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From Ching Chen CHANG 10/05/2016
0 0 likes | 16 16 viewsWhether you are a business or you are a not-for-profit business, the only way to sustain it is financial resources. Without financial resources, you can't do… -
From Ching Chen CHANG 10/05/2016
0 0 likes | 6 6 viewsI spent a big part in the 80s and up to the mid-90s, with the same bank for twenty years and being the Chief Financial Officer. So, in that role, there is the helping… -
From Ching Chen CHANG 10/05/2016
0 0 likes | 6 6 viewsEverything from system to money, these two were the major things. They were running the books on a spread sheet, and we were recruiting people. The payroll was building… -
From Ching Chen CHANG 10/05/2016
0 0 likes | 6 6 viewsIn the case for SMU at that time, it was really a start-up. The planning team in SMU was still negotiating with MOE [Ministry of Education] on the start-up funding just… -
From Ching Chen CHANG 10/05/2016
0 0 likes | 5 5 viewsWe want to be a world-class research university. We want to be distinguished in our education. So those are very broad. But at which level do we want to be benchmarking… -
From Ching Chen CHANG 10/05/2016
0 0 likes | 4 4 viewsFirst, was to help management and the board decide how should we manage tuition fee. When we look at the long-term financial need of the university, we only recognise… -
From Ching Chen CHANG 10/05/2016
0 0 likes | 18 18 viewsThe first challenge is ourselves. How do we convince our own stakeholders, the schools and all that, to first embrace a common strategy and for them to articulate their… -
From Ching Chen CHANG 10/05/2016
0 0 likes | 8 8 viewsBut when I created the accounting system and the planning system, at the back of my mind was to make it such that it helps us understand the business dynamics of SMU,… -
From Ching Chen CHANG 10/05/2016
0 0 likes | 5 5 viewsUniversities are not-for-profit and for public service and also subsidised so, like I say, you need various sources of funding to come in. Tuition fee, government… -
From Ching Chen CHANG 10/05/2016
0 0 likes | 4 4 viewsPersonally, has been a wonderful, learning journey. But also, it's a place where, if I look back, I have basically through my whole career, I have gone through… -
From Ching Chen CHANG 10/05/2016
0 0 likes | 5 5 viewsYes, in the sense if you look back, it is easier to be a growing up kid. Now, you are a teenager. From my perspective, challenges of course, financial, because we are… -
From Ching Chen CHANG 10/05/2016
0 0 likes | 13 13 viewsWhen I look at our students and our graduates, what concerns me is many of them are focused on, I guess primarily, career and money. But to me, life is more than that.… -
From Ching Chen CHANG 10/05/2016
0 0 likes | 8 8 viewsI guess the role of CFO has changed, not just for university but in general. Primarily also because of the changes in the marketplace. Traditionally, many CFOs are very… -
From Ching Chen CHANG 10/05/2016
0 0 likes | 4 4 viewsSo the reputational risk of a university is important. Therefore, from a CFO's perspective, it's to make sure that any new thing that we embark on whether it… -
From Ching Chen CHANG 10/05/2016
0 0 likes | 4 4 viewsYes, when we first started, of course, we had nothing and we only have an aspiration to teach in a certain way and hope to produce students that the marketplace wants.… -
From Ching Chen CHANG 10/05/2016
0 0 likes | 4 4 viewsMy daughter was the first child of a staff to enrol in the school and it was in its third year. From what I heard and saw in the first one, two years, I say the system…
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