Our Faculty of Expert Instructors
Our Faculty of Expert Instructors
Deloitte instructors are involved in a number of our IFRS events in Calgary.
Grant Thornton LLP instructors are involved in a number of IASeminars events across Canada.
Instructors from Praxity firms around the USA are involved in a number of IASeminars events.
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) teaches a number of courses for IASeminars in several countries around the world.
Bill Kemp is a senior instructor and consultant specializing in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and the comparison of IFRS with UK, US and Canadian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). In the recent past, he has delivered public and in-house training courses around the world to a diverse audience from industries including financial services, retail, real estate, oil & gas, telecoms, and IT. He is a UK chartered accountant, and was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and at Oxford University. An experienced educator, he was formerly Managing Director of a major London financial training company. Bill’s work also includes training and consulting on financial statement analysis and business valuation, and he teaches on the International Accounting MSc program of the London School of Economics.]
Lizelle Botes is an independent consultant and freelance actuary, specializing in pensions and employee benefits. Through her work, she offers valuations, employee benefit accounting and consulting on pension-related issues. Until recently Lizelle was employed by Umicore NV, a Belgian listed company, as Benefits Manager for Belgium & Northern Europe. Before joining Umicore, Lizelle was a manager in the Insurance & Benefits Actuarial Services Team at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Belgium. She is a member of the Royal Belgian Actuarial Association (ARAB), and also of the Institute of Actuaries (United Kingdom) and the Actuarial Society of South Africa. Lizelle has broad experience in delivering seminars on actuarial issues and accounting standards relative to employee benefits. In her position at Umicore, Lizelle was responsible for managing matters such as the company's pension plans, disability and death cover, medical plans and stock option plans, and she was also involved in the related accounting issues. Her experience whilst with PwC included actuarial valuations for clients, assisting clients with IFRS conversion projects (first-time adoption), audit and review of actuarial valuations and employee benefit accounting, consulting on pension-related issues, and due diligence projects relative to employee benefits (pensions, early retirement, jubilee premiums, medical cost, disability covers, etc.) in the context of a merger or an acquisition.
Claire Dean is an instructor and consultant specializing in IFRS, UK GAAP and finance training. After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant Claire moved into training, delivering exam based courses for various financial qualifications and provided IFRS training to Ernst & Young's qualified staff. Claire then joined Ernst & Young’s Financial Reporting Advisory team in London as a Senior Manager. In this role she provided technical advice in all aspects of UK GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) to clients of E&Y, including working on IFRS conversions. Aside from being an experienced IFRS instructor, Claire also delivers financial training to the Analysts at many of the large investment banks across the world, runs finance courses for non financial managers and teaches the professional chartered accountancy examinations. A member of the ICAEW herself, Claire has a 1st class Honors degree in Accounting and Finance.
Farah De Rouck is an expert on International Financial Reporting Standards. Since 2005, she has been with Suez-Tractebel in Belgium, where she advises on IFRS implications for a wide range of transactions. GDF-Suez is a major international industrial and services Group which develops and manages electricity and gas projects around the world. Before joining GDF-Suez, Farah worked in the Technical Department of Deloitte in Belgium, where she managed IFRS and US GAAP implementation projects for several entities. Her experience with US GAAP technical issues comes through her work as a public accountant with KPMG LLP in the United States and also her involvement with 'Big Four' US GAAP and SEC engagements in Europe. She is a US Certified Public Accountant and a regular instructor at seminars and courses.
David Ekabouma is a highly accomplished, multilingual public accountant with extensive international Big Four Public Accounting experience and a proven ability to train and develop others. He is an independent qualified accountant in France ("Diplômé d'Expertise Comptable"). He advises US and Canadian clients, coordinating with internal teams to aid in and clarify local General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) to IFRS conversions and distinctions. Until recently, David worked for Deloitte in Paris for more than 8 years, where he successfully coordinated French and U.S. GAAP-to-IFRS conversions and associated financial audits for leading multinational corporations such as GDF SUEZ, MADAGASCAR OIL, FRANCE TELECOM, CFAO (Group PPR). David is also a part-time lecturer at a French university in Orleans, and he regularly conducted technical training courses for both Deloitte staff and clients. David works in both English and French.
