Sunday 31 January 2016

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR 2016




Hi!  Everyone,
Warm Wishes from the Money Tells Stories Team.

We would like to wish all of our Chinese clients, business associates, members and your families  'Happy Chinese New Year'. While for our other clients, business associates and members, we wish you a 'Happy Holiday'

"Wishing the fire Monkey year bring you abundant HAPPINESS, HEALTH, WEALTH, PEACE and LONGEVITY this coming Chinese New Year"
Gong Xi Fa Cai 


Thank you.

Friday 29 January 2016

FPAM ANNUAL LUNCHEON TALKS AND NETWORKING 2016

Very blessed day, everyone.

Time flies, this is the second time I am invited to attend FPAM annual luncheon talks and networking, just a few weeks away from Chinese New Year.

It's really a blessing to meet so many new people in this function. It is really a small world that I have met up with numerous familiar friends there. As usual, we managed to catch up with each other at this meaningful function.

In this connection, I write to express my thanks to the FPAM for inviting me to celebrate its annual luncheon function together with its sponsors, key speakers and financial players from various industries. Hope this will help to enhance our relationships further, better and deeper.

This celebration also made me proud to be there for being able to continuously play my new role as a trainer in the financial industry, apart from allowing me to network with others from other financial sectors. Mindful that networking is your net worth. Trust this is just the beginning of our collaboration and we will grow closer in the many good years to come. Who knows we all can collectively work together to prosper the financial industry further by blessing larger magnitude of people. So, never underestimate the power of networking.

Use your precious time to view those photos taken at the Sime Darby Convention Centre, Taman Tun area. Wow! I really enjoyed myself there.

Now it’s your time to either post your comment just below this post or send it to jamesoh2003@yahoo.co.uk. Thanks you in advance for your kind action.

Let us support each other professionally and personally so as to progress collectively.

Thanks to our strategic partners who have helped us achieve what we believe in. There is still a long journey ahead and we will continue to work toward our desired destination.

If you are keen to attend our workshop on specialized financial literacy, wealth and mindset, please email to jamesoh2003@yahoo.co.uk.

We are more than happy to contact you and making your dream happens is our mission and helping people to unleash their invisible wealth is our passion.

Thank you and wishing you have a great fruitful day,

James Oh

Chief Value Creation Officer


Wednesday 27 January 2016

BE THE MASTER AND NOT THE SLAVE OF YOUR MIND. DISCUSS

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same 

way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you 

can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, 

work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying 

to control.” -Elizabeth Gilbert

Sunday 24 January 2016

UNDERSTAND BUSINESS BEYOND THE NUMBERS

Introduction

Learn to deal with numbers comfortably, intelligently and wisely especially from the Financial Statements and correctly understand the story behind in line with the saying “Business is a right numbers game.” It covers fundamental principles, functional techniques and useful tips to correctly understand your business deeper and better so as help you navigate your business to next desired level by focusing on the Big Picture.

Take away for the audience
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     To have good and sound understanding of numbers (Facts), accounting (Means) and business (Big Picture); their relationships and appropriate interpretation.
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     To understand the importance of the Main Components of Financial Statements, their relationships and their limitations.
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     To equip yourself with the 9 Powerful Pointers which serve as your GPS that navigates you in reaching your goals with ease.
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     To habituate yourself with use of your mind faculties to explore the opportunities and turn ideas into actionable plans to achieve your desired results.
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      Alert to the external changes and respond appropriately to achieve sustainable business growth and profitability;
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     Craft own strategic path and plan respectively based on its own strengths and weaknesses;
·         Able to detect opportunities and the challenges of its current financial performance and position together with its insightful information.
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     To unleash the business potentials by focusing on 6Ps (People, Profit, Purpose, Performance, Process and Planet)

About the Speaker


James Oh is a financial and mindset training expert, thinker, leader and intensive researcher with 20 years of professional working experiences in various industries such as trading, construction, aviation and movies distribution with extensive exposure in both local and international levels. 

In the course of his practice, James had held senior specialist, supervisory, managerial and leadership positions and provided successful and effective strategic and operational plans to nurture the company he had worked with. His track record includes growing together with the founder of the company he worked with and got it listed and turned the company around when it was badly hit by the Asian Financial Crisis in 1986-7.

