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 I 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), 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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Chung Kiah Sing    BSc(Hons), MAcc, MIT

Educational Qualification

Mr. Chung has a Bachelor degree in Science from University of Singapore, CDipAF from ACCA, DipCompTech from NUS, Master degree in Accountancy and Master degree in Information Technology from Charles Sturt University, Australia.

Professional Experience

Mr. Chung brings with him more than 20 years of working experience in a statutory board and sizable private and public listed companies. He worked as a practitioner looking after financial and cost accounting system and integration with other key operational systems over 15 years. He was the Assistant Vice President of a department before he worked as a full-time lecturer.

Lecturing Experience

Mr. Chung has many years of lecturing experience with local institutes. He has over 5 years of full-time teaching in University of London degree programme.

He has taught financial and managerial accounting and information technology subjects in the diploma, bachelor and master degree level. Programmes taught include SIM University, Murdoch University and University of London.

Being committed and patient, he is keen to help many students improve on their academic performance. While teaching full-time in UOL programme, Mr. Chung as a member of the dedicated team, helped produce first-class honours graduates over the years.

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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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Elaine Lee    BBUS, CELTA

Educational Qualification

Elaine graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Studies (Marketing) from Nanyang Technological University. She also holds a Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA) from the University of Cambridge.

Professional Experience

Before embarking on her teaching career, Elaine was working as a marketing professional, specialising in communications and online marketing.

Lecturing Experience

A dynamic and resourceful EFL/ESL trainer, Elaine has been teaching English to international students intending to further their studies or pursue a career in Singapore for the past 6 years. She also has experience in teaching TOEFL, IELTS and Conversational English to Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Mongolian, Cambodian and Burmese students.

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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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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, 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

Mrs Irene Tay graduated with a Master degree of Business Administration from Victoria University of Technology, Australia and a Bachelor of Arts & Social Science degree from the University of Singapore. She is a member of Singapore Human Resource Institute, Singapore Training & Development Association and Chartered Institute of Personnel Management & Development, UK.

Professional Experience

As an Associate Consultant, Irene brings along her 20 years of experience with versatility and tenure in people management. She has facilitated human resources to meet organisations’ vision and mission.

She has contributed to the organizations that she worked with to win the Asian Institute of Management Award for People and Development, Outstanding Newcomer Quality Organisation Award as well as the Singapore Quality Class status.

Lecturing Experience

Irene specializes in teaching the subject of human resource management, as well as organizational theory and business management from the diploma to master level at various institutions, polytechnics and universities.

She has been involved in lectures with local students and foreign students as well as matured adult learners.

The key educational institutions which Irene has been participating are: Singapore Management University, Singapore Human Resource Institute, SIM University, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Nanyang Polytechnic.

Other institutions like University of Leicester, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Northumbria University, Curtin University of Technology. Irene's training and lectures have been conducted in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Australia, Hong Kong and China. She has been invited Guest Speaker in various seminars as well as on radio and television from topics relating to training methodologies to customer service management.

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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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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 was 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.

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Lim Tian Khoon    B.Math (Hons), PhD

Educational Qualification

Dr Lim graduated with PhD in pure mathematics from the University of Western Australia. His research interests lie mainly in the area of algebraic graph theory and he has published papers on the topic at various international journals.

Professional Experience

Dr Lim worked as a financial analyst and later, a fund manager. He is experienced in various aspects of fundamental analysis and equity valuations. He has written research articles and reports on companies under his portfolio as well as on market outlook and industry analysis.

Dr Lim has also provided his views on sector outlook (commodity supply chain sector) through quarterly seminars and talks. He was also invited for interviews in the Bulls & Bear segment (a program run by ChannelNews Asia) to speak on companies under his coverage.

Lecturing Experience

Prior to entering the financial industry, Dr Lim was a full-time lecturer for almost 3yrs at a local polytechnic, teaching engineering mathematics. He was also an expert mentor for the gifted programme at Rosyth Primary School.

While doing his graduate studies in Australia, Tian Khoon was a tutor cum residential adviser at Currie Hall, a residential college of the University of Western Australia. He was also a tutor for first year mathematics students at the University of Newcastle, NSW while doing his honours degree.

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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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Michael Goh    BAcc, MSc (Finance), CPA Singapore

Educational Qualification

Mr. Goh graduated with a Bachelor Degree in Accountancy from Singapore and a Masters of Finance from New York. He is a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore. He has done modular legal studies in banking & civil law matters relating to his expertise and spent some time in legal training in criminal law.

Professional Experience

Mr. Goh is currently the Corporate Development Director of a private investment holding group based in Singapore with operations in trading, manufacturing, real estate developments and investments in Asia. He was the Executive Director of a manufacturing company in Singapore for which he was also the shareholder. He is presently also a business associate of a corporate training and consultancy firm with business activities in South East Asia.

Prior to his current portfolio of business interests and ventures, Mr. Goh was a senior banker for 15 years specializing in Credit and Risk Management. His banking career started in corporate credit & marketing functions before moving to specialize in Credit and Risk Management. He was the Head of Credit Department in world top international banks in charge of all aspects of Credit Risk functions.