Bob Hawken is an international instructor and consultant specializing in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and US / UK / Canadian GAAP. A training professional with considerable experience of presenting in the continuing professional education market, Bob also worked for many years preparing candidates for professional qualifications - including those offered by professional bodies such as the ACCA, ICAEW, ICAS, CIMA and AAT. Bob originally qualified as a UK Chartered Accountant in the audit division of Arthur Andersen, where he worked on clients in many different industries including services, manufacturing, distribution and publishing. He then moved into the financial training sector, working for a total of some 12 years for one of the major UK accountancy training organizations, where he was ultimately promoted to Managing Director. While retaining these management responsibilities, Bob continued to develop and deliver training to many clients. He later chose to pursue his career as an independent consultant in this area.
Karen Kalishek is an international instructor and consultant specializing in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP). She has delivered training courses around the world including in the USA, Europe, Russia, Central Asia, the Caucuses, the Balkans, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Karen has also assisted several national governments in the reform of their accounting systems and in the implementation of international standards and best practices. As well as teaching for IASeminars and others, Karen also has written technical accounting material for publication. She is a US Certified Public Accountant (C.P.A.), a Certified Management Accountant (C.M.A.) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (C.F.E.). Prior to entering the international arena, she taught graduate-level business and finance courses in the USA as well as CPA examination review courses. Karen was formerly Senior Vice-President in a regional bank holding company and also served for eight years on the accounting examination and licensing board of her state.
Jason Lawson is an audit partner at Moss Adams LLP, the 11th largest accounting and consulting firm in the United States and the largest firm headquartered in the West. The majority of Jason's work involves accounting and auditing matters related to international businesses clients, and he is a regular speaker at training courses. In February 2009, Jason completed his role as a member of the AICPA’s Staff Advisory Group (SAG) which was charged with advising the AICPA on how to migrate IFRS in the U.S. Uniform CPA Exam (as part of the SEC’s fourth milestone in its proposed roadmap to adopting IFRS reporting by US issuers). He also writes questions for the CPA exam, and is currently being trained as a reviewer for future CPA exam questions. From 2003 – 2005, Jason was a Professional Accounting Fellow at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Division of Corporation Finance in Washington D.C., where he reviewed registrant filings from both domestic filers (e.g. Form 10-K) and foreign filers (e.g., Form 20-F). During his fellowship at the SEC, Jason also actively participated in the Commission’s evolving policies and procedures resulting from The Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Jo-Ann Lempert specializes in the correct application of accounting principles to complex transactions under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and Canadian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). She has more than twelve years of experience, and was formerly a Manager in the Professional Practice Group of RSM Richter, one of Canada's top accounting and business advisory services firms. Her experience includes advising and conducting training courses on such matters as variable interest entities, business combinations, goodwill, intangible assets, financial instruments, hedging and derivatives. Jo-Ann is currently a contributing author for the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and a Course instructor for the Order of Chartered Accountants of Quebec.
Vivek Mande is the White Nelson Professor of Accounting at California State University, Fullerton where he was named 2005-2006 Professor of the Year for the College of Business and Economics. He was the 2007-2008 PricewaterhouseCoopers Faculty Fellow, and also Director of the University's Center for Corporate Reporting and Governance (CCRG) which organizes SEC financial reporting conferences for Boards of Directors, audit committees, auditors and accountants. Vivek is an experienced consultant on Sarbanes-Oxley section 404 issues, and has provided training to foreign private issuers on US GAAP issues. He was the 2001-2002 Academic Fellow at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Washington DC. As well as research and publication on these topics, Vivek has made presentations on US accounting issues in numerous countries including Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, India, Germany and Singapore. He obtained his Ph.D from the Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA.
Domingo Marchese is the Senior Partner of a large regional Auditing & Consulting firm in Tucuman, Argentina, related in Argentina with Deloitte. He is also a consultant on IFRS issues with the Deloitte LATCO group (Latin America, excluding Mexico, Brazil and Chile). From 2001 - 2007, Domingo was a member of the IFRIC (International Financial Reporting Interpretation Committee) of the IASB, and he was also a member of its predecessor body the SIC (Standing Interpretation Committee). He is currently a member of the CENCYA - the Accountancy & Auditing Standards Commission of the Argentine Federation of Economic Sciences Professional Councils. He is also a Professor at the University of Tucuman in Argentina, and Professor in Post-graduates courses and Masters in many Universities in Argentina, author of several books and numerous papers on Accounting, and a regular lecturer at conferences about IFRS for professionals in Latin America and about other accountancy and auditing issues in Argentina.
