Business School Students Get Bright Ideas At Workshop
Bandar Seri Begawan - Forty Business School students participated a LiveWire "Bright Ideas" workshop to expand their knowledge on setting up a business.
The participants who joined the two-day workshop, which ended yesterday, comprised first year students of the National Diploma in Business and Finance and those taking the Secretarial course.
"As an inexperienced business student, it is valuable for me to attend workshops by experts in the field." The speakers at the workshop include project leader for the Coaching Scheme Institute in Brunei Shell Petroleum's Local Business Development Steven Song and LiveWire's Business Counsellor Hasrul Hairul Anuar Hj Abdul Kadir.
Both speakers introduced basic business knowledge and the various business ideas to the participants. They also gave the participants the opportunity to explore the choices available and procedures needed to be observed when starting a business.
Towards the end of the work-shop, the students were divided into groups of two for an exercise involving the use of financial statements. "The exercise is held to familiarise themselves with financial statements and how to base big business decisions from them," said Song, the exercise's facilitator.
Pengiran Redzuan Pengiran Hj Abbas, the LiveWire programme director, said that one of the main objectives of the programme is to embed the knowledge of business into the students' minds early in their lives. This is especially useful when a student has a business idea that they might be able to develop and make it into a reality in the near future, he added. -- Courtesy of The Brunei Times
