka. Now, I have fresh mind to start writing again. I've done my ISJ paper and sent to Brian for review. Next, I'm going to work on

1. Thesis to book
2. qualitative research methodology paper for IFIP
3. finalise Tegar case
4. IFIP 2008 paper for LRP

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I just bought a new honda accord car. An elegant and smart car. Love it so much. Now that I've add more liability and need to think more to get extra money. How to get more? My only alternative is my husband's catering business. But that is his business. I always dream of starting my own business but dont really have a good plan for that. Maybe a training or consultantcy work? Online shopping mall? When and how to start that? ergh..

Btw, I have to drive traffic to this site.. heee

ISJ

I dont think I can finish the paper for ISJ this week. Out of sudden, there are papers coming in for urgent revision and need to submit at the soonest so that it can be published by next month! Plus, the proposal of thesis written by my two master students need to be reviewed as well. At the soonest too. On thurs, friday and saturday, I will be attending the Train of trainers for MIA case study. Oh my, I have to present two cases, thus require more preparation time. In conclusion, I will never get the ISJ paper ready by end of this week.

Next week, I'll be going awayyyyyy.. holiday at Pulau Kapas. Err, how can I rest if the ISJ paper is far from its completion. *sigh*

Somehow, I'm still looking forward to the holiday.

Simple and Easy

I am now aware that most of the articles published in ISJ were written in a very simple way, using simple sentences and words. Easy readings. Small findings but significant for theory development. Can I write the way the writers wrote their ideas? Will try my best!

Today, I will be interviewing a key manager in OB10. This will be a second interview. Hopefully this meeting will be fruitful.

Suddenly, I feel like going to a place, away from home, away from work.. erm.. a holiday in an island? I'll make sure that the article for ISJ ready by next week and will reward myself with holiday at Pulau Kapas!

Heheeeeeee

oh ya! I found the book that Fatin is asking for.. and will buy it later today.

Australian Mathematics Competition Book 1, 1978-1984 (Enrichment Series, Volume 1)

Mathematics Competitions

Australian Mathematics Competition Book 3, 1992 - 1998

I love to see her smiles everytime she got what she asked for. I am a good mother, right? hehe

ISJ paper

I've finished with the SAP case. That is my first attempt to use drama in the case. Not bad. Haha. Wait till the others read and comments.

Next is to finish up my paper for ISJ. I've delayed that for almost two months now and must really need to get it finish and submit.

Fatin,my second daughter is quite obsessed with maths. She reminded me several times to buy her a book on math but I forgot the title. Got to ask her sometimes today.

Creative Writing

I need to be more creative in my writing especially when writing a teaching case. The more dramatic the case is , the better it will be. My only problem is that I forgot how to write creatively. I remembered that I always got an A for my essay in secondary school. Teachers love my essay, my story.. they like my wordings and the dream that I put in my writing. I need to be what I was when I was at school. Easy to say but hard to do. Ermm I'm not giving up.

I am searching for a book on creative writing or a book with scripts.. hehe will the books below help?

A new car

I desperately want a new car. I'm now driving mercedes avantgarde E230. I envy Volvo sport, but my husband doesnt like it. I want Honda CRV. He doesnt like that type of car either. So, I left with Honda Accord and Toyota Camry as last choices. Erm, why should I bother? After all both of them are not the type of car that I love to drive. My husband likes those car. Not me. Why cant I have the car that I want! Waaa I'm stuck with this crazy decision again.

Amazon and me

I finally decided to associate this blog with Amazon. As a first step, I'll review my first book that is advertised in Amazon.

Offshore Accounting Outsourcing: The Case of India

The book is written based on our research in Offshore Accounting Outsourcing in 2005/2006. At that time I was still in Manchester UK. The research was sponsored my ICAEW, a professional accounting body in UK. It was a great research where I encountered issues and challenges in meeting different people at different places such as Lisbon, Portugal; London, UK; Bangalore and Puney in India. The book is good for those planning to send their outsourcing work to India.

Fareez 2nd Birthday

Today is Fareez second birthday. He just recovered from a fever. We didnt arrange for any birthday party but went out for lunch at Kenny Rogers. Our favourite place celebrating birthday. Fareez loves the foods there and was so noisy.. hehe. I tried to order Baskin Robin birthday ice cream cake but its going to take at least 3 days.. haha too long to wait. Nobody want to wait that long! So finally, we just had our ice cream. Guess what is our favorite flavor? Chocolate Mint! Nyummy.. Fareez had his own cup of ice cream and for the very first time, he didnt want to share! Huuu I have to order another one for myself!

Now, he is sleeping next to me.. looks so tired and restless. Nite Fareez and happy birthday love...muaah! We will always love you!

