Our Faculty of Expert Instructors
Our Faculty of Expert Instructors
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) teaches a number of courses for IASeminars in the UK, Belgium, China and Switzerland. Click here for more details.
Mimi L. Alciatore is Director of the Accounting Certificate in Energy Graduate Program and an Associate Professor in the Department of Accountancy at the University of Houston. She has taught more than 1600 managers in various executive education courses on such topics as oil and gas accounting, general financial reporting and disclosure, and financial statement analysis. Her research activities center on financial markets, with a focus on accounting and financial reporting issues for the energy industry. Professor Alciatore is the author of "Oil and Gas Accounting" in the Encyclopaedia of Management, and "Asset Valuation: Case Studies from the Oil and Gas Industry" in the Financial Times. She has published in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Literature, Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Petroleum Accounting and Financial Management Journal, and the Oil and Gas Tax Quarterly. She is a member of Financial Executives International, the American Accounting Association, the Women's Energy Network, and is on the editorial boards of the Petroleum Accounting and Financial Management Journal and the Oil, Gas & Energy Quarterly. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining the University of Houston in the fall of 2001, Dr. Alciatore was on the faculty at Louisiana State University, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and at the London Business School in London, England.
Bobbe M. Barnes is an educator and consultant with many years of professional experience in IFRS & US GAAP training around the world. Most recently, she developed the Certified International Professional Accounting certificate program, comprising training courses and examinations. Bobbe has worked in many countries including the USA, Central & Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Russia, Ukraine, China, Indonesia, Mongolia, and South Korea. She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), a Certified Management Accountant (CMA), and a Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM). In addition, she is a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Management Accountants, having served for two years on the standing Committee on Ethics.
Scott Bressler is a senior instructor and consultant specialising in complex applications of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP). In the recent past, he has delivered public and in-house training courses around the world to a diverse audience from industries such as Healthcare, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Telecoms, Pharmaceutical, Transportation, Oil & Gas, Utilities/Power, Mining, Energy, and Automotive. Additionally, Scott has provided tailored training for the public sector and has advised governmental organisations and NGOs in the reform of their accounting and auditing systems to be compatible with U.S. and international standards. Previously, Scott was an audit partner in a CPA firm, a CFO of an international consulting firm and a professor of Accounting and Auditing. Scott’s extensive experience and engaging teaching style have made him a popular instructor with many repeat clients.
Mike Brooks is an international instructor and consultant specialising in oil and gas accounting issues. He has spent most of his career in financial management roles within the international oil and gas industry, including twenty years with the Royal Dutch Shell group, and three years as the finance director of a small independent oil company. He was the inaugural secretary of the UK Oil Industry Accounting Committee, and was deeply involved with the development of UK GAAP for the UK upstream oil sector. He is a qualified accountant and holds an MSc in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics. He regularly writes and lectures on international accounting and business matters.
David Ekabouma is an independent qualified accountant in France ('Diplômé d'Expertise Comptable'). He assists his clients in various projects such as implementing consolidation software and defining accounting principles. Until recently, David worked for Deloitte in Paris for more than 8 years. As a Senior Manager, he was actively involved in IFRS and French GAAP client engagements, including conversion projects to IFRS. David is also a part-time lecturer at a French university in Orleans, and he regularly conducted technical training courses for Deloitte staff. He spent 2 years with Deloitte in Houston, Texas and took part in the conversion to IFRS of the US consolidated financial statements of Suez North America. David works in both English and French.
Steven Henning is a Partner at Marks Paneth & Shron LLP in New York. where he is a financial reporting expert with more than 20 years of experience in public accounting, securities litigation, GAAP consulting, and teaching at the university level. Dr. Henning's work includes: helping foreign private issuers to register and list their shares in the U.S.; counseling Boards of Directors on SEC reporting requirements; assisting with the reconciliation of accounts from international to U.S. accounting standards; conducting accounting training sessions for the personnel of multinational companies headquartered abroad; aiding corporations with revenue recognition issues; performing acquisition due diligence; and consulting on M&A-related accounting issues. Dr. Henning was an accounting professor for several years at the University of Colorado and at Southern Methodist University. Throughout his academic career, he received numerous teaching awards and also served for a year as an Academic Fellow in the Office of the Chief Accountant at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Dr. Henning is currently a member of the NASDAQ Listing Qualifications Panel, and he also serves on the SEC Regulations Committee which acts as the primary liaison between the accounting profession and the SEC on technical matters relating to SEC rules and regulations. In addition, he has consulted with the SEC on auditor oversight issues. He has presented continuing education courses for organizations including Goldman Sachs and the United States Department of Justice.
Karen Kalishek is an international instructor and consultant specialising 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.
Bill Kemp is an international instructor and consultant specialising in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and the comparison with UK, US and Canadian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). 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 where he designed and delivered programmes for investment and other banks, fund managers, lawyers and insurance groups. Bill’s work includes developing and presenting training courses on IFRS and GAAP differences, and also on other financial topics such as analysis and business valuation. He also teaches for professional examinations set by the CFA Institute (formerly AIMR) and the Securities Institute, and contributes to the MSc programme of the London School of Economics.
Cheryl Linthicum brings the benefit of her recent experience with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to clients of IASeminars. Until July 2006, Cheryl served as an Academic Fellow in the Office of the Chief Accountant at the SEC, where her work was primarily concerned with IFRS staff training and the evaluation of IFRS-based statements filed with the SEC. The latter included a review of Form 20-F reconciliations from IFRS to US GAAP. Cheryl is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Texas at San Antonio where she teaches financial and international accounting at the undergraduate, executive MBA and PhD levels. Her research interests have been focused on international accounting issues, including the application of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and the value relevance of 20-F reconciliations. She has won several prestigious teaching awards, including the President’s Distinguished Award for Teaching Excellence. Cheryl earned a PhD from Oklahoma State University and a MBA from Pittsburg State University. She holds both CPA and CMA designations.
