Mr. Joel Neoh, Founder of Youthsay.com and Youth Asia

Dear friends,

We are very lucky that we get to invite another outstanding speaker for our interesting topic, Motivation towards Entrepreneurship. Besides Mr. Jason Lo, the CEO of Tune Talk, Mr. Joel Neoh will be joining us in this fabulous topic.

Watch out,friends!  

JOEL NEOH

Executive Director, Youth Asia

Joel is the co-founder and executive director of Youth Asia, a group of companies focused on helping organizations tap into the collective power of youths.

Youth Asia owns YouthSays.com, an online community of 300,000+ youth members across Southeast Asia (250,000 members in Malaysia) who participate in research for businesses and NGOs. This includes producing public studies for The Star, New Straits Times and Malay Mail, as well as over 450 private studies for various organizations. This community of youths also use their Facebook, Twitter, instant messaging, and blogs to assist NGOs and Malaysia’s largest advertisers, like TM, Nestle, DiGi, Nokia, Nike, Microsoft, MAS, and Celcom, with their youth communication needs.

Youth Asia is also involved with large-scale youth development initiatives. They organize Malaysia’s largest youth festival every year. Their most recent youth festival, YOUTH’10, engaged over 228 schools, 55 campuses, and 88,366 youths to co-organize and experience over 180 activities across 3 days at PWTC. YOUTH’10 won No.1 in Promotional Activity of the year + No.2 in Campaign of the Year at the Malaysia PR Awards 2010. Youth Asia has also assisted in ASEAN initiatives like the SEACHANGE Youth Report. In 6 weeks, Youth Asia compiled 102,502 stories for a research report for world leaders by working with 200 partner campuses, online web communities, and student organizations across ASEAN.

Youth Asia also recently launched GroupsMore (www.groupsmore.com), a movement of people that believes life should be exciting. By tapping into the collective power of numbers, GroupsMore benefits thousands of its members by offering the best discounts to try something new every week and promises featured businesses hundreds of new customers in return.

Joel and his team believe that when we collaborate and engage the collective power of youths, we can achieve anything. He now focuses his efforts on leading Youth Asia to channel the power of youths both locally and regionally.

p/s: Joel also won Malaysia’s first corporate reality TV show, The Firm being the youngest contestant at age 23.

Did you know: Youth Asia was previously known as Youth Malaysia (which won the Youth Friendly Company of the Year in 2007).

Well, so if you want to listen to him talking about Motivation towards entrepreneurship, do come to MASC 2010 and listen to him carefully. It's truly once in a lifetime opportunity! Come grab it!

Speakers Video

Let's hear a couple of words by our Speakers and VIPs~! 


Speakers Video 1:    Mr Jason Lo - CEO of TuneTalk
                                 Mr John Zinkin - CEO of SIDC 
                                 Mr Siew Chin Kiang - Executive Director of KPMG
                                 Ms Lee Soo Fern - HR Director of Ernst & Young




Speakers Video 2:    Ms Loh Wei Yuen - Regional Director of ICAEW                                 Ms Theresa Goh - Executive Director of Deloitte                                 Dato Gan Ah Tee - Managing Partner of BDO                                 Mr Wayne Lim - CEO of Malaysia SME
 We hope you enjoy the videos! Do not hesitate anymore, join us and you will benefited !!

Ms Theresa Goh & Transfer Pricing

Transfer pricing is the pricing of assets within an organisation. The term usually refers to prices on cross-border transactions within multi-national entities eg. from a foreign parent company to a subsidiary. Since the prices are controlled within an organisation, a price that appears to reflect market pricing to your company may not be when considered 'at arm's length'.

In recent years, transfer pricing has emerged as a critical success factor in corporate strategic planning and executive decision-making. More and more companies focused on growth and market leadership are recognising the important role transfer pricing can play in:

• Minimising the corporate tax burden
• Enhancing operational performance 
• Reducing legal exposure 
• Increasing cash flow 

It is an international tax issue of significant interest and impact, and now is the time to get on top of its meaning and implications. Every year, more countries are challenging companies on their transfer pricing activities and imposing onerous penalties on those in noncompliance.

