List of commitments that you might have when you are working

Hi! When I started working and started to earn my own money, I never thought that I would ever have commitment. That time, I though, I could just get as far as a house rental and a car installment as a commitment. That's it.

As I work longer, I just realized that, they are not just that. They are actually more and I was unfortunate that my parents did not tell me or have compiled a list of commitments that I would have in the future for me.

Without realizing, I started to commit here and there little by little and they went beyond just house and car. I also realized that, some months things go out of control and I ended up in deficit position. So before things go out of control for you, let me lay out the list of possible commitments you are going to have:

Car loan installment
This commitment might take a huge amount of your salary depending on your car. This might range from RM400-RM1000 per month. This commitment usually will last for 9 years.

Motorbike loan installment
If you have a motorbike instead of a car, your commitment for motorbike could range from RM200-RM500 per month. The period is usually going to be 3 to 5 years. Again, depending on your motorbike.

Road tax & insurance for your vehicles
Road tax for your vehicles is also highly dependent on your vehicle. The easiest formula is the more expensive your car the higher your road tax is. Can start from RM200-RM1000 per year. Can go as long as you own the vehicle.

House rental
If you are someone who is migrating to the city for work. You might also have to commit to house rental. In the city, the rate is RM300-RM600 per room per month. This rate is for the house that is 20-30 KM from the city and the type of house is condominium and apartment. Can go as long as your stay.

Telephone bills
Telephone bills will be around RM100 per month.

Insurance
Insurance is optional.

- Housing loan installment
- Cukai taksiran/ Assessment
- Apartment service fee
- Indah Water

I am not sure about you but this is how I manage my commitments: 
My Commitment
 or
you can save them to your drive

How to register a sole proprietorship/partnership company at SSM in malaysia

Ever wonder how to register your company in Malaysia? Well it is actually very easy but time consuming.

Here I will share with all of you the step by step on how to get your company registered under Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia (SSM).

Below is the checklist on how to get your company registered:

Pre-Visit to SSM office

- If you want to use a trade name, brainstorm at least 3 names, the more the better because the name that you want might have been taken.

-Check the SSM office operating hours.

-Prepare MYR 70.00

-Bring a black pen and a copy of your IC.
-Be prepared mentally because last time I visit to get certificate, It took me 5 hours! @_@

During the visit to SSM office

- All members have to be present.

- Queue up for the form or get the form. There are 3 forms:

1. 1st small form is for office use.

2. 2nd form is where you put your choice of names and description of your business.

3. 3rd is the owner's details and also a more detailed description of your business. Have to be very detailed.

- All of these form have to be filled using BLACK pen with CAPITAL letters.

- After you have completed the form, queue up to get the numbers.

- There will be 3 counters that you have to go to:

1. Check your proposed company name whether it is available. If not then you have propose another name.

2. Payment.

3. Collection of the registration certificate.

- Done!

If you need to ask any questions feel free to email me @ nikhashemekamil@gmail.com

Credit/Debit Note Sender Project

Hello! I just finished a program called Credit/Debit Note Sender. I could have come up with a better name but I couldn't

Basically what it does is send credit or debit notes to my customers.

Previously, after we have process credit/debit notes, we have to manually generates them and send to our customers. The amount of credit notes need to be generated could go up until 90 a day. So we would spend time generating 90 credit notes to be sent out to different customers.

On top of that, since credit note sending is too time consuming we have fixed a day to just do all the credit note sending and it really takes up almost a day. Since we sent out credit notes once a week, it demotivates the customers to pay on time because they tend to wait for their credit notes to knock off so that they wont have to pay so much.

Now, since we have this, it is searching for credit note on a daily basis set to run at 1150PM. It is an unmanned process and triggered by time. It will search if there is any credit/debit note posted for the day and send them out to respective customers.

Thus, if let say that particular day, we have processed few credit/debit notes, they will be sent at 1150PM on the same day and customers would receive their Credit/Debit Note in the morning.

This is how it works

Benefit of this automation:
1. Eliminates administrative work (sending credit/debit notes via email to customers).
2. Save working time because it runs when no one is working.
3. Unmmaned and effortless unless the program is broken.
4. Since it has no human intervention, it eliminates error (error sending credit note that belongs to Customer A to Customer B.


It is always good to learn how to program. The time I took to write this program is 3 days but the time saving that I get back is 1/2 day per week until forever =).

SAP scripting and Task scheduler finishing checklist

This is the checklist to make sure that you program run smoothly:

1. Code to close SAP session after finish running.

• If you leave SAP inactive for a long time, it will disconnect and leaves an error.
• Since there is an error, error has to be closed first in order for the next script to runs. Next script is built based on normal situation (there is no SAP error)

2. Code to close the workbook after finish running.

• It is good if your program closes itself after it runs.

What is SAP scripting

According to SAP Community network

"SAP GUI Scripting is an automation interface that enhances the capabilities of SAP GUI for Windows and Java. Using this interface, end users may automate repetitive tasks by recording and running macro-like scripts. Administrators and developers on the other hand may build tools for server-side application testing or client-side application integration."

In my own term it means automation of repetitive, daily task. As an accountant, finance person or any field you are in that have a close relation numbers, you cannot runaway from repetitive work. 

SAP scripting functions are very similar to Microsoft Excel Macro. Thus, if you are familiar with Microsoft Excel Macro, you won't have much problem when it comes to SAP scripting.

Macro recording button

On the other hand, this is the SAP script recording button:

SAP script recording button

Alright! Lets stop here first. Will write on beginner's guide on how to use SAP scripting in the next entry. =)