Reunion

I can say that I have overcome the worries of meeting the old friends - schoolmates, collegemates etc.. Its not just me who grow in size, they are too. Just enjoy the meetings and share updates. Tonite is the 2nd reunioun that I attended this year. Hehe..

It is a reward for finishing and submitting my Jurnal Pengurusan article and the e-government article to London conference. Heh.. finally I have decided where to go. It is important to present the paper in a well known conference and attended by well known professors in order to get good input.

So, now I am trying to refresh my mind before start doing the SAP case study for MIA and an article on sense-reading for Information System Journal.

Nite!

Public Library

I sent my kids to public library after school today. Let them have different environment for studying or revising. Fatin took it very easy but Fauzan seems not happy. I remembered when I was at School last 30 years. Most of my time was spent in public library. Almost every weekend. Library was the best place for me to study because I didnt have the condusive study environment at home. Noisy and crowded. A family of eleven stayed in a house with two bedroom. I am sure you can imagine the situation, right?

I just finished preparing invoices for my husband's business. What a relief. Next, continued with the JP and eG articles. Yeh!

First step

In addition to my normal workload, I have to prepare invoices for my husband's catering business. At least, I've to spend 36 hours a month for the invoices. Thats what I did last night. Stayed up until 2am. But I could only finish a bunch of them. Need to continue producing invoices tonite. Well, I accept that as a challenge, keep my mind away from all the papers and books for a day or two. Hee..

I'm almost settle with the article for Jurnal Pengurusan and looking forward to start another new papers on:
1. interpretive case study research (for IFIP in Finland)
2. offshore accounting outsourcing in Malaysia (for any international conference)

and new books on:
1. pembangunan sistem dan aplikasi sistem maklumat perakaunan ( a book on system development written in Malay)
2. sistem maklumat perakaunan dan kawalan (again, another book on system and control to be written in Malay)
3. Writing a Teaching Case

err.. am I too ambitious? Well, I believe in first step. Without the first step, I' cannot reach the end... I mean a complete paper. Hehe..

Employable graduates?

Good input from the interview with members of Outsourcing Malaysia this morning. Lots of issues being raised up. One important issue is employability of our graduates. Although there are thousands of graduates every year, they are not employable! I am not surprised. The most talented graduates will not apply for a job in outsourcing but rather go to a better job prospect. Well, pls do not blame the universities for not producing quality graduates. We done our part by providing basic knowledge and skills which should be polished by the industry who need them! They are half baked and to make sure they can be eaten up, the industry should provide further training so that they can fit well in the particular firms!

Sorry if I am a bit serious here but I'm tired.. tired of driving, tired of finalising the grades and tired of thinking list of works need to finish up by end of this week:

1. repair the paper for Jurnal Pengurusan
2. send out egovernment paper
3. repair Petronas SAP case
4. repair Tegar case
5. finalising book on communnicating knowledge across border

phewwwwwwwwwww..

PIKOM & Outsourcing Malaysia

Finally I'm done with the marking and grading. Students had done fairly well in their exam. Not so good but ok with the effort they putting in.

I am going to meet someone from PIKOM and Outsourcing Malaysia at their office in Damansara tomorrow. Somehow, its not just me who benefit from the meeting but their side too. In research/ field work negotiation, there should be some win win situation. I'll get the research part and they will get the practical part.

Nite!

Choices and Decision

Life is full of choices and we have to make the right decision at the right time.

1. This morning, I had to make a big decision. A decision to buy a right printer. Hehe..its not easy to decide, you know. It took me hours of talking to the sales representative at different shop counters. Finally, I bought HP laser printer. Just because of its easy installations and may be because of its brand!

2. Another decision that I have to make is where to send my egovernment paper. I want to send my egovernment paper to a conference but I have to choose either London or Vietnam. Two great conferences in November. The last criteria to be taken into consideration is place. I've never been to Vietnam, and I would like to go there. I've been to London many times before, and love to go there again for shoppings etc. Which one should I choose? Waaa .. its so difficult to make a right decision, kan? A place that I've never been or a place where I want to be?

New Blackberry

I received a new Blackberry Curve with Celcom phone line. The phone and line are free. Thank you UKM. I can now make calls to students/companies or any related parties without worrying about phone bills. Heh! Enjoy!

Stress

Take a deep breath and start planning. Nothing can be done when you are panic. Suddenly, I feel so stress. Stress that I create myself. Due dates that I set myself. Those can be adjusted. I have to tell myself silently not to stress. Just take your own sweet time and settle the work one by one. Even if you stretch over the due date, let it be. The chances may come again. Hopefully. #sigh...

Students Project

I started my day today with marking students project paper. What a headache! I knew very well that the students were doing the project last minute. Despite several drafts being commented face-to-face, some of them just dont know how to do it right. Either they just ignore my comment or they dont have anymore time to improve the report.

