Educational Qualification

Mr Hoa graduated with Honours in Law from the prestigious University of London and is also a member of the Middle Temple Inn Bar, United Kingdom.

Professional Experience

He was formally an in-house corporate legal counsel with various prominent real estate companies and is currently a Senior Group Director/Legal Manager/Business Consultant of various companies in Singapore.

Lecturing Experience

Mr Hoa had been invited to lecture on Corporate and Business Laws including Law of Contract and Company Law, Real Estate/Property Laws and many other law modules at various established institutions and companies in Singapore, which included but not limited to Singapore Institute of Commerce/Stansfield Group of Companies and had even given talks/seminars on Laws to the public and professional sectors in hotels and companies.

In addition, Mr Hoa was even invited to write articles on laws and real estate in various magazines like "The Smart Investor" Magazine, "The Singapore Law Gazette", "Singapore Property Guide" and was even invited to contribute articles of law and real estate in the main newspapers, "The Straits Times" and had further been invited to give talks in Mandarin via Radio 95.8FM on corporate matters in Singapore.

Mr Hoa is currently lecturing for the Academy for ACCA Paper F4 and ATTS Paper 3 module (Corporate and Business Law), and is also a Law Lecturer in Singapore Manufacturers Association (SMA) for Murdoch University Bachelors Degree Singapore Corporate and Business Law Module and MDIS Group of Companies for Legal Framework I Law Module in Australian Laws for their various academic degree qualifications programmes including Edith Cowan University Australia (ECUni).

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Educational Qualification

Andy holds a professional qualification in MIS from the Institute for the Management of Information Systems (IMIS) U.K. and he is former IMIS Gold Medalist in the Systems Analysis and Design paper, and Silver Medalist of IMIS Graduate Diploma worldwide. Currently, Andy is pursuing his MBA.

Professional Experience

Andy started his career as a lecturer in one of the ACCA Platinum tuition providers in Malaysia where he conducted seminars and workshops on exam study skills which have benefited a lot of students.

Andy then ventured into business in order to get exposure to real business world. After which, he returned to the education industry where he started his international lecturing in Malaysia, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, Brunei, Singapore and Africa with one of the international ACCA Platinum tuition Providers.

He is now providing trainings to junior lecturers in several ACCA colleges in Malaysia and Africa on ACCA Papers F1 and P3. Besides, he had also conducted CPD training to ACCA affiliates and members in Africa.

Lecturing Experience

Andy has vast international lecturing experience in teaching various professional courses including the ACCA, CIMA, ABE, ICSA and University of London (UOL) external programme. His international lecturing experience has also given insights to his students the global perspectives of the papers.

Currently Andy is a freelance lecturer of ACCA specialising in Strategic Management and Information Systems related papers of the ACCA. Having lectured for 10 years, Andy has taught more than 10,000 students worldwide has produced thousands of ACCA graduates worldwide.

Andy now teaches Papers F1 and P3 in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong (SAR), Macao (University of Macao) and China (Jiao Tong University, Shanghai).

With his commitment, he has produced constant high passing rates and in some occasions 100% passes in papers that he lectures. as well as Top Country Award students in CAT and ACCA Papers. In the past two years he produced in total 27 prizewinners worldwide. These include 2 top country prizes for Paper 3.5 (the precedence of P3) two years in a row.

In the December 2007 exam alone, Andy produced in total 7 prizewinners which include 3 prizewinners for CAT Paper T5 (1st, 2nd and 3rd prize in Singapore), 3 prizewinners for ACCA Paper F1 (1st, 2nd and 3rd prize in Singapore) and a Gold Medalist in Singapore who studied 3 papers under Andy including Paper P3 since 2006.

With such a great result, Andy was awarded the Lecturer of the year in 2003 by one of the international ACCA Platinum tuition providers.

In March 2008, Andy was also conferred the Best ACCA Pass Rate Lecturer Award 2007 by Singapore Accountancy Academy (SAA-GE), the training arm of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore (ICPAS)

As a result of Andy’s achievement, he had been invited by the ACCA to conduct seminars in various locations. These include the post examination review seminar in Hong Kong City University, Exam study workshop in Malaysia and Train the trainer workshop in Beijing.

Throughout the years Andy has developed a comprehensive set of study pack comprises his self-written exam focused Study notes and practice kits with his self produced answers for the past year questions. Andy’s lectures has also been turned into online class and sold online in Hong Kong (SAR) for students who cannot attend his class.

Being capable of speaking several languages and dialects, he makes students UNDERSTAND and be able to APPLY knowledge in the case study as well as IMPROVE exam-writing skills that help lots of weak students PASSING the examination at the FIRST ATTEMPT! These make Andy a lecturer like no other that you definitely do not want to miss for Papers F1 and P3!

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Educational Qualification

Ben Lee is a member of the ACCA, UK; he also has an MBA in International Business (UniSA).

Professional Experience

Ben Lee has more than fifteen years of extensive industrial experience in the area of accounting and finance. He was the Chief Finance Officer of a Local Public Listed Company with regional distribution network before heading the Department of Accounting and Finance of another Public Listed Company with international business establishments.

