Top students in the School of Accounting and Commercial Law were recently honoured at the School's annual achievements ceremony.

Awards were presented for excellence in Accounting, Commercial Law, and Taxation, along with a number of students also commemorated for prizes they had won in some of the School's sponsored courses.

The ceremony was held in the Hunter Council Chamber in the presence of family and friends of the award-winning students, SACL staff members, representatives from the sponsoring firms and organisations, and friends of SACL.

Keynote speaker Garth Ireland congratulated the award-winners and encouraged them to appreciate the high quality of the courses they were studying.

Garth is chair of the SACL and CAGTR Advisory Board, a director of financial advisory firm Ireland, Wallace & Associates Limited, and is an alumnus of the Victoria Business School.

Full list of award winners

• Siobhan Rachael Bassett - KPMG Prize in Advanced Financial Accounting
• Sarah Boyle - Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand Prize for Law of Organisations
• Sarah Ashleigh Burr – KPMG Prize in Auditing
• Rebecca Kate Clarke - Deloitte Prize for Advanced Taxation
• Bianca Heffernan* - KPMG Prize in Taxation
• Mohamed Akmal Idris* - CPA Australia Prize in Accounting
• Michelle Kai Lu - KPMG Prize in Advanced Domestic Taxation
• Olayinka Moses - RW Steele Scholarship in Accounting
• Muhammad Firdaus Muhammad Nadzri - Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand Prize for Accounting
• Callum Oliver* - Auditor-General's Prize for Government Accounting & Finance
• Daniel O'Sullivan - Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand Prize for Introduction to Accounting Information Systems
• Shane Philipsen - Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand Prize for Advanced Management Accounting
• Vladimir Samoylov - RW Steele Scholarship in Accounting
• Jonty Sanders - Internet NZ Prize
• Muhammad Faris Zulkifle - KPMG Prize in Financial Accounting

Certificate of Excellence in Accounting

Callum Brazier - Rebecca D'Souza - Aimee Edwards - Ramachandran Gnanasekaran - Henry Graham* - Zoe Hawthorne - Courtney Hook - Georgia Ingham - Millicent Jackson - Chun Kwan* - Cameron Martin - Greer Mullin - Roshan Patel - Daniel Phillips - Scott Riordan - Siti Samsul - Alison Snellen* - Muhammad Faris Zulkifle

Certificate of Excellence in Commercial Law

Shaun Bradley - Ruby Campbell - Anneka Herdson* - Phoebe Ikin - Natasha Ingram - Ashleigh Parker – April Richardson - William Townsend - Lauren Walker

Certificate of Excellence in Taxation

Michael Chatterley - Ashleigh Dale - Kelly David* - Blake Hawes* - Mohamed Akmal Idris* - Rosemary Murphy - Alice Niland-Williment* - Chelsea Spencer - Harry Tothill*

Certificate of Excellence in Two Disciplines

Accounting and Taxation - Georgia Allen

Accounting and Commercial Law - Sarah Boyle

* in absentia

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