James has been featured in media multiple times such as the top investment magazine i.e. Smart Investor Magazine, Financial First, Money Compass, Corporate Voice Journal (MAICSA), Journal of Wealth Planning and Management. He has self-published eight books, specializes in value creation and he is the living proof in this aspect.  3 out of 8 books have been upgraded to second edition and beyond.

James graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy from the National University of Malaysia, and Laws degree from the London of University (UK). He is a Chartered Accountant with the Malaysian Institute of Accountant, Certified Professional Trainer with IPMA (UK) & PSMB Certified Trainer.

With his passion in sharing his know-how, experience and knowledge in both the financial and mindset fields, he was appointed as a trainer and speaker with various local professional institutions, and had shared economic updates with an international business club.

His recognition goes beyond the organization as he was invited to be one of the speakers at the 3rd Annual Elite Secretarial & Administrative Conference 2015 in Kuala Lumpur on Dec 2 & 3, a conference event organized by Camfori Training Provider that featured 10+ though leaders and speakers.

James Oh can be reached at jamesoh2003@yahoo.co.uk



Saturday 23 January 2016

THANKS TO MAICSA

Very awesome day to everyone!

Big HELLO!!! Thanks you again for dropping by in this MONEY TELLS STORIES blog! It's really cool to meet so many new impacting, influencing and inspiring people along our writing journey. Admittedly, social networking is truly exciting, entertaining and enriching as it enables us to share our experience, know-how and gifted talents in any field so easily by just a few clicks. Thanks to technology for the blessing and benefiting larger magnitude of people and peers beyond boundaries speedily become a reality.

Now, it is a known fact that there are so many kind people who are always ready to give you your required support in any way. So, take your courage to tap into and take full advantage of the available opportunity to bless the community you are living in. Let us feel the ripple effect of our kind work and efforts and let it keep spreading.

In this context, I am deeply delighted to express my gratitude to the MAICSA magazine for republishing one of my articles on wealth in its Corporate Voice Journal, Jul to Sept 2015 issue. This has enabled me to enter into corporates’ world with new capacity as a writer to serve our corporate community. 




With this platform, it will accelerate my writing journey into the corporate world and share my experience and know-how with its readers from all over the industries, a step closer to enlarge my clientele base. What matters most to me is to serve a larger community with my gifted talents specializing in value creation. Thus, I can’t thank MAICSA enough for making my dream a step closer to be who I supposed to be.

Now, it is my pay-back time to benefit others by enriching them with my nearly 30 good and solid years’ of my personal and professional experiences. My track record includes growing together with the founder of the company he worked with and get it listed on the KLSE and turned the company around when it was badly hit by the Asian Financial Crisis in 1986-7. My main intention is to stimulate the readers to craft their own ingenious paths to cope well with the current Uncertain, Volatile, Changing and Ambiguous situation and to provoke additional thoughts and actionable plans.

Trust this collaboration will prosper us in many ways so as to bless larger magnitude of people along our journey with this collectively vertical combination of our resources and networks in strengthening each others.  

So, to know more insightful information, please grab a copy of it and find out on your own. You may do so by click at this link, please furnish us your feedback. Your feedback is valuable for us to improve our quality so as to serve you better. You can either post your comment just below this post or send it to jamesoh2003@yahoo.co.uk. Thanks you in advance for your kind participation and care.

Let us help each other professionally and personally, in one untied force, so as to progress collectively. Turning dreams into realities is our mission. Never underestimate the power of dream especially the daytime dreams. It serves as fuel to the flame driving and directing us to accomplish our goals.

We are committed to upgrade every aspect we can afford in your best interest. This is because you are the one who help us to accomplish who we are today. Thank you!

You may also take a tour at my newly consolidated blog, at jamesoh2003.blogspot.com to know more comprehensively of what we are doing. Feel free to drop by and please share with your contacts if you find it useful and what is far important is that everyone can be benefited at the end of the day. Let our love of labour spread among our circles. Sharing is caring.