Lecturing Experience

Mr Lee is an associate lecturer with University of Wales, University of Bradford and Southern Cross University. He is also actively involved in corporate training; some of the companies that he had provided training are Siemens, Maxtor, Caltex and NTUC. He specializes in the area of financial management, financial and management accounting.

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Chee Hay Kheong    FCPA Australia, FCPA Singapore

Educational Qualification

Mr Chee is an Accountancy graduate (Honours) from the National University of Singapore. He held a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) qualification in 1993 to 1996 while he was specializing in computer auditing.

Professional Experience

Mr Chee has more than 17 years of professional experience in accounting, auditing, information technology, with international accounting firms both in Singapore and United Kingdom. He was a venture capitalist and also managed the operations of the Singapore subsidiary of a European listed company. He was a council member of the Ang Mo Kio-Cheng San Community Development Council in 2000 and 2001. Currently, he serves as a committee member of three committees in the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore (ICPAS): the IT Committee, the ICPAS-CPA Australia Joint Development Committee and the Examination Committee. He also serves as a committee member in the Accounting & Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA).

Lecturing Experience

Mr Chee has several years of lecturing experience in the ACCA programme and Advanced Diploma Programme (for an external University Degree examination).

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Educational Qualification

Mr. Chow is a Chartered Accountant of Malaysia and a fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, UK (ACCA). He also holds a MBA (Finance) from Charles Stuart University Australia. He was formerly a World Gold Medal for LCCI examinations and completed his ACCA examinations in the minimum period of 2 years with straight passes. Mr. Chow adapts his excellent academic background and learning experience in teaching his students.

Professional Experience

Mr. Chow started his career as Audit and Tax Assistant in a Public Accounting firm. He was once the General Manager and Academic Head of the Business School division of a Private University in Malaysia. Currently he is a freelance lecturer and consultant in his own practice. He has conducted many public seminars and in-house trainings for various listed companies and MNCs. such as Petronas, Berjaya Group, National Panasonic, Big 4 audit firms, Vietnam Auditing Company, Brunei Shell, etc.

Lecturing Experience

Mr. Chow has more than 15 years of experience in teaching Financial Management and Management Accounting. In ACCA, he specializes in lecturing paper F2, F5, F9, P4 and P5. He lectures extensively all over Asia in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong (SAR), China, Vietnam, Brunei and Indonesia. Over these years, he has trained more than 13000 students worldwide. Students rated his teaching skills as excellent, very systematic and easy to understand. Many students followed him through from paper F2 to P5. Besides ACCA, he also lectures on MBA and degree courses.

His students’ in Singapore and Malaysia has won Malaysian, Singapore and world prize-winners. Mr. Chow also acts as a mentor for OBU projects, to date he has successfully guided ALL his projects’ students in achieving the B.Sc in Applied Accountancy.

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David Wong

Educational Qualification

David is a Certified Public Accountant and is also a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). He holds membership in The Institute of Internal Auditors, Fraud Examiner including The Singapore Institute of Director.

Professional Experience

David is presently an Assistant Vice President, Group Internal Audit in a major public listed company and has experience of more than 18 years in Audit, Taxation and Accountancy.

Lecturing Experience

David specializes in teaching taxation subjects and has more than 8 years lecturing experience in taxation for ACCA, CAT and AAT.David has a track record of achieving high pass rate for his students and had students who won book prize.

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Educational Qualification

Edgar graduated with Honours in Economics from the National University of Singapore. While working, he completed the Diploma of Banking and Finance and passed all his ACCA subjects on his first attempt. He achieved B.Sc. (Honours – First Class) in Applied Accounting under ACCA/Oxford Brookes University Degree Partnership.

Professional Experience

Edgar held various positions in banking, insurance and property sectors; and managed projects and business units over several legal jurisdictions for more than 19 years. Through his accounting practice, he is providing consultancy services to small and medium enterprises.

Lecturing Experience

Upon graduation from National University of Singapore, Edgar specialised in teaching economics at diploma level for several years while pursuing his career in banking. He is now involved in various subjects under ACCA, CAT, ATTS and degree programmes with various reputable institutions. Edgar's core expertises include financial and management accounting, and taxation. To encourage diversity in reading and critical thinking, he writes for several blogs with http://www.accountingwithedgar.blogspot.com/ as part of his multi-dimensional teaching approach.

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Educational Qualification

Ms Edith Quek is a graduate in Business Administration from National University of Singapore and also has a Master of Business Administration from University of Strathclyde, UK. In addition, she also obtained a Diploma for Teachers and Trainers with Distinction from the University of Cambridge.

Lecturing Experience

Edith has more than 23 years of teaching experience in Accounting, Management and Marketing with various institutions.

Besides teaching experience, Edith also has extensive working experience in the areas of administration, marketing and accounting in the education industry. She has a strong passion for teaching, she strives not only to impart knowledge to her students but also to be a mentor to help them maximize their potentials.