Alan Mayo is a highly experienced instructor in the field of international financial reporting. He teaches seminars around the world on subjects including International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS). Alan was formerly a founding member of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Client Training business in London, which delivered UK and International GAAP courses to a wide range of multinational clients. Alan also managed a team within PricewaterhouseCoopers UK that provided training and change management support to the UK public sector as it transitioned from cash to accruals based accounting, working with organizations such as the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Ministry of Defence. An independent training consultant since 2001, Alan has been an associate instructor with IASeminars since 2004. His recent public-sector consultancy work has focused on developing the financial management skills of UK government agencies, and he has delivered training courses for various UK local authorities, government bodies and public agencies as they transition from their current UK-based accruals standards to IFRS or IPSAS-based accounting standards. Alan is a UK chartered accountant with over 20 years experience as an auditor and consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in both London and Paris.
Andrew Naude is a founding Director of Moore Stephens Corporate Finance in South Africa, a member firm of Moore Stephens International. He is a specialist IFRS advisor to Moore Stephens’ audit practice as well as assisting numerous South African and multinational companies with IFRS-related assignments. Andrew’s areas of expertise include acting as independent expert in mining-related transactions, valuations of mining firms and related mineral resources, capital raisings, restructurings and business combinations. Andrew has also advised on the practical implementation, interpretation, accounting and disclosures for numerous IFRS standards, and regularly runs in-house workshops for companies on IFRS-related issues. Since 2008, Andrew has advised three UK AIM listed mining firms in obtaining secondary listings on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Africa’s largest financial exchange. Before co-founding Moore Stephens Corporate Finance in South Africa, Andrew was with KPMG for 8 years, where he worked on a number of IFRS, UK and US GAAP advisory assignments. Andrew also has transaction experience working in a niche corporate advisory environment. Andrew is a member of the South African Institute of Charted Accountants and is a registered IFRS specialist with the JSE Limited (Johannesburg Stock Exchange).
Juan M. Rivera is a professor of accounting and a Faculty Fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is a Certified Public Accountant in the USA and also a Certified Public Accountant in Mexico, and his areas of expertise are in Managerial and International Accounting. His academic degrees include a B.A. in Accounting from Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Accountancy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As an academician, in 1989 his paper “The Internationalization of Accounting Standards: Past Problems and Current Prospects,” earned him the Best Paper Award in the Annual International Manuscript Competition sponsored by the Association of Chartered Accountants in the U.S. He is a past President of the Business Association of Latin American Studies, and a past President of the International Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association. While at Notre Dame, he has been the recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships, one for Panama in 1986 and one for Mexico in 2001.
Danny Tan is an independent instructor and consultant with over 25 years of experience as a qualified accountant in the UK and Malaysia. He specializes in financial reporting issues (IFRS, Malaysia, Singapore & UK GAAP). An experienced instructor, Danny designs and conducts IFRS courses for several professional institutions in Asia. He is very active in the regional accountancy profession - for example he is currently serving as a project manager to the Malaysian Accounting Standard Board for projects on Fair Value Measurement, Reporting Financial Performance, Financial Reporting for SME's, and Government Grants. He is also a Council Member of the Malaysia Division of The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA). He is a Fellow of both CIMA and of The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), and also a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants and of the Malaysian Institute of Taxation. Danny holds an Honors Degree in Economics from Manchester Metropolitan University, an MBA from Heriot-Watt University and a Master in Advance Business Practice from University of South Australia.
Susan Thetford is an international instructor and consultant specialising in the implementation and application of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP) and International Standards on Auditing (ISA). A specialist in bank accounting issues, she has presented conferences, seminars and workshops in the USA, the UK, Mongolia, Central Asia, Ukraine, Africa, and the Balkans. As well as teaching for IASeminars and others, Susan has written IFRS technical material for a major US publisher. She is a US Certified Public Accountant (CPA), and was the Regional Accountant for a Federal banking regulator in the USA for ten years. Prior to that she was a Senior Audit Manager with Deloitte & Touche, working with clients in a variety of industries, including real estate, financial institutions, manufacturing, hospitality, broker/dealers, and oil and gas exploration and development. Susan is a former Vice President and member of the Board of Directors of the Dallas Chapter of the Texas Society of CPAs.