In Malaysia, legislation on transfer pricing was proposed in the 2009 Finance Budget and was gazetted on 8 January 2009. Based on the said legislation, effective 1 January 2009, companies with related party transactions are required to determine and apply the arm’s length price for the acquisition or supply of property or services. Therefore, it is mandatory for all companies to prepare transfer pricing documentation for the purpose of determining the arm’s length price.                                                                      (sources from: Deloitte Malaysia)

With great pleasure, we have Ms Theresa Goh, the National Transfer Pricing Leader of Deloitte Malaysia’s Transfer Pricing Team to be one of our speakers on the topic ''GST, RPGT & Transfer Pricing''. 

The committee members of MASC 2010 and Ms Theresa Goh

Ms Theresa was recognised as a leading transfer pricing adviser in Euromoney's 2009 Guide to the World's Leading Transfer Pricing Advisers. Her experience covers tax audits and investigations and tax planning and advisory for clients in a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, services and oil & gas sectors. Theresa has more than 20 years of tax and transfer pricing (TP) experience covering a wide range of taxation. She has extensive experience in successfully completing many tax planning and consulting assignments in areas such as restructuring, mergers and acquisition.

Eager to know more about Transfer Pricing and hear more from Ms Theresa? 

MASC 2010 provides you this golden opportunity and we guarantee that you will never regret to become part of us! 

Mr Wayne Lim, Chairman of Malaysia SME

Friends, remember Mr. Siew Chin Kiang being one of our speaker for the topic, Comparison between Local and Foreign Undergraduates? 

The Public Relation team mate of MASC 2010 had succeeded to invite another great speaker to discuss about this topic.

For further study into this interesting topic, Mr Wayne Lim is here, in MASC 2010 to share with us his thoughts and opinions. ^^

Very proudly, let us tell you something about Mr. Wayne Lim...

 
Wayne Lim, Chief Executive Officer of the MALAYSIA SME™ newspaper has been actively involved within the SME community for the past 10 years. He started the SMI Business Directory with SMI Association of Malaysia in 2001 while he was attached to a Singapore PLC and has been deeply involved in the business of SMEs ever since.

Wayne founded the MSME media group in 2005, and subsequently conceptualised the MALAYSIA SME™ media brand. In less than three years, he has propelled the group from being the publisher of a single directory to becoming the largest SME media corporation in Malaysia. The group currently publishes the nation’s first and only SME newspaper with a fortnightly audited circulation of 50,000 copies.

In addition to the first SME newspaper and Business Directory, Wayne was also the first to launch many media products and services specifically for SMEs. The MSME media group currently publishes the MALAYSIA SME™ CD-ROM, and MALAYSIA SME™ Online, as well as manages the MALAYSIA SME™ Business Networking and Seminars, MALAYSIA SME™ Congress, MALAYSIA SME™ On Air, MALAYSIA SME™ Mobile and MALAYSIA SME™ Membership.

In the course of his business endeavours, Wayne always stays closely connected to the SME community. He is very knowledgeable about the SME industry and has a great understanding of their trends and challenges. He expresses his opinion and shares his knowledge on the SME industry regularly through his column ‘SMEminism™’ where he champions for SMEs to be recognised and assisted on a level playing field with large corporations.

Apart from being well versed with the ins and outs of the SME community, he is passionate about sports and deeply loves the game of football. He is an avid football fan and a FAM certified football coach.

So, friends, what are you waiting for? 

Quickly register for MASC 2010 as it is only limited to 300 participants!

It's a once in a life time opportunity for you to listen to Mr. Wayne Lim discussing about this topic lively. 

It's an interesting topic by a great speaker like Mr. Wayne Lim.

Friends, treasure this opportunity well! ^^

See ya in MASC 2010!

Mr. Siew Chin Kiang, staff partner of KPMG, Malaysia

So, do you ever wonder what are the differences between local undergraduates and foreign undergraduates? 

Why do people always compare local undergraduates and foreign undergraduates?