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Educational Qualification

Eric graduated with a Bachelor of Accountancy (Honors) from the Nanyang Technological University and is a Certified Public Accountant with the ICPAS.

Professional Experience

Eric has more than 13 years of experience in public accounting with a Big 4 international accounting firm. During this period, Eric has accumulated extensive experience in accounting advisory, capital restructuring, and audit of multinationals and local public listed and private companies in various industries. Eric has also been selected to participate in the global development program with its Global Office in New York for two years, working extensively with other professionals specialized in reputation and risk related areas such as risk management, regulatory, ethics, independence, personnel and infrastructure security and claims management matters.  Upon his return, in addition to managing audit engagements, Eric is actively involved in the internal quality control reviews and inspection process.  Eric has also performed forensic file reviews for Singapore, Malaysia and China offices on several audit engagements, assisting the respective offices and their legal counsels in developing defense strategies.

Lecturing Experience

Eric has many years of experience in conducting in-house seminars on accounting, audit and risk management topics. Eric has been voted as best trainer in 2007 and has been invited to conduct in-house seminar in Xiamen for the China office. Eric has also conducted numerous external seminars on specific financial reporting standards and also changes and updates to the financial reporting standards to the public, and also to members of the Singapore branch of CPA Australia, and the ICPAS. From January 2009, Eric will be lecturing part-time in the Nanyang Business School of the Nanyang Technological University and the Singapore Accountancy Academy of the ICPAS.

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Educational Qualification

Mdm Gan is a Certified Public Accountant with the Institute of Certified Public Accountant of Singapore.

Professional Experience

Mdm Gan has held various positions in banking and investment management companies.

Lecturing Experience

Mdm Gan has been involved in lecturing Accounting and Management courses with the Academy from 1989 to 1996.

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Educational Qualification

Mr Goh is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants UK and is in public practice. He is also a Fellow Certified Public Accountant of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore. Mr Goh graduated from the ACCA examinations achieving top place for the “Advanced Accounting Practice” (a double paper) and “Tax and Tax Management”.

Professional Experience

Mr Goh is a sole practitioner in his own accounting firm for the past 18 years. He has more than 26 years of experience in auditing, fraud investigation, taxation, corporate secretarial services and financial planning.

Lecturing Experience

Mr Goh is one of the pioneer lecturers with the training division of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore (ICPAS). He was the Chairman of the Student's Section Committee during his studentship and also served as a committee member of the ACCA (Singapore Branch). He has taught numerous subjects for institutions such as the Singapore Institute of Management, Singapore Association of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators; and the ICPAS.

Programmes taught include ACCA, CAT, Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance, Diploma in Management Studies (SIM), Graduate Diploma in Financial Management (SIM), Certificate and Diploma in Banking (Institute of Banking and Finance), Criminal Law (Singapore Police Force), British degree units and Australian degree units.

He was an adjunct senior fellow with the National University of Singapore for more than 10 years. He has also been the examiner and moderator for various degree programmes. He has been an invited lecturer to the ACCA (Malaysia Division) for ACCA revision courses and has been lecturing on the ACCA programme since 1985. Many of his past students are currently public accountants as well as lecturers in the ACCA, degree and professional programmes.

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Herry Husodo    B.Ec. (Cum Laude) in Accounting, ACCA, CPA Singapore

Educational Qualification

Herry graduated with a Bachelor of Economics (Cum Laude) in Accounting from Widya Mandala Catholic University Indonesia. Thereafter, he completed all of his ACCA examination papers in one attempt, was four times ACCA prize winner, and became Gold Medallist (1st Placing) upon graduation under ICPAS/ACCA Joint Examination Scheme. He is currently a member of The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (UK) and Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore.

Professional Experience

Herry has been working for 14 years in commercial private sector, publicly listed and non-listed companies of different size (small-medium enterprise to multinational corporation) from various industries (banking, manufacturing, wholesale, consumer retail, and medical device) in Indonesia, Hong Kong, and Singapore, gaining him vast and valuable professional working experience, including assignment for an IPO project in Hong Kong. At present, he is working as Group Financial Controller with a regional group of companies in medical device industry, exposing him to cross-border finance, accounting, and taxation issues. He is also handling some IT-related works in his present company.

Lecturing Experience

During his undergraduate study, due to his sterling academic performance, Herry was offered to teach his juniors as an assistant lecturer in Elementary Accounting and Financial Accounting subjects for a period of 2 years. Upon his graduation, he became a part-time lecturer in his alma mater for approximately 1 year, teaching the same subjects. During this lecturing course, he found his passion in teaching, and enjoyed motivating and communicating with students. He then left his teaching career to pursue professional career in commercial sector. However, he has been keeping his aspiration to teach, and upon finishing his ACCA study, he applied for the post of part-time lecturer with SAA-GE to teach subjects in CAT programme.

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Educational Qualification

Mr Ho studied law at 3 British universities and the Inns of Court School of Law, London. He graduated with 2 Master’s degrees in Law, from Cambridge and London Universities respectively. He is also a Barrister-at-Law of the Middle Temple, London, and an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore.