If you are keen to attend our workshop on specialized financial literacy, wealth and mindset, please email to jamesoh2003@yahoo.co.uk.

We are more than happy to contact you and making your dream happens is our mission and helping people to unleash their invisible wealth is our passion.

Thank you and wishing you have a great fruitful day,

James Oh

Chief Value Creation Officer



Wednesday 20 January 2016

NEVER TOO LATE TO REALIZE WHAT'S IMPORTANT IN YOUR LIFE

The picture below, aptly describes exactly what I saw from my daughter’s ballet dancing journey and similar to what I had gone through when writing my blogs, 8 books and training programmes specializing in value creation.

1)      Accumulated at least 10,000 hours (I have lost count) in isolation writing, practicing and meditating daily, without much social activity. Whatever label you used, be it the Law of Accumulation, Attraction, or Abundance. All are still applicable here in today’s world. What you are today is the accumulation of every effort, work and thing you do. In short, you reap what you sow.

2)      During the last 7 years, I had begun to build blogs, books and business in writing and training. At times, I had to minimize all of my expenditures which include cutting my social activities, travelling and entertainment to a very minimum level.

3)      However, for the last one year, I have conducted several training programs in other states in Malaysia to outreach larger magnitude of people so that they too benefited from these courses. Consequently, more doors are opened to me. Fortunately, I still enjoy my journey despite I felt worn out at times, but I was determined as I felt that I was on a race to finish where my journey start. Yes I must admit I was worn out, with some bruises and scars along the way. Yet I find it was worth all my effort, sweat and energy.

4)      “This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end and this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.”Winston S. Churchill. Stay on and explore more invisible, so that you too can achieve what you thought not possible. In line with the dance what my daughter had choreographed in her former school, Chung Hwa Independence High School, recently. See the photo below.


5)      I was so touched and inspired by it which describes life as struggling journey. The powerful message - “it’s never too late to realize what’s important in your life and fight for it.” I was caught by surprise by this dance.



Saturday 16 January 2016

FLYER:- THE SIMPLEST WAY TO DIAGNOSE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS



Programme:-

 “The Simplest Way to Diagnose Financial Statements” - Sharing by Mr. James Oh

Introduction

Rapidly changing business landscape has created a proliferation of global trading risks and costs, compounded by competition. Thus, invisible ingredients such as Purpose, Profit, Performance, People, Process and Planet (6Ps) become more evident and important.



There is a need to quickly identify the strengths and weaknesses from its financial statements so as to ascertain its 6Ps with much certainty.

The starting point is to have correct understanding of the connectivity between each component of financial statements at a much deeper level before you can look beyond to ascertain its potential, the pitfalls, strategic path and plan with much certainty.

Do you have any difficulty in diagnosing financial statements without losing sight of the big picture? If you do, then you should not miss this session.

In this session, you will learn from James:-
·        
      Simplest, practical and effective ways to analyse both the fundamentals and key functional aspects of the company;
·         Thorough understanding on how to build a strong financial foundation and framework by focusing on those key ingredients;
·         Identify both its key strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats;
·         Fundamental and functional aspects of financial statements;
·         Alert to the external changes and respond appropriately to achieve sustainable business growth and profitability;
·         Craft own strategic path and plan respectively based on its own strengths and weaknesses;
·         Able to detect opportunities and the challenges of its current financial performance and position together with its insightful information.


    
About the Speaker


James Oh is a financial, wealth and mindset specialist, thinker, leader and intensive researcher with nearly 30 years of professional working experiences in various industries such as trading, construction, aviation, movies investment and distribution. He is richly exposed in both local and international levels particularly in negotiating with the world leading aviation financiers, insurance and reinsurance brokers.

In the course of his practice, James had held senior specialist, supervisory, managerial and leadership positions by providing success oriented strategic and operational plans to nurture the company he had worked with. His track record includes growing together with the founder of the company he worked with and get it listed and turned the company around when it was badly hit by the Asian Financial Crisis in 1986-7.

