A UIC business student team achieved third place in the 2018-2019 CFA Institute Research Challenge South China Local Final that was held in Shenzhen on 24 February.The CFA Institute Research Challenge is an annual global competition that provides university students with hands-on mentoring and intensive training in financial analysis.(From Left) Advisor Dr Minyu Wu, Wenke Yu, Heyang Fang, Yez...

The Chairman of Deloitte China, Mr Philip Tsai, was the honoured speaker at the High Table Dinner at UIC on 9 November. He spoke to an audience mostly consisting of Division of Business and Management (DBM) students about the innovation of business in China, as well as the challenges that come with it.Mr Tsai explains some of the business challenges that students may encounterMr Tsai began by...

The Division of Business and Management (DBM) invited the Director of Government and Regulator Relations at the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute, Mr Thomas Ma, to participate as part of their guest talk series on 6 November.Dean of DBM Prof Stella Cho welcoming Mr Thomas MaMr Thomas Ma gives the students an overview of the CFA Institute and the CFA programmeHis talk to the UIC stud...

The Division of Business and Management held a lecture on 30 October 2018, featuring the Managing Partner at RSM Hong Kong, Mr Eugene Liu as the guest speaker.Managing Partner at RSM Hong Kong, Mr Liu, talking about business developmentMr Liu is an active speaker on business development and IPO related areas, with 20 years of management experience. Before joining RSM Hong Kong, he was qualifi...

With the approval of Ministry of Education of the PRC, the Division of Business and Management (DBM) is launching a new Master of Professional Accountancy Programme (MPAcc) in the coming academic year 2019/2020. With the establishment of the Graduate School in 2017, United International College (UIC), launched a taught master’s programme titled Master of Professional Accountancy (MPAcc). Th...

“When you are at a lecture or at dinner with friends or family, do you put away your phone?” On 9 October 2018, Mr Sik-Cheong Chow presented a lecture at UIC on how people can possibly become addicted to their phones.Dean of the Division of Business and Management Prof Stella Cho welcoming Mr ChowMr Chow has 42 years of teaching and administrative experience in education, with exposure to v...

The inauguration of DBM’s first taught master’s programme: Master of Professional Accountancy was launched on 26 September. The first cohort of 17 DBM MPAcc students were officially welcomed to their new campus.Group photo of students and faculty members for the MPAcc ProgrammePresident of UIC Prof Ng Ching-Fai gave an officiating speech. “The College and I fully support DBM’s strategic g...

KPMG, one of the Big Four accounting firms, gave a career talk to UIC DBM students on campus on 21 September 2018. It attracted over 100 student participants.Dean of DBM Prof Stella Cho gave opening remarks and warm welcome to guests from KPMG China.Dean of DBM Prof Stella Cho presented souvenirs to Ms Maria LeeThe speaker, Ms Maria Lee, senior partner of KPMG, shared her career path and succ...