Eamonn Walsh is PwC Professor of Accounting at University College Dublin where he has served as Dean of the Smurfit School of Business and Chairman of the Accounting Department. His primary research, teaching and consulting interests are in the areas of financial analysis, equity valuation and US securities markets. A co-author of three books, his research has been published in Accounting Organisations and Society, the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting and the Journal of Accounting Auditing and Finance. He was the founding editor of European Accounting and served as associate editor of the Journal of Accounting Auditing and Finance. Prior to joining UCD, he held faculty positions at the London School of Economics and New York University. A consultant to a number of leading European, US and Asian corporations, he has also completed assignments with governmental organizations, the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations. He was the inaugural recipient of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Excellence in Education Award and has been a presenter at the World Economic Forum.
Robert W. Walter is a practicing securities attorney with more than 10 years of experience presenting continuing education courses on topics including IFRS, SEC reporting and compliance, XBRL reporting, revenue recognition, business law, and ethics. His legal experience encompasses advising issuers in initial and repeat public offerings, acquisitions, complex reporting issues, and internal investigations, as well as representing buy-side and sell-side participants in going private, management buyout, and other M&A transactions. He is a past member of the Standing Advisory Group to the U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB); the author of five books on business finance, public offerings, and ethics; has authored numerous papers and multimedia presentations for national webcasts and conferences, state CPA conferences, and accounting publications; and is active in counseling Boards of Directors and audit committees on financial reporting, accounting, disclosure, and obligations under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, practices before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the Colorado Bar.
Tariq Zia is a US CPA specializing in Oil & Gas accounting issues under both IFRS & US GAAP. He has worked in both Texas and in Saudi Arabia for several of the 'Big Four' accounting firms over the past 12 years, servicing multinational corporations in the Oil & Gas and other industries. Tariq was for example a designated subject matter expert for the Oil & Gas sector at KPMG in Saudi Arabia, where he worked on multinational clients. Tariq has extensive experience in teaching accounting courses, including at Deloitte & Touche where he was a National Instructor delivering courses to various levels of staff and management on topics such as Introduction to US GAAP & GAAS, and convergence of IFRS with US GAAP. His work experience includes audits of SEC registrants and private clients from the Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, Retail and Service sectors under both US GAAP and IFRS; Sarbanes-Oxley compliance related work; and advisory work in the area of GAAP convergence. Tariq currently serves as senior advisor to a large multinational chemical manufacturer, which involves complex accounting issues and transactions under both US GAAP and IFRS.
Grant Thornton LLP instructors are involved in a number of IASeminars events across Canada.
Instructors from Praxity firms around the USA are involved in a number of IASeminars events.
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) teaches a number of courses for IASeminars in several countries around the world.
Bill Kemp is a senior instructor and consultant specializing in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and the comparison of IFRS with UK, US and Canadian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). In the recent past, he has delivered public and in-house training courses around the world to a diverse audience from industries including financial services, retail, real estate, oil & gas, telecoms, and IT. He is a UK chartered accountant, and was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and at Oxford University. An experienced educator, he was formerly Managing Director of a major London financial training company. Bill’s work also includes training and consulting on financial statement analysis and business valuation, and he teaches on the International Accounting MSc program of the London School of Economics.]
Lizelle Botes is an independent consultant and freelance actuary, specializing in pensions and employee benefits. Through her work, she offers valuations, employee benefit accounting and consulting on pension-related issues. Until recently Lizelle was employed by Umicore NV, a Belgian listed company, as Benefits Manager for Belgium & Northern Europe. Before joining Umicore, Lizelle was a manager in the Insurance & Benefits Actuarial Services Team at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Belgium. She is a member of the Royal Belgian Actuarial Association (ARAB), and also of the Institute of Actuaries (United Kingdom) and the Actuarial Society of South Africa. Lizelle has broad experience in delivering seminars on actuarial issues and accounting standards relative to employee benefits. In her position at Umicore, Lizelle was responsible for managing matters such as the company's pension plans, disability and death cover, medical plans and stock option plans, and she was also involved in the related accounting issues. Her experience whilst with PwC included actuarial valuations for clients, assisting clients with IFRS conversion projects (first-time adoption), audit and review of actuarial valuations and employee benefit accounting, consulting on pension-related issues, and due diligence projects relative to employee benefits (pensions, early retirement, jubilee premiums, medical cost, disability covers, etc.) in the context of a merger or an acquisition.
