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Professional Development
The workshops are optional and do not count for course credit. They are strictly available to AFM students at no additional cost.
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Attend our sixth annual Professional Futures Conference (PFC) in September 2011. Professionalism is the name of GAME!! There are prizes. 2A AFM students should check this out. Look on UW-ACE for more information.
- Audrey Wilson of Gemini Models presented images and fashions that would suit any office, highlighting businesswear with clothes from Conestoga Mall. Find out what should be essential in your wardrobe to make the best first impression for your co-op work terms - download Audrey's list of essential items for men and women.
- ICAO Board of Associates - Each year the ICAO forms a Board of Associates (BoA) with 2 student representatives from each university in Ontario. Howard Leung (1B, AFM-PA) and Arthur (Yari) Wang (1B, AFM-PA) are the new ICAO Board of Associates representatives. For 2008/2009 the ICAO selected Ian Gutwinski (3A, AFM-PA) and Nilofer Ahmed (3A, AFM-PA) to represent the University of Waterloo, who both went on to be named Reps of the Year.
In March, all first-year students were invited to meet representatives from the professional associations (CA, CMA, CGA, CFA and IIA) and staff from potential co-op employer firms at Financial Management (FM) and Public Accounting (PA) Night. The two networking events brought together employers, industry associations and students from specialty Accounting and Finance programs at uWaterloo. AFM Public Accounting students joined their CA-bound peers in Math and Science Programs at PA Night, which featured staff from the “National 6” accounting organizations. AFM Financial Management students joined their peers in the Computing and Financial Management Program at FM Night, which featured staff from financial services firms, corporate finance departments within large public corporations, and operations teams within government departments and agencies. Over 80% of registered and eligible students attended these events. Read more about how the SAF delivers professional futures here. |
Typically held at both a conference centre and on campus, settings allow for lecture-formatted workshops and a variety of practical active-learning activities. Students’ hard work is rewarded with desirable, relevant prizes. The timing of the PFC makes it ideal for offering students a chance to polish their professional image and practice routines that will prepare them for the co-op experience and for a lifetime in the workforce. The event kicks off an important term for students, most of whom will be undergoing the co-op job search process for the first time within weeks of the Conference. During the subsequent winter term, students will be engaged on their first of four co-op work assignments. Graduating students often cite the PFC as a memorable experience and the one that most signified the beginning of the integrated component of their undergraduate degree program. Check out details about the upcoming 2011 Robert Half Professional Futures Conference. Read more about Robert Half.
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The Robert Half Professional Futures Conference (PFC) is designed for students entering into their second year of undergraduate study in the School’s Bachelor of Accounting and Financial Management (BAFM), Bachelor of Computing and Financial Management (BCFM), Bachelor of Science (BSc) - Chartered Accountancy and Bachelor of Mathematics (BMath) - Chartered Accountancy program. PFC is kicked off with a pre-conference or launch event between January and March and culminates with a multi-day conference event in September. Through the Conference, we strive to instil within our students a sense of having entered into a professionally focused integrated learning program with outstanding colleagues. The aim of the Conference is to make students “co-op employer-ready”. Through an agenda of activities and events PFC delivers an integrative, industry-focused professional development experience that will lead to effective co-op employment seeking strategies for our students and contribute to their success on the job. Ultimately, these students may be candidates for clients of
Every year, students in their 4B term in the Accounting and Financial Management, Math/CA, and Biotech/CA programs compete in the BDO WATCase Competition - an integrative competition that challenges the students to apply and integrate the skills they've learned to a case based on a real-life company. The competition helps to hone the students' practical accounting and finance knowledge, report-writing abilities and presentation proficiences. WATCase 2011: Best Transfer Trucking Company September 2011 - A group of students from the School of Accounting and Finance placed Best Transfer, a privately owned trucking company from Guelph, under a financial microscope. Upper-year students in Accounting and Financial Management (AFM), Math/CA, and Biotech/CA recently delved into the company’s financial background as part of a case study for SAF's annual BDO WATCase Competition. This year, the 11-day challenge required students to portray a client services team member in order to prepare an interim deliverable and briefing memo on issues surrounding the status of a new truck order and the implementation of a new dispatch system...read more about the 2011 BDO WATCase Competition. Previous Years: |
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Following the tradition of the Investment Poster competition started two years ago by Professor Alan Huang,
an Equity Research Challenge is being organized by Professor Craig Geoffrey for his Investments
(AFM 472) class. The competition will be held in two rounds on Friday, March 30 from 2:30 pm to 6:00 pm. Please join us for the final round presentations and the reception. The following industry panelists are contributing their time to judge the student presentations in both rounds: Gisella Agusta - Director of Human Resources at ITG Patrizia Ferrarese – Senior Consultant, Business Strategy and Market Research Services at PF Group Inc. Michelle Heaphy - Director, Corporate Banking at Scotia Capital Stephen Jonathan - FX Application Specialist at Bloomberg Gordon Kim - Director of Research at Arrow Capital Management Dan Lavric - Portfolio Manager, Credit at Equitable Life Insurance Dax Philbert - Founder and Managing Director at iComply Consulting Ren Plastina - Managing Director, North American Energy & Infrastructure Group at BNP Paribas (NY)
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