Professional Experience

Upon graduation, he joined the Singapore Government's Legal Service. He was a Deputy Public Prosecutor & State Counsel at the Attorney-General’s Chambers Singapore, an Assistant Director of Legal Aid and an Assistant Registrar of Land Titles with Ministry of Law Singapore. He had also practised as a lawyer in private practice and had appeared in all the main law courts of Singapore in both civil and criminal cases. Presently, he is the  Legal Counsel at Health Sciences Authority, a statutory board of the Ministry of Health.

Lecturing Experience

He has taught at many institutions of higher learning, including the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Institute of Management, Singapore Polytechnic, etc and had also conducted seminars on legal topics for the public. In his 2nd batch of ACCA students at SAA-GE, he produced the top student in Singapore (91 marks) in the December 2007 exams for Corporate & Business Law. He believes that students should learn the laws not merely to pass examinations (although that is important of course!)  but also for the sake of their own professional and personal lives.

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Ian Lim    FCCA, CFP

Educational Qualification

Ian is a Fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (UK), and a Certified Financial Planner.

Professional Experience

Ian began his career in auditing with a medium size professional firm where he gained valuable professional and commercial experience even before completing the ACCA.

Ian's flair for teaching sparked in 1999 when he joined one of the college conferred ACCA Premier Status in Malaysia as a lecturer to teach accounting, financial management and management accounting subjects. His commitment and dedication towards teaching enabled him to gain popularity amongst students who undeniably rate him as one of their favourites! Ian was appointed as the Head of Professional Studies to manage the operations of the ACCA programme. This strengthened his profile further as he had to cope with several challenges to ensure the co-ordination and growth of the programme successfully.

Lecturing Experience

Ian specialises in financial management and management accounting subjects for both CAT & ACCA programmes. He is currently teaching Papers F5, F9, P5 for ACCA and T7, T10 for CAT. He understands students’ needs well and his exposure to the education industry has led to him to embark upon teaching opportunities in countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, Vietnam, Brunei and Africa. Besides, Ian also conducted ACCA exam techniques workshop and CPD workshop in Brunei.

Ian's simple techniques of teaching and organized way in explanation have enabled students to grasp the most difficult aspects of financial management and management accounting theory without any cumbersome. His high level of tolerance, patience, diligence and hard work has enabled him to sustain in the teaching industry for the past 10 years and turnover every threat into an opportunity.

In the ACCA December 2007 examination, Ian has produced 1st Placing Subject Achiever Award for F9 and P5 in Singapore.

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Educational Qualification

Jacqueline Kuah holds a first degree in English Language and Literature and has a master degree in Education specializing in English Language from the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University.

Professional Experience

Before joining the tertiary education sector, Jacqueline was a Product and Sales Manager (Education) responsible for the marketing and sales of English Language Teaching and academic books. She worked closely with well-known international publishers to bring quality books to educators in local institutions.

Lecturing Experience

Jacqueline began her career as a teacher in a secondary school. She has since taught English as a first, second and foreign language in both government and private institutions. She has extensive experience teaching English to local and international students at all levels.

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Educational Qualification

James graduated with a Bachelor of Accountancy from Nanyang Technological University and is a Fellow Certified Public Accountant (FCPA) from Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore (ICPAS) and CPA Australia. He is also a Fellow (Academic) of the Association of International Accountants (AIA) in UK, a Fellow of the American Academy of Financial Management (AAFM) in USA and an Associate Management Accountant (AMA) with The Institute of Certified Management Accountants (ICMA) in Australia. James holds three masters degree: an MBA from the University of Strathclyde, an MBA in Investment and Finance from the University of Hull and a Master in Business Research from the University of Western Australia. He is currently pursuing two doctorate degrees in accounting and finance on a part-time basis. His doctoral research areas cover behavioural finance, behavioural corporate finance, IPO performance and corporate governance.

Professional Experience

James has been the group management accountant with a multinational corporation for several years before becoming a full-time lecturer. He specialises in financial accounting/reporting, cost and management accounting, and financial management. James has been lecturing extensively at several leading educational institutions for more than 15 years and his lecturing exposure ranges from professional diploma to master degree level. He has been and is currently an appointed lecturer/examiner with several reputable universities such as National University of Ireland, Dublin, RMIT, Northeastern University, University of Bedfordshire and Murdoch University.

Lecturing Experience

James is a very committed, exam-oriented and highly approachable lecturer. He has dedicated his life to lecturing and being an educator, his commitment is very obvious when you see him staying back with his students after class for 1-2 hours regularly to answer their queries/problems. He has demonstrated his ability to build up the rapport with the students within a short time frame. Many of his students look upon him for guidance, encouragement and support as a mentor and a friend. With his strong academic background, broad based and in-depth teaching style, James has helped many students to pass the papers that he has taught in one attempt and the pass rates he has achieved have been consistently above the national and global average. In recognition of his achievement, he has been conferred the Best ACCA Passing Rate Award in 2005 and 2008, the Most ACCA Prizewinners Award in 2005, 2006 and again in 2007 by ICPAS. James is the author of the Paper F3 Financial Accounting revision kit.