Therefore, this will be one of our topic to be discussed about in MASC 2010!

           Comparison between Local and Foreign Undergraduates

To clear your doubt bout it, join MASC 2010.

We are also very lucky to get to invite Mr. Siew Chin Kiang as one of the speaker for this interesting topic.

If you want to listen to his opinion about this topic, what more? do not hesitate and fill up the online application and be a part of MASC 2010! 

Let us give some brief information about Mr. Siew Chin Kiang:

Mr.Siew is currently the Executive Director and Joint Partner in Charge of the Financial Advisory Services in KPMG where he oversees the Corporate Finance and Transaction Service practice.  

 He is also the Staff Partner overseeing all human capital, talent management and staff matters in the Firm.

Mr. Siew started his career with KPMG in 1986. He was in the audit division for 22 years of which 2 years was in the United States under the KPMG International Transfer Program. His experience in audit includes leading the audit of numerous public listed companies, public interest enterprises and a wide range of companies in different industries.

He has also been involved as a Reporting Accountant in the initial public offering of various companies.

Mr. Siew is a Fellow Member of ACCA, a member of MIA and MICPA. He actively contributes to the profession and is currently a member of the ACCA Malaysia Advisory Committee. He was previously on the sub-committee of MIA looking at the introduction of the Anti Money Laundering Act for the profession and was a member of the examination committee of MICPA.

If you want to listen to his opinion on this topic, 

join MASC 2010!

Why hesitate? ^^

Mr. Michael Teoh, Co-Founder of Youth Entrepreneurs Malaysia (YEM)

It's our great pleasure again to get to invite another great speaker to MASC 2010. 

Mr. Micheal Teoh will be our speaker for the topic The Role of Youth in Malaysia's Economy.

Let us brief you something about Mr. Michael Teoh:

 

Michael Teoh is a Youth Advocate in Malaysia, consulting government agencies, companies and NGOs on engaging and developing the youth segment. He is currently the Head for Outreach Program at myHarapan, a youth foundation established to support, facilitate and grow youths and their initiatives to create positive impact to the community.

He was the Co-Founder of Youth Entrepreneurs Malaysia (YEM), a social start-up enterprise involved in the business of building communities and becoming a Youth-centric media platform for entrepreneurship. To date, he has connected with more than 10,000 youths across 100 community and entrepreneurship projects in universities and colleges, since last year while pursuing YEM.

He is a multiple time global business competition champion during his university days overseas, where he represented New Zealand to competitions and conferences in New York, Singapore, Hong Kong and more. He was also an active student leader in global youth organizations like SIFE, AIESEC, the Microsoft Imagine Cup and Student Council.  He has also consulted companies like Citigroup and Ocean Park, both in Hong Kong, Start-Ups and Incubators in New Zealand and micro-businesses in tourism and youth development in Malaysia. 

After his graduation in 2008, he was invited to speak at the Harvard Business Conference and was also one of the seven of Malaysia’s Most Outstanding Youth awarded by the Asian Youth Ambassadors.

In 2009, Michael was nominated to the Asia-Pacific Future Young Social Entrepreneurs Top 100 List and the Asia Leaders21 Group, both representing Malaysia. Recently he was even offered to pursue a project with leading MBA School – INSEAD on Social Entrepreneurship. At the same year, he too was recognized as the Youth Catalyst for the Global Entrepreneurship Week project, a project spread across 102 countries around the world.

On the media front, Michael has won the Tune Talk Chief Talker Awards for ‘Youth Empowerment’, the Honda – Our Challenging Spirit Awards for ‘Passion in Entrepreneurship’ and the Live & Inspire – Youth Rocks Awards for Malaysian Role-Model, notable for his influence and crowd-sourcing abilities on the web communities.

Sharing knowledge and showcasing local youth talents have always been his passion, hence his feature as a regular speaker on youth development and entrepreneurship at universities and colleges across the region.  To date he has spoken in more than 100 occasions in universities like UiTM, UM, UUM, USM, Unirazak, UTAR, Lim Kok Wing University and more. On the business side, he was a speaker in MSC Innotech-Penang, the GoMobile Conference, the SIFE National Business Competition and many more.