Mr. Goh was a member of the management team in both the local Credit Committee and the Regional Management Risk Committee for approving all credit and risk exposures in the Asia Pacific Region. As a senior banker, he was in charge of several countries in South East Asia and Greater China region (China, Hong Kong and Taiwan). He was vested with substantial personal approving authority for all counter-parties’ risks and products in countries under his charge covering a wide spectrum of banking activities such as wholesale & commercial lending, private banking, trade finance, project and structured finance, treasury and derivative products, investment banking and venture equity investments.

Lecturing Experience

Mr. Goh has been teaching and conducting banking & finance training since early 1990s, both for his banks during his employment as well as for many other financial institutions in Asia. Not only does Mr. Goh train financial institutions, he also trains the central bankers that regulate financial institutions. A highly rated trainer, Mr. Goh uses many practical examples from the Asia banking environment in his classes. He teaches Banking & Finance courses for the UOL programme.

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Mohd 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. Alan Ng has a Master degree in Finance from the National University of Ireland. He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants UK and a Certified Public Accountant of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore (ICPAS).

Professional Experience

Mr. Alan Ng brings with him more than ten years of experience in the accounting industry. His passion for teaching has turned him into a very dedicated full time accounting lecturer because his motor is: “Learning is opportunities and Teaching is rewarding career.”

Lecturing Experience

Mr. Alan Ng has more than ten years of lecturing experience.

He has taught various accounting and finance subjects in the diploma and degree level. Programmes taught include the ICPAS Diploma in Professional Accounting, LCCI Diploma in Accounting, SIM University Degree and the University of London Degree.

Being committed and patient, it is not surprising that he has helped many weak students improve on their grades. It should be highlighted that Mr Alan Ng has been teaching the UOL programme since 1999 and that he has produced many first class honours students over the years.

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Educational Qualification

Mr Ong graduated with a BBA (Hons) from NUS in 2003 and also completed the CFA program in 2005. In 2006, Mr Ong went to The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, graduating with an MBA with Highest Distinction (Palmer Scholar).

Professional Experience

Mr Ong’s professional experience is in banking and finance, particularly in the area of real estate financing and acquisitions. He previously worked for the Singapore government as well as in the banking industry with a leading commercial bank and a global US investment bank. Besides banking and finance, Mr Ong’s professional interests also include business strategy for SMEs and family businesses. He is the award winner of the US-based Family Business Magazine with his article on the role of non-family executives in family businesses.

Lecturing Experience

Mr Ong previously taught financial accounting as a teaching associate at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Currently, he teaches Principles of Banking and Finance at Singapore Accountancy Academy to undergraduates reading bachelor degrees from University of London. He is also engaged by SIM University and Amity Business School to lecture corporate finance and managerial finance.

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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

Pooveneswary NP graduated with a BSc (Maths and Computer Science) and a MBA, from NUS.

Lecturing Experience

Pooveneswary NP has had extensive experience teaching Mathematics and Statistics at the diploma and degree level.  She teaches Engineering Mathematics at Singapore Polytechnic.

Her experience includes teaching Mathematics, Computing Mathematics, Operational Research and Statistics to undergraduates reading for degrees from University of Bradford, University of Wales and University of London. Her experience also involves teaching PhD students (doing their thesis in social science) how to analyse data using software packages like SPSS

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Educational Qualification

Mr Quek graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Studies (Marketing) from Nanyang Technological University. He also holds a Master of Science (Real Estate) from the National University of Singapore

Professional Experience

Mr Quek brings with him over 11 years of industry experience and partakes in the rollout and marketing of various programmes and initiatives for his company.

Lecturing Experience

As an in-house trainer, Mr Quek has conducted many sessions of trainings to his peers. He specializes in teaching principles of marketing for the UOL programme.

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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

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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Tay Eng Huat     BAcc, MScFM, CPA Singapore

Educational Qualification

Mr Tay graduated from the Faculty of Accountancy & Business of the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore in 1993. He is a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore since 1997. He is also a member of the Singapore Association of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (SAICSA). Mr Tay obtained his Master of Science in Financial Management from University of London.

Professional Experience

Mr Tay is currently the managing director of corporate advisory firm, NFG Capital Partners. He is a financier to many local and overseas companies in fundraising and advice them corporate financial engineering. He has been a banker in the financial industry for more than 13 years and has diverse exposure in various aspects of banking and corporate finance works.

Lecturing Experience

Mr Tay is a lecturer with the Singapore Association of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators (SAICSA) in their degree certification professional programme, lecturing on the subject of Corporate Financial Management and Business Accounting. He also teaches the subject of Capital Market at a local University.

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Educational Qualification

Mr Teo graduated with a Master degree in Economics from the National University of Singapore. He is also a member of the Economics Society of Singapore and his research interest lies on the feasibility of monetary integration for East Asia countries.

Professional Experience

Mr Teo professional experience is in post banking mergers consolidations. Interestingly, he has also taken part in the research of our country’s gifted education programme at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University and is now deeply entrenched in the educational industry.

Lecturing Experience

Mr Teo is the examiner for two universities’ subjects. He has also conducted economics seminars to professionals outside the financial industry.

He has taught economics subjects in the diploma and degree level. Programmes taught include the ICPAS Diploma in Professional Accounting, SIM University Diploma in Management Studies, Curtin University of Technology, University of Queensland and the University of London Degrees.

Mr Teo has been teaching the UOL programme since 2002. Many of his UOL students have since graduated with a first class honours degree.

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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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