James has been featured in media multiple times such as the top investment magazine i.e. Smart Investor Magazine, Financial First, Money Compass, Corporate Voice Journal (MAICSA), FlyMe360, Hospitality Asia, Journal of Wealth Planning and Management. He has self-published eight books, specializes in value creation.  4 out of 8 books have been upgraded to second edition and beyond. Moving beyond the Horizon is the mind skill course he has conducted for in-house program with the Non-Profit Organization.

His recognition goes beyond the organization as he was invited to be one of the speakers at the Secretarial Conference in Kuala Lumpur on Dec 2 & 3 2015, a conference event organized by Camfori Training Provider that featured comprehensive secretarial and financial strategies and solutions featuring 10+ thought leaders and speakers.

He is actively involved in financial training programs for various local professional institutions, and economic updates with an international business club.

James graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy from the National University of Malaysia, and Laws degree from the London of University (UK). He is a Chartered Accountant with the Malaysian Institute of Accountant, Certified Professional Trainer with IPMA (UK) & PSMB Certified Trainer and Competent Communicator with Toastmaster International.





Tuesday 12 January 2016

LAW OF ACCUMULATION



 “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”― Theodore Roosevelt

 "Do not measure yourself by your proximity to perfection, measure yourself by your efforts to achieve it."
- Erik Archer Smith


The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Friday 8 January 2016

GREAT START FOR ANOTHER AWESOME YEAR OF 2016

Dear Friends, Followers and Fans,

Thanks everyone for your kind support and encouragement that enables me to have a great kick start for January 2016 to yet another awesome month for me. As usual, my article will be featured in the Money Compass and Financial First. You may also find us at profile

My flagship book, Looking beyond Financial Statements – Third Edition was also recently published in Smash words and just in time to be kicked off with my next course on this topic on 5th Mar, 2016 in Ipoh. See what an awesome month of January brings to me; blessings after blessings and I pray that you too will receive much more blessings from Above. 



See my first and invaluable gift of 2016 from another great author, Kelvin Kiew. Attach below please find the front and back page of his physical book that I have recently received in my first visit to his office, Eurogain, at JalanTasik Selatan 3.





Wow! Best Jalan (Path) for Entrepreneurs & Intrapreneurs; sounds awesome with the tagline that we are all born entrepreneurs. This book serves as an eye-opener to the actual behind-the-scene of entrepreneurial world for those who aspire to be entrepreneurs. It also invites us to challenge ourselves whether we believe this statement or not. I must say that there is no coincidence and I consciously chose to believe the accuracy of the statement as I have also written a book of a similar nature before. Mindset Shift: Employee to Entrepreneur is the title of my book. It immediately ignites my flame working towards who I intent to be, in line with the saying, energy flows where intention goes.




The above event took place when a mutual friend, brought me to meet up with Kelvin It is a small world and he is another seasoned entrepreneur with solid 20 good years of experience. It was very timely as I was approached by a contact overseas in pursuit of this new field. 

Last but not least, I write to record my sincere thanks to him for giving me such a great book which discuss 5 best paths for entrepreneurs with much in-depth provoking thoughts.

This book is not only informative, but the readers will have much deeper understanding of the secrets of making any business successful especially in today’s fast changing and fluid world of government, business and community service. I have been so fortunate to have access to this book.

Stay tune for more exciting stories ahead. I can sense much more blessings coming along and I shall report to you guys as usual, from time to time.

Let us work together to make 2016 another awesome year. Please feel free to contact me at jamesoh2003@yahoo.co.uk should you have any ideas to explore further.

Another great session with Daryl Wong for his inspiring sharing of what to make a successful trainer, at the Horizon, Bangsar South City, KL. A new and fantastic location for a good year ahead!!!





Wednesday 6 January 2016

PROFILE OF JAMES OH AS AT JANUARY 2016

James Oh is a financial and mindset training expert, thinker, leader and intensive researcher with 20 years of professional working experiences in various industries such as trading, construction, aviation and movies distribution with extensive exposure in both local and international levels. 

In the course of his practice, James had held senior specialist, supervisory, managerial and leadership positions by providing successful and effective strategic and operational plans to nurture the company he had worked with. His track record includes growing together with the founder of the company he worked with and get it listed and turned the company around when it was badly hit by the Asian Financial Crisis in 1986-7.