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Joe Fang    ACCA Aff.

Educational Qualification

Joe is an affiliate of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (UK) and he also holds an Advanced Diploma and Diploma in Commerce.

Professional Experience

Joe joined a multinational corporation as an in-house industrial trainer in 1994 providing safety and protocol training seminars for different levels of employees ranging from managers, engineers, technicians as well as production operators. Such trainings has provided Joe an invaluable experience to understand and react fast to the vast and differing needs of trainees as well as instil an interest in him to embark on a career in education later.

In 1999, he set up of an educational institution in Malaysia which has now grown to be the largest ACCA College in the southern region of Malaysia.

Lecturing Experience

Joe specialized in lecturing financial and corporate reporting papers. His self developed consolidation technique has set a record high of merely 30 minutes or less for his students to complete examination consolidation question.

He also lectures F7(formally 2.5) and P2(formally 3.6) extensively for over 6 years covering countries such as Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Johor Bahru and Singapore. Well versed in IFRS, IAS and FRS as well as Exposure Drafts, he discovered the “extract and comment technique” which suits Asian students, helping them to overcome their language proficiency problem when interpreting and answering theoretical case study questions on Accounting Standards. He drills students using recent past year questions and up to standard exercises showing them in depth insights with very strong emphasis on writing and analytical skills.

Joe has consistently produced high passing rates. In the June 2004 exam, his ACCA P3.6 student won the Subject Achiever Award (1st Placing) in Malaysia.

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John Seow    B Acc FCPA

Educational Qualification

Mr Seow graduated from University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Accountancy and became a FCPA Singapore in 2004.

Professional Experience

Mr Seow with more than thirty years of experience as auditor, financial controller, group accountant in large MNC, Manager, Credit and Marketing Department of a large local bank. He was the Honorary Treasurer of ICPAS, Singapore Red Cross Society, and Singapore Swimming Club. Served as Council member of ICPAS for more than 11 years. Served in various committees such as Practice Monitoring, Financial Statement Review, Membership and etc.

Lecturing Experience

Discovered his ability to teach in 1972 when he first taught POA (at A-level). He taught for seven continuous years before been appointed as lecturer in the Polytechnic. His focus is on Financial Accounting Cost and Management Accounting.

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Educational Qualification

Miss Mehta is a fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore. She also holds a BA (Hon) Degree in Accounting from Middlesex University (UK) and is a graduate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrations. Miss Mehta has recently completed the Advanced Certificate in Training & Assessment (ACTA), a WSQ competency based training programme. She is also a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors (Singapore)

Professional Experience

Miss Mehta has fifteen years of industrial experience handling wide spectrum of Accounting and Finance Functions. She has held various management roles ranging from Senior Financial Analyst, Head of Strategic Innovation & Cost Audit to Assistant Director before embarking to full-time lecturing.

Lecturing Experience

Miss Mehta is a passionate educator with a sheer commitment to students’ development. She has the ability to inculcate practical learning experience skills in designing training and teaching materials Miss Mehta has several years of lecturing experience. She has taught ACCA, CIMA, CAT and LCCI Courses mainly in areas of Accounting, Business Management and Audit. During her tenure as a lecturer, she has taught students from diverse professional backgrounds. Her students ranged from local to international students from China, Vietnam, Myanmar, Indonesia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and India. She has a pleasant disposition coupled with linguistic ability; she is able to create rapport with her students easily.

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Lee Yuet Lai    BAcc, CPA Singapore

Educational Qualification

Yuet Lai graduated with a Bachelor Degree in Accountancy from the National University of Singapore (NUS). She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore.

Professional Experience

Yuet Lai was a tax practitioner with one of the Big 4 international accounting firm. She has more than 10 years of tax experience and had served many notable clients. She was also an in-house tax advisor to a MNC before she embarked on her teaching career.

Lecturing Experience

Throughout her professional career, Yuet Lai had been actively involved in training and conducting seminars for both internal and external clients. She was involved in tax training for the tax and audit professionals whilst she was with the international accounting firm. She spoke in external seminars including Budget and Banking seminars. She is an adjunct lecturer with a Polytechnic teaching Taxation. With her vast experience as a tax practitioner and her experience in the industry, Yuet Lai is able to bring depth to her teaching by sharing her invaluable practical experiences with her students.

Yuet Lai is the author of ACCA Paper F6 Taxation and CAT Paper T9 Preparing Tax Computations – Study Text and Revision Kit, published by SAA-GE.

Yuet Lai has produced the following Singapore placing in the recent exams:
June 2009 – T9 – 1st placing – 2 students; 3rd placing – 2 students
December 2009 – T9 – 1st placing – 1 student; 3rd placing – 1 student
December 2009 – F6 – 3rd placing – 1 student

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Lim Sing Yong    ACCA Aff, PhD(Chemical Engineering), B.Eng (Chemical Engineering), B.Sc. (Hons) in Applied Accounting

Educational Qualification

Dr Lim graduated with First Class Honours in Chemical Engineering from the National University of Singapore and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from University of Cambridge on a fully paid scholarship from Cambridge. Not one to rest on his laurel, he undertook his ACCA studies and passed all the ACCA papers at first attempt. It is a testament to his intellectual prowess that he was prize winner for three papers and was in fact the Singapore top prize winner for P6. In addition, he achieved B.Sc. (Honours - First Class) in Applied Accounting under ACCA / Oxford Brookes University Degree Partnership.

