Effective Budgeting for Businesses Today - Shum, Dominic

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Résumé :
Having been in industry for more than twenty-eight years and being involved in business planning and budgeting during that period, I have been conducting training and facilitating EMBA classes on similar topics. In such sessions, I often encourage participants and students to ask question as I have considerable experiences in budgeting for them to pick my brains on. However, in most cases, the time allocated for such seminars or lectures are limited, and participants and students have asked questions regarding my experiences in the topic beyond the contact hours stipulated while others have requested for more literature on the subject. It is with this background that I find motivation to write this book to fulfil the participants' demand for more information and to reach out to a wider audience on the topic of budgeting. This book is thus drawn upon my own experiences as a professional in the field and feedback given by my many participants and students who attended by seminars or classes. It is my hope that this book can provide clarity on the topic and is easily assimilated by all who does budgeting or is studying how to do it. Happy reading and profiting from it.

Biographie:
Dominic graduated from the highly ranked National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree and went on to complete a MBA from the Australian Institute of Business majoring in Entrepreneurial Management. He is a qualified accountant and a certified company secretary. He has many years of senior management experiences with large multinationals and listed companies in the areas of management accounting, budgeting, strategic planning and financial management. He held senior positions such as Board Director, Regional Business Planning Manager, Financial Controller, Group Finance Manager, Lecturer and Corporate Affairs Director among other positions. Dominic is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Public Accountants Australia and was Council Member of their Kuala Lumpur branch. He is also a fellow member of the Institute of Financial Accountants (UK), a Certified Life Fellow member of the Institute of Commercial and Industrial Accountants Malaysia, a Certified Member of the Malaysian Association of Company Secretaries and member of other professional bodies. He is currently principal consultant and trainer of his own independent firm, DRC Services, and an associate trainer with EventsMastery Asia Pacific Sdn. Bhd., He is an EXCO member of the prestigious Malaysian Economic Association and was an industrial advisor to the Berjaya University College of Hospitality's MBA program. Dominic lives in the Melaka state of Malaysia with his family and has written many articles for professional journals such as the Commercial Accountant Journal, the Malaysian Corporate Secretary Journal and blogs. He is the co-author of the Malaysian Institute of Insurance's Insurance Claim book and one of the contributor for the book Insights on Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility.