Top Accounting, Taxation, and Commercial Law students celebrated
Top students in the School of Accounting and Commercial Law (SACL) were honoured in front of staff, friends, and family recently at the School’s Achievements Ceremony in Rutherford House.
The annual awards recognise the highest achieving students who have excelled academically across the Accounting, Taxation, and Commercial Law disciplines. Several prizes were also awarded to the top students of a number of the School’s postgraduate courses.
At the awards ceremony on Monday evening, Acting Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Dean of Commerce Professor Jane Bryson said it was great to acknowledge the successes of the outstanding students amongst their friends, family, fellow students, University supporters and staff.
“Students come from far and wide to study at Wellington School of Business and Government. As a capital city business school, embedded in the heart of New Zealand’s centre of innovation, entrepreneurship, policymaking, we focus on equipping our students with the skills they need to make the most of their careers in the fields of business and government.
“To all those receiving awards tonight – my deepest congratulations! We do our very best to provide the teaching and resources you need to achieve what you have, but these awards recognise your hard work, commitment and dedication to your education and to being the very best you can be,” said Professor Bryson.
Peter Vial, the New Zealand Head of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, also spoke—congratulating students and highlighting the bright future ahead for people pursuing accounting and taxation as a career.
“Those joining the profession are joining it because they are attracted to the opportunities it offers. But their expectations are different. They won’t be expecting to spend a career in one firm or company or even one profession; they will be expecting to move in and out of careers and jobs and in and out of work – making the most of life’s opportunities.
“I am convinced that there is a strong future for our profession. To a degree of course the future of the profession is already here. It is and will be a future that requires different skills. It is and will be made up of people who are strategic, collaborative, creative, forward looking, adaptive, agile and passionate about what they do. They will operate in real time and will integrate all the benefits of technology into their work. They are and will be trusted advisers, critical thinkers, problem solvers and multi-taskers with amazing analytical and interpretative skills. Above all they will be human beings with human skills that can’t be replicated by machines.”
Associate Professor Bryson also expressed her gratitude for the generous support received from sponsors in celebrating our students.
“We are proud of the strong relationship we enjoy with leading New Zealand businesses, professional bodies and government agencies. Your involvement in these awards not only demonstrates your ongoing support for the Wellington School of Business and Government, but your investment in the future leaders who are in this room tonight.”
Prize winners
Puteri Nursaadah Amran—KPMG Prize in Financial Accounting (ACCY 231)
Charlotte Best—CPA Australia Prize in Accounting (most outstanding third year student majoring in Accounting), Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand Prize in Advanced Management Accounting (ACCY 302)
Matthew Clark—Auditor-General’s Prize for Government Accounting and Finance (best student in ACCY330)
Jingjie Du—Khanna Prize in Management Accounting (ACCY 402)
Ebony Williams—Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand Prize in Law of Organisations (COML 204)
Lili Huang—CPA Australia Prize for Master of Professional Accounting (MPA)
Reuben Johnson—KPMG Prize in Management Accounting (ACCY 223)
Shenae Kennedy—Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand Prize for Introduction to Accounting Information Systems (ACCY 225)
Claudia Layton—Robin Oliver Tax Policy Scholarship
Anna Te—KPMG Prize in Taxation (TAXN 201)
Grace Windhager—KPMG Prize in Fundamentals of Accountancy (ACCY 115)
Excellence Awards winners
Amira Nabila Abdul Razak—Accounting
Nooreen Syafiqa Azam Khan—Accounting
Danissa Azrulnizam— Accounting
Jasmine Fegan—Accounting
Catherine Fletcher—Accounting
Tama Hoare—Accounting
Stuart Leslie—Accounting
Miriam May—Accounting
Aliesha Mitchell—Accounting
Nga Nguyen—Accounting
Miles Sandston—Accounting
Navroz Singh—Accounting
Alice Varney—Accounting
Ebony Williams—Accounting
Reena Iffatul Camelia Reezal Merican—Accounting and Commercial Law
Timothy Kriel—Accounting and Taxation
Claudia Layton—Accounting and Taxation
Francesca Gross—Commercial Law
Dhanisha Harshad—Commercial Law
Bryn Heatley—Commercial Law
Rohan Manaena—Commercial Law
Brittany O'Malley—Commercial Law
Tam Pham—Commercial Law
Zahn Philip—Commercial Law
Brittany Phillips—Commercial Law
Hamish Rybinski—Commercial Law
Sophia Smith—Commercial Law
Iylia Adlin Zulkifli—Commercial Law
Shenae Kennedy—Commercial Law and Taxation
Helen Pang—Commercial Law and Taxation
Samuel Davies—Taxation
Rebecca Shaw—Taxation
Katherine Vodanovich—Taxation
Stephanie-Lee Wood—Taxation