Professional Experience

Dr Lim is currently a practicing chemical engineer working for a MNC Oil Major in Singapore. He had worked and lived in Australia, USA, UK and China in the past ten years. He has worked in key roles on multi-billions projects, helped in the running of petroleum plants, championed millions dollars investment decisions and enjoyed posing questions on FRS and taxation to accountants.

Lecturing Experience

Dr Lim had tutored undergraduates and Master degree level students in Cambridge and helped produced First Class Honours students. Currently, he is an external lecturer at the Nanyang Technological University teaching students hydrocarbon industry processes as well as training engineers and technicians.

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Manek    BCom, MBus (Prof Acc)

Educational Qualification

Mr Manek has a well-rounded academic background. He has a Bachelor of Commerce (major in Accounting), a Master of Business (major in Professional Accounting). In addition he has completed 7 professional qualifications in Accounting, Cost & Management Accounting, Financial Management, Finance & Administration, Internal Auditing, Marketing and Company Law.

Professional Experience

Mr Manek has seven years of experience in public accounting practice. He has trained staff of several well-known companies in Singapore and the region.

Lecturing Experience

Mr Manek has been lecturing in Financial Accounting, Cost Accounting, Management Accounting, Business Finance & related subjects at professional diploma, undergraduate & postgraduate courses for the past ten years. He has lectured at the academy since 1996.

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Educational Qualification

Ms Mildred Tay is a graduate in Education and Training (HRD) from The University of Melbourne and also has a Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Linguistics from SEAMEO Regional Language Centre.  In addition, she also obtained a Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from London Teacher Training College, UK and a Certificate in Teaching IELTS from The TESOL Training Centre.

Lecturing Experience

Mildred specialises in teaching English to international students and local working adults.  She has taught basic conversational English, IELTS and academic English. She has a passion for teaching and is dedicated to help her students realise their potential

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M. Nageb    ICSA, MBA (Strathclyde)

Educational Qualification

Nageb studied in the UK and is a graduate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (this is equivalent to a honours degree).  Nageb also holds a Masters in Business Administration from University of Strathclyde, UK.  His thesis was on Strategic Business Plan of a medium size private institution.

Professional Experience

Nageb started his career in the banking industry assisting the sub-manager in operational and strategic issues.  Later he moved into education.  After a brief period of lecturing Nageb was promoted to Head of Business Studies managing about 30 faculty members and 2000 students.  As Head he introduced many new products that were required by the industry.  He was heavily involved in the running of the department and co-ordinated extensively with top management in implementing strategic directions.

Later Nageb was promoted as Director.  In this strategic position Nageb crafted the direction for the organisation to move forward.  His experience enabled him to introduced new products and improved existing ones to serve the needs of every changing industry.  He worked closely with top management of his business partners to position his organisation as a clear differentiator from competitors.

Nageb's experience extends to international business where he was instrumental in taking his organisation to China, India, Indonesia, Cambodia and Malaysia.  He worked closely with his overseas principals in  appointing agents, granting licensing and engaging in joint ventures.
In summary Nageb has extensive business experience which enables him to develop budding leaders to face the uncertainties of a frantically changing world economy.

Lecturing Experience

Nageb started lecturing since 1976.  In total Nageb has 30 years of lecturing experience.  He now specialises in lecturing ACCA courses, which he has been lecturing for the past 27 years, in F1, Accountant in Business and P3, Business Analysis.

He also lectures at the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM), University of London, B.Sc progrmme since 1991.  Apart from these Nageb lectures at the Masters level.  The university has appointed him to be the examiner and marker.  Nageb lectures Management related disciplines such as Organisational Behaviour and International Business.

Top Positions Achieved by Students

Over the years Nageb has consistently produced  ACCA students who won top prizes since 1977.  This top accolades are both World and Singapore rankings.  Some of his achievements are: 96 & 90 marks for Managing People and Systems; Top student in 1.3 Managing People; Gold & Silver Medallist for the ACCA examinations.

In addition Nageb also develops students who achieve first-class-honours consistently for the University of London examinations.

Others

Nageb is well known for preparing lucid mindmaps which aid students to understand, remember and apply concepts and theories during their examinations.  Nageb's easy style of lecturing and with the injection of his vast business experience in class lectures makes attending his classes a joy and an experience. 

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Educational Qualification

Mr Tan is a Fellow of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore (ICPAS). He is also a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in the United Kingdom (ACCA). Mr Tan holds a Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Birmingham (UK).

Professional Experience

He is an Audit Partner of a Certified Public Accounting firm. Prior to being a partner, he has extensive auditing experience working as an auditor in public accounting firms and a 2-year stint as the internal auditor of a Singapore public listed company. He currently sits in the Board of a Singapore public listed company as an independent director.

