Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2005

Student Achievements First and Second Prizes E-Challenge Business Plan Competition Two teams of Chinese University students from different countries and disciplines won the first and second prizes in the E-Challenge Business Plan Competition with their innovative electronic designs. Over 180 teams of some 800 students f r om the eight local tertiary institutions took part in the E-Challenge 2005 Business Plan Competition o r g a n i z ed b y t h e Y o u n g E n t r e p r e n e u r s Development Council. The champion was a team from The Chinese University which consisted of MBA students Carol Fan, Tony Liu, and A r i o n Maniatis, as we l l as Ph.D. candidates in electronic engineering, Carmen Poon and Johnson Yan. The team developed an easy-to-use, portable and patented blood pressure device wh i c h allows blood pressure data to be transferred via blue tooth technology, enabling doctors to mo n i t or the conditions of remote patients. The first runner-up was another team from C U H K wh i ch comprised MBA students Albert Climent, Angela Li, Selina Wu, and Ph.D. candidate in automation and computer-aided engineerin g Shi Guang Yi. Their product can electronically capture handwritten informatio n on an ordinary whiteboard and transmit it to any computing platform using blue tooth, thereby allowing users to store meeting and teaching notes in real-time. Accountancy Graduates Bag Top Three Awards of CPA Examination Three graduates of the School of Accountancy made a sweep of the gold , silver and bronze a w a r d s of t h i s y e a r ' s CPA Q u a l i f i c a t i on P r o g r amme of the H o n g K o ng I n s t i t u te of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA). Another CUHK graduate w o n the gold award in another session of the exam in 2004. The t op three c a n d i d a t es o f the F i n a l Professional Examinatio n (FPE) for the June 2005 session are Teresa Lee Chui-shan, (gold), Elsa Tang Yan (silver), and L i Miu-yee (bronze), all CUH K graduates of 2004, while the gold award in FPE for the December 2004 session went to Edith Wong Hoi-ting, a 2003 C U H K accountancy graduate. The four now wo rk in PricewaterhouseCoopers Hong Kong. From left:Edith Wong, Elsa Tang, Teresa Lee and Li Miu Yee CUHK Team Wins CPA Qualification Programme Case Analysis Competition 2005 A team of accounting students from The Chinese Un i v e r s i t y beat seven other teams f r om f our u n i v e r s i t i e s at the H o n g K o n g I n s t i t u te of C e r t i f i e d P u b l i c A c c o u n t s ' Q u a l i f i c a t i on Programme Case Analysis Competition on 26th November 2005. The team members were Chan Chong Hei (right 1), Fung Shuk Fun (left 1), Hs u L i Fei (left 2), and Mok Sze Wai (right 2). N o w i n its f o u r th year, the CPA QP Case A n a l y s i s C o m p e t i t i on aims at d e v e l o p i n g business skills and professiona l j u d gme nt of undergraduates, preparing the m for the CPA QP. Out of the 118 entries from eight universities, teams from CUHK , HK PolyU, Shue Yan College, HKUST, and H K U had been shortlisted to enter the finals. News in Brief 6 1