The University’s Department of Accountancy, Faculty of Economics, Management and Accountancy (FEMA) recently presented 15 awards to the Master in Accountancy 2013-2015 graduate group.
• The Malta Institute of Accountants Best Student of the Year Prize was awarded to Louise Grima.
• The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales Prize for Best Dissertation was presented to Christine Bartolo for her dissertation ‘The role and effectiveness of the Maltese PAC in public accountability’.
• Marija Vella won the Deloitte prize for the Best Dissertation in Professional Issues in Accountancy for her dissertation ‘Why take on accountancy as a profession? Investigating students’ motivations’.
• The other Deloitte prize, that for Best Dissertation in Taxation, was jointly awarded to Faye Marie Gauci Grech for her dissertation ‘The debt-equity bias in Maltese corporate entities: A taxation perspective’, to Robert Grima for his dissertation ‘The creative Economy: The continuous enhancement of Maltese film incentives’, and to Luca Pace for his dissertation ‘Analysing the attribution of profits to permanent establishments in Malta through the experience of practitioners’.
• Isabel Cutajar won the EY Award on Corporate Governance for her dissertation ‘The significance of the AGM in improving corporate governance of Maltese listed companies’, while EY’s Internal Audit Award was won by Kimberly Spearing for her dissertation ‘The working papers of Maltese internal auditors: an analysis’.
• The Grant Thornton Prize for Law Related to Accountancy was awarded to Victoria Decelis for her dissertation ‘The prevention of money laundering procedures by online gaming companies in Malta: an assessment’.
• The KPMG Financial Accounting Prize was won by Janica Aquilina for her dissertation ‘The accounting development at the Central Bank of Malta’. The KPMG Prize in Internal Auditing and Control was awarded to Danica Tonna for her dissertation ‘The effectiveness of internal audit planning in Maltese companies: an assessment’.
• The RSM Malta Prize in Finance was awarded to Christabelle Borg for her dissertation ‘The setting up of a new private school in Malta: A feasibility study’.
• The External Auditing Prize sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers was awarded to Glen Paris for his dissertation ‘Auditors’ adjustments in the finalisation of audited financial reporting in Malta’.
• The PWC Prize in Risk Management was won by Mark Saliba for his dissertation ‘Direct overseas investment by large Maltese corporate entities and the associated risk’.
• The Co-operative Societies Prize sponsored by the Central Co-operative Fund was awarded to Lara Mintoff for her dissertation ‘Major stakeholders’ perceptions of the Maltese co-operative and their implications’.
• This year’s Nexia BT Prize was awarded to Rebecca Carabott for her dissertation ‘Performance measurement in divisionalised organisations: a study in local groups of companies’.
• The National Audit Office Public Sector Accounting and Auditing Prize was won by Francesca Camilleri for her study on ‘Value for money of the tendering procedure across ministries’.