James has been featured in media multiple times such as the top investment magazine i.e. Smart Investor Magazine, Financial First, Money Compass, Corporate Voice Journal (MAICSA), Journal of Wealth Planning and Management. He has self-published eight books, specializes in value creation.  3 out of 8 books have been upgraded to second edition and above.

James graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy from the National University of Malaysia, and Laws degree from the London of University (UK). He is a Chartered Accountant with the Malaysian Institute of Accountant, Certified Professional Trainer with IPMA (UK) & PSMB Certified Trainer.

He is actively involved in financial training programs for various local professional institutions, and economic updates with an international business club.

James Oh can be reached at jamesoh2003@yahoo.co.uk




Sunday 3 January 2016

Looking Beyond Financial Statements 3rd Edition is available

Dear Families, Friends, Followers and Fans, 

May 2016 brings endless happiness, excellent health and wealth to you and your family. An awesome year ahead, Happy New Year 2016.

2016 will see me move my business in a much bigger way and I'm very inspired to create something NEW by kicking off my flagship book, Looking Beyond Financial Statements 3rd Edition pretty soon at  books/view/604618 I would love your help, so I can create exactly what you want and need. Please channel your feedback to me. Thank you in advance.

Please take just a couple of minutes to let me know your #1 single largest challenge RIGHT NOW, specifically, with your Workshops, Retreats, and/or Seminars. 

Always remember today is the first blank page of a 366 page book for 2016, let us help each other to write a great new page. Good is not good enough. 

You may reach me at jamesoh2003@yahoo.co.uk should you have any idea to chat with us.

James Oh 

Chief Value Creation Officer
FINANCE MAVERICK, SPEAKER AND AUTHOR 


Saturday 2 January 2016

CATCH MY LATEST ARTICLE IN MONEY COMPASS

The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the thing you fear.” Brian Tracy.  


Those who know me long enough will agree that I was an introvert  and never will deliver any speech or publish any article to the public. However, throughout the years, I have been doing the things I fear. Finally, I managed to build my muscle to even overcome the no 1 most fear according to the American’s statistics. As such, I do hope we will encourage and support each other to overcome our fear, one by one, for our mutual benefits.  

This is my second article featured in Money Compass and I am deeply grateful for this opportunity. Success breed success and I hope I can take a much bigger role in financial literacy since I have been in this field for nearly 30 years. 








I will try to stretch out my boundaries into publishing my financial-related knowledge into other magazines to reach out to more readers. This has helped me  build a much stronger foundation to move to higher level of success. You can reach me at at jamesoh2003@yahoo.co.uk should there be any  such opportunity.

This collaboration with my existing and new strategic partners, followed by more initiatives and more innovations to move ourselves to another level by focusing on developing our core competencies to be a leading specialist in achieving sustainable value creation. Leveraging has its magic power.

I don’t mind to share with you that I unknowingly subscribed to this recipe to advance my business to what I am today. No doubts, it is still a long journey to go, but one thing certain is that we will constantly develop our new capability to serve the new and under-served markets.

We believe that by staying focused to doing what we do best using our gifted talents and experience to serve people around the globe, we have achieved sustainable business growth and profitability by setting a good role model.

This is our best practice that every time we accomplish a project or get a compliment for a contribution we have made to the world, we will take a moment to let it sink in our hearts. Allow satisfaction and fulfillment to enter our hearts. It will then continue to energize us to take up another bigger task. That’s how the momentum will build up.

One thing we are very sure is having more actions and innovations to have much greater impact. This is also in line with our belief that we must pay back to the society where we have been benefiting from.

To play a larger role with much greater impact, we will actively participate in what is the next big thing in our fields. Where the opportunities are right now and the highlights we should look out for in the near future regardless of what is our situation?

We must be in control at all times no matter what. Always direct our energies in the area of our focus. Slowly and surely we will achieve what we desired.  

Please help us to spread around if you find it inspiring. By doing so, we are able to serve a larger magnitude of people. Hope you too can begin to imagine the immense nuggets of gold waiting for you.

To your success,



James Oh

Chief Value Creation Officer