Lecturing Experience

He has been actively and regularly giving lectures and seminars in areas of finance and business since 1991. He has been lecturing at the Academy since 1995 and students will benefit from his vast experience in the Public Accounting Practice and his lecturing experience from various reputable institutions.

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Educational Qualification

Mr Woo is a Fellow of The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and a member of the Institute of Data Processing and Management (MIDPM)-UK. He also holds a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Strathclyde, Glasglow, Scotland.

Professional Experience

Mr Woo worked as an auditor in England and on his return continue to be in the profession. He later worked as a Chief Financial Controller and has extensive experience in the engineering, oil and gas, and construction sector. He has worked in the capacity as an Accountant and senior manager in the commercial sector for many years.

Lecturing Experience

Prior to joining the Academy in 1995, Mr Woo taught ACCA, CIMA, ICSA, UOL and other courses at other educational institutions both in Singapore and Malaysia and has been teaching for over 20 years. He specializes in teaching auditing, corporate governance, management and information technology subjects. He also conducts training and seminars in various countries including Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and China.

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Educational Qualification

Mr Chia is a Fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (UK) and a Practicing Member with The Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore. He also holds a Master Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Leicester. He is currently a Vice Professor with Nanjing University of Information, Science and Technology.

Professional Experience

Mr Chia has several years of working experience with Accounting, Corporate Finance and Fraud, Tax, Insolvency and Audit in Singapore. He is currently a Managing Partner with a Public Accounting Firm in Singapore and as a Consultant in Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. He is also a Director of an IT and Business Consultancy Company specialising in accounting system solutions and is the Head of Audit and a Financial Consultant for a government instituition.

Lecturing Experience

Mr Chia has been a guest lecturer for government institutions and professional bodies as well as a lecturer for the Academy lecturing in the ACCA, CAT and the CPE programmes.

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Educational Qualification

Ruth graduated with Second Upper Honours in Mathematics from National University of Singapore. She also holds a Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA) with a good Pass B from the University of Cambridge, ESOL Examinations. She will be pursuing her Masters this year.

Professional Experience

She used to work as a Policy Analyst in the International Department of the Policy Division in Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore. In addition to the training from the rigorous research and analytical work, she has gained much experience in the coordination of international and regional meetings as well as being part of Singapore delegation at these meetings. What’s more, she has significant experience in the work among young people. She loves interacting with people from all cultures and firmly believes the priceless value in lives.

Lecturing Experience

She recently discovered her passion for teaching and is now enjoying her new career. She has since co-conducted an intensive English-bridging course for international students, taught in Conversational and Pronunciation class and General English classes from starter to intermediate levels, as well as Algebra and Advanced Mathematics to Korean students. She has since taught students from China, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Korea. She always makes it a point to make each lesson engaging and relevant to everyday life. Seeing her students improving and gaining the confidence to use the language gives her great joy.

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Educational Qualification

Mr Chew completed his ACCA at the age of 21 in 1987. Since then, he has obtained further professional qualifications as a Chartered Financial Consultant and Chartered Life Underwriter.

Professional Experience

Mr Chew is currently the managing director of a group of companies providing One Stop Insurance Based Integrated Financial Services ranging from accounting, taxation, corporate secretariat services, corporate insurance, family insurance, estate planning, banking and legal services.

Mr Chew has written four books in which two are mainly marketed to students preparing for the professional accountancy examinations. The other two books “Taxation Relevant to Insurance Practitioners” and “Estate Planning Relevant to Financial Advisors” are well received by the insurance industry. He is presently writing a series of books in relation to Financial Advisors.

Lecturing Experience

Mr Chew started lecturing since 1987 specializing in Advanced Accounting, Management Accounting and Singapore Taxation. Since 1991, he focused his attention on Singapore Taxation and has taught more than 10,000 students on tax related topics. He speaks regularly in the region on numerous topics ranging from Taxation, Motivation, Sales Training, Financial Planning and Estate Planning.

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Educational Qualification

Mr Tan has a degree and a postgraduate diploma from the National University of Singapore.

Professional Experience

Mr Tan was a programmer with MINDEF and was also a teacher with the Ministry of Education (MOE) before switching to his current position as a Technical Manager for a Research and Development company that specializes in automation. Mr Tan is in charge of managing their Information Systems.

Lecturing Experience

Mr Tan has been lecturing the ACCA and CAT programmes at the Academy since 1989. He was previously lecturing a Master's programme in computerized accounting information systems and quantitative methods at a private school. He specializes in quantitative methods and information technology.

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Educational Qualification

Peng Kwee graduated from the National University of Singapore.

Professional Experience

Peng Kwee has practised as a lawyer in Singapore for more than 15 years (in civil and criminal law). He is presently also a Commissioner for Oaths. He is the managing consultant of Bird's Consultancy, and a director of EdNoTe Consultancy Pte Ltd. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Peng Kwee was a regular police officer with the Singapore Police Force

Lecturing Experience

Peng Kwee is presently lecturing at the SAA and is involved in the training of investigation officers with the Commercial Affairs Department, Singapore Police Force ("CAD"). He conducts continuing professional education seminars with ICPAS, CAD and other commercial institutions and multi-national corporations (for professionals in the corporate, human resource, engineering and construction fields).

