ACCOUNTANT STUDENTS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 249, 15 July 1920, Page 8

ACCOUNTANT STUDENTS

The annual public speaking competition of the Accountant Students' Society for the trophy donated by the president (Mr. E. AV. Hunt) took place last night. The conditions of the competition required that each candidate should read in ten minutes an essay written by himself on a subject embraced by the accountancy examinations. After the reading, the competitor was subjected for five minutes to questions by the 9 audience. Ho thon had to make an lm--8 promptu speech, for eight minutes, in ; accordance with the following rule:— r "The competitor is to assume thnt hs " has bc?n requested, ns the auditor and financial adviser of a limited company, to 5 address n meeting of the board of 5 directors on the question _ of the ad--1 visibility, in view of existing conditions, "' of writing down the stock-iu-lrade. and the 3 general effect of such writing down on ? the present and future operations of the L ' company." The following candidates entered for ' the competition :—L. O. Atkinson (essay subject, "The Company Secretary"); T. 1 A. Barrow ("Farm Accounts"), E. It. > Cameron ("Departmental Accounts"); L. -' A. Jones ("Depreciation"); W. A. Keeblo 5 ("Secret Reserves"). Mr. H. D. Vickery, L ' F.P.A. (N.Z.). who acted as judge, 0 awarded first place to. Mr. T. A. Barrow.