In 2010, Michael excelled on a different notch as he was voted by Malaysian youths to represent the Voices of Young Malaysians to One Young World, a global youth summit held in London, where he addressed 1,000 youths across 192 countries and millions watching from BBC World News and YouTube on how ‘Youths are Mobilizing Change through Social Media’, a speech which landed him interviews with CNN News, BBC World News and Reuters. Interestingly as well, Michael had managed to unite 36,000 Malaysian youths’ ideas into a book within one week, as a ‘Gift’ from Malaysia to the 192 countries’ leader during the summit. 

Michael had just returned from a program sponsored by leading MBA School – INSEAD in Singapore, where he pursued a short course program in Entrepreneurship Development and was invited to Stanford University to deliver his speech on the Malaysian Entrepreneurial Landscape in the USA.

Incredibly, Mr Michael Teoh will be with us in MASC 2010! 

will you be with us?

It's a very good opportunity for you to listen to talk from him personally.

Grab this chance well and

SEE YOU IN MASC 2010! ^^

Dato Johan Raslan, Chairman of PwC & President of MICPA

     We are very glad and it is our great pleasure to finally get to invite Dato Johan Raslan to be the speaker of our topic, The Role of Youth in Malaysia's Economy.

Bhg Dato’ Johan Raslan is the Executive Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers Malaysia. He has over 25 years of experience in audit and business advisory both in Malaysia and the United Kingdom.

Dato’ Johan holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree in Economics and Accountancy from University of Hull, United Kingdom. He was admitted as a member of the MICPA in 2002 and became a Council Member of the Institute in 2003. He was appointed as the Vice President of MICPA in 2009 and he is currently the President of this world-class accounting body. 

Here is the link if you want to know more bout Dato Johan Raslan. 

Join MASC 2010 to experience a talk from Dato Johan Raslan and it is the golden opportunity in your life!

GST and Dr Veerinderjeet Singh

 What is GST?

Goods and services tax ( GST ) is a consumption tax charged on a wide range of domestic & international products, goods and services. It’s a broad-based tax imposed on every level of a product, from raw materials all the way to finished goods. It affects all layers of business and consumers – And whether you realize it or not, you’re being taxed for almost every thing.

How will the tax be charged?

GST will be charged at 4% of the value added to goods/services at each stage of production/ distribution. This rate, indicated by the Finance Minister, is known as the standard rate.

 

 Who can charge GST? 

A business with sales in one year amounting to RM500,000, as indicated by the Finance Minister, must register to charge GST. A business with sales amounting to less than this threshold may volunteer to register to charge GST and claim input tax credit.

 

What's your view and opinion on GST ??? 

 

MASC 2010 will share with you how to overcome it!!! Dr Veerinderjeet Singh, the Managing Director of Taxand Malaysia Sdn. Bhd agreed to attend our event and discuss with us about GST!! Don't miss it out!!!

   Dr Veerinderjeet Singh -  the Managing Director of TAXAND MALAYSIA Sdn. Bhd. 

He has extensive experience in tax matters having been a Tax Partner in international accounting firms and having worked with the Malaysian Inland Revenue Department. He is a member of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA), the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA), the Chartered Tax Institute of Malaysia (CTIM) as well as CPA Australia. He served as President of CTIM for 3 years till 12 June 2010. He is also the Chairman of the International Fiscal Association – Malaysia Branch. He was also a member of the Labuan IOFC Tax Consultative Committee set up by the Labuan Offshore Financial Services Authority. He has served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Malaya and currently is Visiting Fellow at the Taylors Business School.. He has over 100 publications including books as well as articles in local and international tax, law and accounting journals and in local newspapers. He has advised on a wide range of tax matters affecting cross-border investments, corporate restructuring, financial institutions, multi-national entities, listed entities and government and quasi government entities and projects. (info source - http://www.taxand.com.my/mngt_team.html )

Come and Join Us to Get Yourself Involve In This Interesting Discussion !!!