The project paper is on evaluating e-commerce securities of selected companies website. I have given steps on how to do the analysis and reporting. A very detail instructions plus lengthy discussion in lecture. But, what did I get at the end? A useless report!

Marking

I had an interview session with Accenture this morning. Not bad. The contact person is very friendly and informative. No wonder they stay as one of the biggest accounting outsourcing provider so far. He talked too much that I dont have chances to ask. Heee.. one of the challenges that he highlighted is the expertises that are difficult to get. Expertise here means graduates with accounting skills and good communication ability, written and oral.

I am so excited to write about the offshore accounting outsourcing in Malaysia - but have to be patient until my assistant finish transcribing the interviews.

I'm done with the e-government paper early this morning, sent to Dr Hasmiah for peer review and now waiting for her reply.

Next is marking time.. the most boring part of my job. :D

Here and There

I am trying to get this e-government paper done by today or no later than tuesday next week. I cannot hold this paper any longer. It makes me crazy.. hehe no lah! There is a pile of exam paper need to be marked before the 10th of this month. I have to start looking at it soonest possible.

Oh ya, my paper on Risiko hubungan dan Kepercayaan dalam Penyumberan-luar is on its way to be published in Jurnal Pengurusan. I need to respond to minor revision and get it done within 21 days.. phewwwww..

Another thing that I'm looking forward is an interview with Accenture tomorrow. I've been waiting too long for tomorrow meeting and I hope its worth waiting for. :D

A note to remember: Berusahalah selagi ada daya...

Case Study Collaboration

As I mentioned before, I am quite obsessed with writing case study now. Today will be a meeting with MPC to discuss further collaboration in writing case study. They have the resources, contacts etc.. and we at UKM have the writing skills. Why not collaborate, right?

Full of hope

We have finished review the book draft and will send to the publisher again for final printing. Hopefully, will get it publish next month.

I'm going to finish the outsourcing turnback paper tonite so that I can focus on case study book. The book will be a compilation of teaching cases for accounting integrated case study course. So far, the case authors have given full commitment and hopefully they are motivated to get it finish and publish it out at the soonest. Another book in the next two month!

Life is full of hope and to get things done, I have to deal with people. So far so good!

Too much

I'm still working on the e-government paper, repairing the accounting outsourcing turnback paper for journal submission and finalising two cases for Integrated Case Study. Ops.. also a book on accounting outsourcing to be reviewed for typesetting approval. Phewwwwwwwww...

Forgetful

I lost my car key. Misplaced maybe. I forgot where I put the key and couldnt find it till today. I feel really old now. Forgetful and dizzy.

Paper on E-government

My target this week is to finish up my writing on e-government evaluation in Malaysia public sector with a focus on e-procurement system. I've been working on this paper since last year under GUP research budget. On and off. It has been too long now and I am not going to delay it anymore. I have to get it done by this week, send to conference and present it at the soonest. This is the most difficult paper I've encountered so far. Maybe because the Theoretical Framework (TF) that I draw on for conceptualising the ideas is not strong. The only way to make it work is to have new TF. Hmm.. the problem is .. do I really want to start all over again? New TF means rewrite the paper!

MIA Intergrated Case Study Workshop

I am quite obsessed with writing cases for teaching now. I am committing myself to the second round MIA-ICS case writing session. The first round produced nine case studies of which two of them were written by me. The cases were published in MIA case book and will be launched in June 2010. Hopefully, the second round will bring another ten cases and publishable as well. According to Pn Wan Norehan, the publication will be in August 2010.

So, I am drafting my case on SAP implementation to be presented in MIA-ICS workshop on 23-25 April in Port Dickson. See you there!

Anger

I was talking to a friend just now about her uncontrollable anger. Pity her, she feels that she is too good that she can be angry at anyone without thinking about the other person's feeling. I feel bad, doesnt she?

what if while scolding someone, she got heart attack?

Working Hard

Its kind of difficult when you are sitting in front of overloaded table. A table full with unfinished paperworks that need to be due by end of the month, plus tons of students project paper that need to be marked. Plus, lists of companies that need to be contacted for case studies... plus etc etc.

Sometimes, I just wonder, how people reach the top easily. What are they? Bionic Women or Super WOMEN? or its just their luck? Well, I dont believe in luck! You have to work hard not only for living but for living comfortably.

I am working hard now. The hardest it can be.

Chow!

Opps before that, magic sentences for today:


Relationship is IMPORTANT in business! A business can only survive with relationship and networking. Stare at a person eyes when you talk to them and try build a good relationship from there!

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I always want to have my own space to jot down my own feelings and grumbles about everything I see, think and do.

One statement from a radio that struck me this morning is this:

To be successful, you have to spend 1/3 of your time thinking strategically, 1/3 of your time doing or implementing and the other 1/3 of your time developing people around you.

So, strategically, why not start thinking now, do it soonest possible and pass your knowledge to others!

tq