Claire Dean is an instructor and consultant specializing in IFRS, UK GAAP and finance training. After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant Claire moved into training, delivering exam based courses for various financial qualifications and provided IFRS training to Ernst & Young's qualified staff. Claire then joined Ernst & Young’s Financial Reporting Advisory team in London as a Senior Manager. In this role she provided technical advice in all aspects of UK GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) to clients of E&Y, including working on IFRS conversions. Aside from being an experienced IFRS instructor, Claire also delivers financial training to the Analysts at many of the large investment banks across the world, runs finance courses for non financial managers and teaches the professional chartered accountancy examinations. A member of the ICAEW herself, Claire has a 1st class Honors degree in Accounting and Finance.
Farah De Rouck is an expert on International Financial Reporting Standards. Since 2005, she has been with Suez-Tractebel in Belgium, where she advises on IFRS implications for a wide range of transactions. GDF-Suez is a major international industrial and services Group which develops and manages electricity and gas projects around the world. Before joining GDF-Suez, Farah worked in the Technical Department of Deloitte in Belgium, where she managed IFRS and US GAAP implementation projects for several entities. Her experience with US GAAP technical issues comes through her work as a public accountant with KPMG LLP in the United States and also her involvement with 'Big Four' US GAAP and SEC engagements in Europe. She is a US Certified Public Accountant and a regular instructor at seminars and courses.
David Ekabouma is a highly accomplished, multilingual public accountant with extensive international Big Four Public Accounting experience and a proven ability to train and develop others. He is an independent qualified accountant in France ("Diplômé d'Expertise Comptable"). He advises US and Canadian clients, coordinating with internal teams to aid in and clarify local General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) to IFRS conversions and distinctions. Until recently, David worked for Deloitte in Paris for more than 8 years, where he successfully coordinated French and U.S. GAAP-to-IFRS conversions and associated financial audits for leading multinational corporations such as GDF SUEZ, MADAGASCAR OIL, FRANCE TELECOM, CFAO (Group PPR). David is also a part-time lecturer at a French university in Orleans, and he regularly conducted technical training courses for both Deloitte staff and clients. David works in both English and French.
Bob Hawken is an international instructor and consultant specializing in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and US / UK / Canadian GAAP. A training professional with considerable experience of presenting in the continuing professional education market, Bob also worked for many years preparing candidates for professional qualifications - including those offered by professional bodies such as the ACCA, ICAEW, ICAS, CIMA and AAT. Bob originally qualified as a UK Chartered Accountant in the audit division of Arthur Andersen, where he worked on clients in many different industries including services, manufacturing, distribution and publishing. He then moved into the financial training sector, working for a total of some 12 years for one of the major UK accountancy training organizations, where he was ultimately promoted to Managing Director. While retaining these management responsibilities, Bob continued to develop and deliver training to many clients. He later chose to pursue his career as an independent consultant in this area.
Karen Kalishek is an international instructor and consultant specializing in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP). She has delivered training courses around the world including in the USA, Europe, Russia, Central Asia, the Caucuses, the Balkans, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Karen has also assisted several national governments in the reform of their accounting systems and in the implementation of international standards and best practices. As well as teaching for IASeminars and others, Karen also has written technical accounting material for publication. She is a US Certified Public Accountant (C.P.A.), a Certified Management Accountant (C.M.A.) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (C.F.E.). Prior to entering the international arena, she taught graduate-level business and finance courses in the USA as well as CPA examination review courses. Karen was formerly Senior Vice-President in a regional bank holding company and also served for eight years on the accounting examination and licensing board of her state.
Jason Lawson is an audit partner at Moss Adams LLP, the 11th largest accounting and consulting firm in the United States and the largest firm headquartered in the West. The majority of Jason's work involves accounting and auditing matters related to international businesses clients, and he is a regular speaker at training courses. In February 2009, Jason completed his role as a member of the AICPA’s Staff Advisory Group (SAG) which was charged with advising the AICPA on how to migrate IFRS in the U.S. Uniform CPA Exam (as part of the SEC’s fourth milestone in its proposed roadmap to adopting IFRS reporting by US issuers). He also writes questions for the CPA exam, and is currently being trained as a reviewer for future CPA exam questions. From 2003 – 2005, Jason was a Professional Accounting Fellow at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Division of Corporation Finance in Washington D.C., where he reviewed registrant filings from both domestic filers (e.g. Form 10-K) and foreign filers (e.g., Form 20-F). During his fellowship at the SEC, Jason also actively participated in the Commission’s evolving policies and procedures resulting from The Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Jo-Ann Lempert specializes in the correct application of accounting principles to complex transactions under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and Canadian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). She has more than twelve years of experience, and was formerly a Manager in the Professional Practice Group of RSM Richter, one of Canada's top accounting and business advisory services firms. Her experience includes advising and conducting training courses on such matters as variable interest entities, business combinations, goodwill, intangible assets, financial instruments, hedging and derivatives. Jo-Ann is currently a contributing author for the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and a Course instructor for the Order of Chartered Accountants of Quebec.
