Finance Essential for Entrepreneurs
About the Event
Building a startup can be very exciting, but making sure your startup is on the right foot, one must take the time to build necessary finance infrastructure. The financial aspect can seem like a daunting task that you know are important, but just never have time for. This sharing session of Finance Essential for Entrepreneurs will prepare you on important financial aspects before you decide on launching a startup.
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Key Learnings
To identify what are the important financial aspects in a startup
What are the basic objectives of accounting
How does a company scale its accounting
What new startups should know about basic payroll
What are basic GST rules that new startups should know
Benefits of cloud based accounting and integrations
Target Audience
Startups/business owners, or individual who wants to learn and explore finance essentials and be able to have total control and confidence to handle the financial aspects of their startups.
Instructors
Aiman Ezanee
A graduate of Finance from MMU Cyberjaya, he was an early adopter of Xero accounting software and also a certified Xero advisor. A 10 years veteran of running his own medium sized enterprise, his interest lies in utilizing the internet technology such as automation and cloud computing for business expansion and development. He is the co-founder and now the lead technologist for SmartTax and also a managing partner for eXtracc.
Wan Rasheedah Wan Abdul Rahim
Wan Rasheedah is also a Xero certified advisor plus an ACCA holder. Before joining the cloud accounting industry, she has been in the accounting and finance industry for more than 8 years covering various portfolios such as freight forwarding, property, hospitality, legal practice and also in the investment industry. She is now a team leader and also an accounting advisor aka virtual CFO in eXtracc.
Tawfiq Asmawy
A graduate of HELP University with degree in Accounting, Tawfiq has spent the last 10 years in Hong Leong Bank. He has a vast banking experience having to climb his ranks from the takaful portfolio until he became a senior Internal Auditor for the Hong Leong group. He is now the business development leader for SmartTax and moonlights as a financial advisor.
Faisal Ahmad
A graduate of civil engineering from UTM, he was a practising engineer for 3 years in the oil and gas industry before calling it quits and pursue his major interest in the creative industry as a copywriter and a social media administrator for the past 8 years. He is knowledgeable in branding, advertising and content marketing and serving as the head of marketing for SmartTax.
Agenda
06.30 PM Registration & Refreshment
07.00 - 07.15 PM Introduction
07.15 - 07.30 PM Categories of Business Finance
07.30 - 07.45 PM Finance Jargons 101
07.45 - 08.00 PM Basic objective of accounting
08.00 - 08.30 PM Basic Payroll
08.30 - 08.45 PM GST Rules
08.45 - 09.00 PM Benefits of cloud based accounting and integrations
09.00 - 09.30 PM Q&A