One of my fren working in Tuas as mechanical engineer is fetching a salary of $2,450 (5.5 days week). What do u mean by junior auditor?

Who's paying? You personally or your new employer?

Anyway, RM20K is only S$8K. Only 1 month salary or so. Sap sap sui lah 

I pay by myself too!! wtf!!  
when u start your new job?

Ohh... that's got to hurt. G'luck, mate.

u r in which industry?

energy management as in greenmark? or a consultant??

anyway posb and dbs (local banks) is 500
uob, citibank, hsbc etc (non-local) is 1k

dbs n posb abang adik so u open dbs or posb u can withdraw from either atm

others sum places may not hav atm machines hsbc for example very few

If you're the sort to withdraw $10-$20 each time only and you withdraw like everyday, anywhere, whenever you need to pay for lunch etc.. then DBS/POSB will be the best. They have the most ATMs in town, but also the most extensive network of ATMs in the HDB estates.

However if you withdraw like $1000 one time, once a month, then any bank will be okay as long as it's convenient to your routine or route. I like using Maybank and Std Chartered as they have internet banking savings accounts (ie. no passbook and you have to pay for counter service) which pay higher than POSB FD rates. I get ATM & cheque book from SCB (eSaver a/c) and debit card from Maybank (iSavvy a/c). But I still use POSB as my salary account as I like the convenience of the ATM network. I just transfer whatever I want to save to SCB and Maybank after my salary is credited.

Internet banking is free for all banks.

What I mean by internet banking account is that you can only perform transactions on these accounts using the internet portal or using the ATM/Debit card. There are no passbooks or statements and any transactions over the counter or at branches will be charged fees.

OK, ok, I get what you mean. Let me clarify.

Internet banking in Singapore (regardless of bank) ie. conducting banking transactions over the internet: FREE. So, any intrabank & interbank transfers are free. Bill payment is free. Online share payments are free (separate from stockbroking fee). Deposit placements & uplifts are free.

Using the bank's internet portal ie. are you charged to log on and use the bank's i-banking website; FREE... for the banks that I use (ie. DBS/POSB, SCB & Maybank). Some may charge 'administrative fees' for portal use and individual transactions, but not for the banks I listed.

im going to quit soon..already tired working here
(7months)

wat do you guys mena by compensation? compensate company for?

any tips to successfully get called for an interview in sing?  I've jobstreet and monster accounts.........Altought i do not have jobDB and reqruit it account but I do take contact mails and mail directly to companies.......but I hardly get any answers    Ive even thinked of sending the same company updates but I think that would be too pushy 

and how much does a 4year experience in IT expected salary should be?3.2k? takkan nak letak "willing to work for free" 

For ACCA holders, one may apply for:-
1) Auditor - $2,400 (Big 4 but you may like work 7 days a week) $2,000 (chinaman audit firm - more balance between work and leisure)
2) Accounts Exec - $2,800
3) Junior Tax Officer - $2,500
4) Business and IT - $2,800

The above is just a rough firgure which varies on the company you join and its salary structure.

Hmmm... looks like yesterday's postings in this thread were lost. Way to go, LYN.

Anyway kockroach,.. I am in finance but not in finance services (ie. banking, audit etc). I'm working in the finance dept of a chem mfg MNC.

As for your question about the current job mkt for accountants... one word - BAD. Even the perennial hirers ie audit firms have frozen non-critical hiring and a couple are even talking about salary cuts.

Banks are not hiring at all, not even for replacements for leavers and retirees. A possible exception is in the product control dept. But they don't want newbies. All the ads I've seen are looking for experienced financial controllers to fill AVP level roles to implement new operational controls.

As for large corporates... I don't think anybody is hiring. My company is retrenching 11% of our staff. Salary freeze and no promotions. It's the same every where. Nobody's hiring unless it's critical. And fresh accountants are simply not critical. Most choose to outsource low level accounting work.

IMHO, the only finance skills in high demand right now are product or operations control (for banks), or cost reduction / profit recovery analysis (for corporates).

The other option is civil service. They have ramped up hiring. Last Saturday's Straits Times had a big pullout for civil service job classifieds.

Unless you are willing to support her AND her commitments (whatever they are), if she cannot find a job in Singapore, then let her stay where she is. The focus now is to stay employed, unless of course love can fill the tummy.

Coincidentally, I just bought a Nokia E63 from KL. It's not yet launched in Sg, but going by other models, Malaysian phones are cheaper by at least the 7% GST. With the exception of Sony Ericsson, where 6range Mobile in Carrefour offers some very competitive deals.

The only issue is the warranty. Phones never have international warranties.

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Added on February 28, 2009, 7:59 pmNo... AP sets are also original manufacturer units. Just that they are parallel imports, ie. imported by someone else other than the official distributor. So, the manufacturer warranty (usually provided by the official distributor) is not extended to parallel imports. In Malaysia, these phones are called AP units. In Singapore, they are called export units. You can find a lot of export units sold in Chinatown, Sim Lim, Lucky Plaza and HDB estates.