He was recently a speaker (Corporate Governance for Law Enforcers (Asian Context)) at the CAD International Economic Crime Conference 2010 with law enforcement officers from Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore (Singapore Exchange, Monetary Authority of Singapore, Singapore Customs, Corrupt Practice Investigation Bureau and Singapore Police Force) and Thailand.

In the past, he lectured at the Nanyang Business School (Nanyang Technological University), Temasek Polytechnic and the Singapore Police Force. He was also a facilitator at Republic Polytechnic.

His wide experience in conducting training programmes to a wide range of audiences allows him to adopt a refreshing and enlightening, sometimes even entertaining approach to his lectures and seminars.

He is the author of the Corporate and Business Law Study Manual and Revision Kit, published by SAA. Prizewinners from the Corporate and Business Law paper in July 2007 (two Singapore 1st placing), January 2008 (Singapore 1st placing) and July 2008 (Singapore 2nd placing) were students from his classes. Peng Kwee was also one of two lecturers awarded with the best passing rate in 2009.

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Educational Qualification

Veronica has a BBA (Magna Cum Laude) from The City University of New York (Baruch College), USA, and a Masters from Regent College, Vancouver, Canada. She also holds a CELTA (Good Pass B) from the University of Cambridge, ESOL Examinations.

Professional Experience

Prior to pursuing a teaching career, she worked as a Marketing Manager for hotels in Singapore and a property developer in Macau for more than ten years. She has also worked in a managerial position of a non-profit academic institution and served various other charitable organizations overseas.

Lecturing Experience

She is passionate about her teaching and has taught English in Macau, Poland and recently in Singapore. She enjoys interacting with her students and building good relationships with them. Having lived and worked in four countries, she appreciates the importance of effective communication. She believes English learning should be fun and engaging, and aims to make each lesson enjoyable while productive.

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Educational Qualification

Mr Aw holds a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration, Master in Business Administration and Master in Business (Accounting). He is an Associate Member of CPA Australia and Member of the Institute of Certified Management Accountants.

Professional Experience

Mr Aw had over twenty years experience as Chief Financial Officer with several multi-national companies. His responsibilities include financial control, shipping, tax planning and general management.

Lecturing Experience

Mr Aw teaches financial accounting, management accounting, finance and other accounting related subjects at both the Bachelor and Masters programs offered by Curtin University, Wollongong University, University of Wales, University of Western Sydney, Lester University and University of Ottawa. He has also taught the ACCA, AAT, CAT, ABE and UOL programs for several years.

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Educational Qualification

Ai Ling holds a Bachelor Degree from University of Tasmania, Australia and has a Graduate Diploma in E-Commerce Marketing which she achieved a Certificate of Commendation. She has also completed a TESOL course. Currently, Ai Ling is pursuing her MBA (for Financial Managers and Finance Professionals) with Manchester Business School, UK. 

Professional Experience

Prior to lecturing full-time, Ai Ling was working for a multinational corporation where she was involved in international projects, business analysis and market research. She was also required to design training materials and conduct in-house training to subsidiaries both locally as well as overseas.

Lecturing Experience

Ai Ling has been lecturing Finance and Accounting subjects at Diploma and undergraduate levels for the past seven years. Her students come from a varied background, including local working adults as well as international students from China, Korea, Vietnam, Myanmar, Mongolia, to name a few. In addition to lecturing, Ai Ling teaches English as a Second Language to foreigners.

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Educational Qualification

Mr. Yeo graduated with a Bachelor of Accountancy from the National University of Singapore and also passed the American Uniform CPA Examination at one sitting. He is a Fellow Certified Public Accountant of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore.

Professional Experience

Upon graduation, Mr. Yeo joined a Big 4 International Accounting Firm as an Audit Assistant and was accelerated to the position of Audit Manager during his seven years of service with the firm. He was selected to the firm's US Exchange-Visitor Programme and seconded to their US office for 18 months. His stint in the US was fruitful as he had the opportunity to perform audits in large American MNCs and passed the American Uniform CPA Examination at one sitting. During his service with the firm, he had been assigned to various medium and large-size audits of local and MNCs in manufacturing, trading, property, hotel, insurance, construction and investment holdings.

He went on to join the Singapore subsidiary of one of the world's largest business services companies as their Financial Controller. Later he was promoted to the post of General Manger, managing one of their business divisions in Singapore in addition to his financial management responsibilities. He was again promoted to the post of Area Finance Director responsible for the proper financial and administration practices of their businesses in Singapore and various parts of Asia.

Lecturing Experience

Mr. Yeo has many years of experience in conducting in-house audit and finance training programmes. He has lectured and tutored ACCA Audit and Assurance subjects as well as conducted seminars for Continuing Professional Education Programmes at the Singapore Accountancy Academy.

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