Vivek Mande is the White Nelson Professor of Accounting at California State University, Fullerton where he was named 2005-2006 Professor of the Year for the College of Business and Economics. He was the 2007-2008 PricewaterhouseCoopers Faculty Fellow, and also Director of the University's Center for Corporate Reporting and Governance (CCRG) which organizes SEC financial reporting conferences for Boards of Directors, audit committees, auditors and accountants. Vivek is an experienced consultant on Sarbanes-Oxley section 404 issues, and has provided training to foreign private issuers on US GAAP issues. He was the 2001-2002 Academic Fellow at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Washington DC. As well as research and publication on these topics, Vivek has made presentations on US accounting issues in numerous countries including Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, India, Germany and Singapore. He obtained his Ph.D from the Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA.
Domingo Marchese is the Senior Partner of a large regional Auditing & Consulting firm in Tucuman, Argentina, related in Argentina with Deloitte. He is also a consultant on IFRS issues with the Deloitte LATCO group (Latin America, excluding Mexico, Brazil and Chile). From 2001 - 2007, Domingo was a member of the IFRIC (International Financial Reporting Interpretation Committee) of the IASB, and he was also a member of its predecessor body the SIC (Standing Interpretation Committee). He is currently a member of the CENCYA - the Accountancy & Auditing Standards Commission of the Argentine Federation of Economic Sciences Professional Councils. He is also a Professor at the University of Tucuman in Argentina, and Professor in Post-graduates courses and Masters in many Universities in Argentina, author of several books and numerous papers on Accounting, and a regular lecturer at conferences about IFRS for professionals in Latin America and about other accountancy and auditing issues in Argentina.
Alan Mayo is a highly experienced instructor in the field of international financial reporting. He teaches seminars around the world on subjects including International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS). Alan was formerly a founding member of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Client Training business in London, which delivered UK and International GAAP courses to a wide range of multinational clients. Alan also managed a team within PricewaterhouseCoopers UK that provided training and change management support to the UK public sector as it transitioned from cash to accruals based accounting, working with organizations such as the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Ministry of Defence. An independent training consultant since 2001, Alan has been an associate instructor with IASeminars since 2004. His recent public-sector consultancy work has focused on developing the financial management skills of UK government agencies, and he has delivered training courses for various UK local authorities, government bodies and public agencies as they transition from their current UK-based accruals standards to IFRS or IPSAS-based accounting standards. Alan is a UK chartered accountant with over 20 years experience as an auditor and consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in both London and Paris.
Andrew Naude is a founding Director of Moore Stephens Corporate Finance in South Africa, a member firm of Moore Stephens International. He is a specialist IFRS advisor to Moore Stephens’ audit practice as well as assisting numerous South African and multinational companies with IFRS-related assignments. Andrew’s areas of expertise include acting as independent expert in mining-related transactions, valuations of mining firms and related mineral resources, capital raisings, restructurings and business combinations. Andrew has also advised on the practical implementation, interpretation, accounting and disclosures for numerous IFRS standards, and regularly runs in-house workshops for companies on IFRS-related issues. Since 2008, Andrew has advised three UK AIM listed mining firms in obtaining secondary listings on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Africa’s largest financial exchange. Before co-founding Moore Stephens Corporate Finance in South Africa, Andrew was with KPMG for 8 years, where he worked on a number of IFRS, UK and US GAAP advisory assignments. Andrew also has transaction experience working in a niche corporate advisory environment. Andrew is a member of the South African Institute of Charted Accountants and is a registered IFRS specialist with the JSE Limited (Johannesburg Stock Exchange).
Juan M. Rivera is a professor of accounting and a Faculty Fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is a Certified Public Accountant in the USA and also a Certified Public Accountant in Mexico, and his areas of expertise are in Managerial and International Accounting. His academic degrees include a B.A. in Accounting from Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Accountancy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As an academician, in 1989 his paper “The Internationalization of Accounting Standards: Past Problems and Current Prospects,” earned him the Best Paper Award in the Annual International Manuscript Competition sponsored by the Association of Chartered Accountants in the U.S. He is a past President of the Business Association of Latin American Studies, and a past President of the International Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association. While at Notre Dame, he has been the recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships, one for Panama in 1986 and one for Mexico in 2001.
