To provide guidance to graduates on pursuing career as an Accountant.
b)
To ensure that accounting graduates acquires the appropriate degree of
professional capabilities and competence in order to qualify as a
Chartered Accountant in Malaysia.
This programme will serve as a tool to help accounting graduates to
monitor employment progress in a more effective manner
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Upon obtaining the relevant working experience, you will be eligible to
apply for the MIA membership and enjoy the benefits and other privileges
specially reserved for our members.
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Those under this programme will enjoy certain benefits such as
preferential rates to attend MIA events, purchase MIA publications and
other benefits which will be notified to CARE participants from time to
time.
No further examination is required as you have met the requirement under
Part 1 of the First Schedule of the Accountants Act, 1967,
or have successfully completed the MIA Qualifying Examination or who is
currently pursuing the membership of a recognised professional
accounting body listed in Part I of the First Schedule to the
Accountants Act 1965.
It is not necessary to engage a mentor for your previous employment. You would only be required to submit testimonial on your previous employment at the point of submission of your membership application form to MIA. However, if you have yet to obtain 3 years employment in accounting related, you would need to engage a mentor for the current and future employment/s.
You can ask your direct manager of supervisor to be your mentor. If you
can’t find a mentor, you can search for external mentor among our MIA
members.
Please contact your preferred mentor and invite him/her to be your
mentor. Once consent is obtained, please get the mentor to log into
http://care.mia.org.my
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If you have more than 1 supervisor, please appoint only 1 main
supervisor to be your mentor.
Update your working experience (to qualify as MIA member you need to
have minimum 3 years of accounting related experience)
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Record your competency levels specified under your employment
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Find a mentor to verify and assess your working experience and
competency level.
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Mentor will submit verification to MIA.
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Once your working experience has reached 3 years, please print and
submit your application for MIA membership together with photocopy of
IC, Passport sized photo (1), copy of your degree certificate and
testimonial for employment which is not recorded under CARE programme.
Yes, you can still be allowed to apply for MIA membership after
completed the 3 years of employment subjected to terms and conditions of
MIA membership requirements. It is advisable for you to find a mentor in
this CARE programme in order to ensure that you have achieved the
required level of competencies. If you still have a difficulty, please
inform MIA immediately.
Your mentor should be someone with whom you can work closely and meet
regularly, and also have strong commitment in guiding you throughout the
CARE programme. There is no issue on non-cooperative, if your mentor
agrees to act on this arrangement. Otherwise, you may have to find
another mentor and please ensure that the previous mentor has signed-off
all records regarding your experience.
A registered graduate who has acquired part of his/her experience under
the old system should achieve the requirements of CARE Programme on a
pro-rate basis. For example, if a registered graduate who requires 3
years of work experience for membership admission has acquired 2 years
of experience under the old system, he/she should achieve another 1 year
i.e. 200 working days of experience in the remaining 1 year under the
CARE programme.
In this case you should count the number of days gained for each area by
using pro-rate calculating basis. A working day is defined as a minimum
of 8 working hours a day. Therefore, for example, if you are doing two
areas simultaneously, you have to calculate number of hours a day for
each area, dividing by 8 hours, and then multiple it by number of days
gained i.e. 5 hours (taxation)/8 hours x 150 days = 94 working days and
3 hours (auditing)/8 hours x 150 days = 56 working days.
The frequency and length of meeting with your mentor will vary. You
should agree how and when your mentor will review your performance in
the first meeting with him/her. We recommend that the mentor and mentee
should meet regularly to review the progress and to rectify any problem
that may occur throughout the CARE programme.
We recommend that you keep your information up-to-date to ensure that
the appropriate competencies have been achieved are still fresh in mind.
It is also advisable that the mentor should sign off the CARE record
every three to six months. Always remember to update your CARE portal if
you are changing employment or mentor, and ensure your mentor has
reviewed and signed-off your CARE portal accordingly.
It is not necessary if the verification of mentee’s employment is up to
date and has been submitted to MIA. However, mentee is allowed to
request testimonial from their mentor who is also their direct manager.
A mentor will be entitled for 4 CPE credit hours per year, regardless of
the number of graduates that he/she mentors. However, should he/she mentor for
less than a year, the CPE credit hours will be prorated accordingly.
The verification should be done by one mentor only because mentor should
have knowledge and understanding of the mentee’s works. If mentor is not
competent in one of the areas, mentee should find an experienced person
e.g. immediate superior/head of department to countersign the respective
competency area.