Danny Tan is an independent instructor and consultant with over 25 years of experience as a qualified accountant in the UK and Malaysia. He specializes in financial reporting issues (IFRS, Malaysia, Singapore & UK GAAP). An experienced instructor, Danny designs and conducts IFRS courses for several professional institutions in Asia. He is very active in the regional accountancy profession - for example he is currently serving as a project manager to the Malaysian Accounting Standard Board for projects on Fair Value Measurement, Reporting Financial Performance, Financial Reporting for SME's, and Government Grants. He is also a Council Member of the Malaysia Division of The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA). He is a Fellow of both CIMA and of The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), and also a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants and of the Malaysian Institute of Taxation. Danny holds an Honors Degree in Economics from Manchester Metropolitan University, an MBA from Heriot-Watt University and a Master in Advance Business Practice from University of South Australia.
Susan Thetford is an international instructor and consultant specialising in the implementation and application of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP) and International Standards on Auditing (ISA). A specialist in bank accounting issues, she has presented conferences, seminars and workshops in the USA, the UK, Mongolia, Central Asia, Ukraine, Africa, and the Balkans. As well as teaching for IASeminars and others, Susan has written IFRS technical material for a major US publisher. She is a US Certified Public Accountant (CPA), and was the Regional Accountant for a Federal banking regulator in the USA for ten years. Prior to that she was a Senior Audit Manager with Deloitte & Touche, working with clients in a variety of industries, including real estate, financial institutions, manufacturing, hospitality, broker/dealers, and oil and gas exploration and development. Susan is a former Vice President and member of the Board of Directors of the Dallas Chapter of the Texas Society of CPAs.
Eamonn Walsh is PwC Professor of Accounting at University College Dublin where he has served as Dean of the Smurfit School of Business and Chairman of the Accounting Department. His primary research, teaching and consulting interests are in the areas of financial analysis, equity valuation and US securities markets. A co-author of three books, his research has been published in Accounting Organisations and Society, the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting and the Journal of Accounting Auditing and Finance. He was the founding editor of European Accounting and served as associate editor of the Journal of Accounting Auditing and Finance. Prior to joining UCD, he held faculty positions at the London School of Economics and New York University. A consultant to a number of leading European, US and Asian corporations, he has also completed assignments with governmental organizations, the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations. He was the inaugural recipient of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Excellence in Education Award and has been a presenter at the World Economic Forum.
Robert W. Walter is a practicing securities attorney with more than 10 years of experience presenting continuing education courses on topics including IFRS, SEC reporting and compliance, XBRL reporting, revenue recognition, business law, and ethics. His legal experience encompasses advising issuers in initial and repeat public offerings, acquisitions, complex reporting issues, and internal investigations, as well as representing buy-side and sell-side participants in going private, management buyout, and other M&A transactions. He is a past member of the Standing Advisory Group to the U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB); the author of five books on business finance, public offerings, and ethics; has authored numerous papers and multimedia presentations for national webcasts and conferences, state CPA conferences, and accounting publications; and is active in counseling Boards of Directors and audit committees on financial reporting, accounting, disclosure, and obligations under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, practices before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the Colorado Bar.
Tariq Zia is a US CPA specializing in Oil & Gas accounting issues under both IFRS & US GAAP. He has worked in both Texas and in Saudi Arabia for several of the 'Big Four' accounting firms over the past 12 years, servicing multinational corporations in the Oil & Gas and other industries. Tariq was for example a designated subject matter expert for the Oil & Gas sector at KPMG in Saudi Arabia, where he worked on multinational clients. Tariq has extensive experience in teaching accounting courses, including at Deloitte & Touche where he was a National Instructor delivering courses to various levels of staff and management on topics such as Introduction to US GAAP & GAAS, and convergence of IFRS with US GAAP. His work experience includes audits of SEC registrants and private clients from the Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, Retail and Service sectors under both US GAAP and IFRS; Sarbanes-Oxley compliance related work; and advisory work in the area of GAAP convergence. Tariq currently serves as senior advisor to a large multinational chemical manufacturer, which involves complex accounting issues and transactions under both US GAAP and IFRS.
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