Vivek Mande is a 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 is 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, which is a member of the Deloitte Network. 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, author of several books and numerous papers on Accounting, and a regular lecturer at conferences for accountancy and auditing professionals.
Alan Mayo is an expert instructor in IFRS and UK GAAP. Now an independent training consultant, Alan was formerly a founding member of PricewaterhouseCoopers Client Training business, where he headed up the financial training team. This team delivered UK and International GAAP courses to a range of multinational clients. The scale of such training projects ranged from bespoke workshops for senior corporate management to general staff training. Alan is a UK chartered accountant with a total of 19 years professional experience at PwC. He is a regular speaker at IFRS and UK GAAP seminars in Europe.
Ruth Ann McEwen is the Associate Dean, Dean of Accreditation and Administration, and Professor of Accounting for the Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University. She also is a consultant to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), where she has been deeply involved with the FASB's Codification project. Ruth Ann has taught graduate Financial Accounting at the Intermediate and Doctoral levels for more than 20 years. Her articles have been widely published. In 2001-2002, Ruth Ann was involved in drafting questions for the AICPA Uniform CPA examination, and in 1998 she presented a series of papers focusing on current financial reporting and the usefulness of GAAP accounting information to the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board. Ruth Ann is a Certified Public Accountant, and received her Ph.D. in Accounting from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Perry Pahladsingh is a Dutch chartered accountant and business economist, working as an audit professional in the Netherlands (Dalstaete Accountants). Until March 2008, Perry worked for the Technical Department of Deloitte in the fields of Government Auditing and International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS). Whilst at Deloitte, Perry was part of the Global Learning Team, where he developed and delivered various courses for audit professionals. As part of his work on IPSAS, Perry spoke at the 2007 and 2008 World Accounting Summits in Dubai, and he also led a training course for the Ministry of Finance in Vietnam, which was sponsored by the World Bank. Perry has also commented on several Exposure Drafts and Discussion papers issued by the IPSAS Board. He has been a lecturer in the fields of accounting and auditing at several universities, and is also currently an examiner of both the post-graduate controllers' and chartered accountants' courses of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Perry has a post-graduate degree in business economics from Amsterdam University. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Chartered Accountants, and is also a certified trainer.
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. 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. As a professional accountant, he was Chief of Financial Studies and Director of Investment Banking at Banco Atlantico, an affiliate of Banque Nationale de Paris in Mexico City. He also worked in the international finance division of Eli Lilly and Company in the U.S. and was the Financial Director of its Venezuelan affiliate. 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 specialises 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 Honours 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 Technical Director of IASeminars, and an international instructor and consultant specialising in the implementation and application of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and International Standards on Auditing (ISA). An expert 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 was Dean of the Smurfit School of Business from 2001 –2004. Eamonn previously held Accounting and Finance faculty positions at New York University and the London School of Economics, and visiting positions at the University of California (Berkeley, USA) and the University of Wollongong (Australia). His teaching work includes all aspects of accounting and finance to doctoral level; graduate courses in statistics, econometrics, international management, research method and design; executive education at Ashridge, Cass, Strathclyde, Glasgow, NYU, Syracuse; Associates’ programmes for major financial institutions such as RBOS and Barclays Capital; plus conferences and seminars around the world, including the World Economic Forum.
Veronique Weets is a Professor of International Accounting, and a faculty member at two Belgian universities. Véronique is also associated with the IFRS Technical Desk of Deloittes in Belgium, where she is involved in client work on matters such as the transition to IFRS and the subsequent application of IFRS to listed companies. As a member of the Deloitte IFRS Technical Desk, Veronique assists auditors and clients with the practical application of IFRS, and is therefore actively involved in providing realistic implementation solutions to client requirements. She is also involved in client and staff training. Consequently, Véronique’s presentations always have a strong theoretical basis that is carried through to the real-world application issues that are relevant to the business environments of the delegates. In her academic capacity, she regularly participates in the programs of UAMS, Vlerick and the Solvay Business School. An accomplished and experienced instructor with an interactive style of teaching, Veronique is also author of a long list of technical accounting literature in English, French and Dutch.
Anna Zubets is a CPA and a Manager at Marks Paneth & Shron LLP in New York. She spent eight years with KPMG LLP in the USA and UK, including two years in London as a member of the firm’s International Financial Reporting Group, a center responsible for advising KPMG member firms around the world on the application of IFRS. In that role, Anna responded to technical queries on the application of IFRS from KPMG audit teams worldwide, and she served as the group’s technical lead on several specific accounting topics. She also prepared IFRS training materials and instructed internal training sessions. In her current role at Marks Paneth, Anna is a litigation services consultant, assisting attorneys and others to understand complex accounting and auditing issues. She is also active in the New York State Society of CPAs’ Auditing Standards and Procedures Committee and Financial Accounting Standards Committee.
Mimi L. Alciatore is Director of the Accounting Certificate in Energy Graduate Program and an Associate Professor in the Department of Accountancy at the University of Houston. She has taught more than 1600 managers in various executive education courses on such topics as oil and gas accounting, general financial reporting and disclosure, and financial statement analysis. Her research activities center on financial markets, with a focus on accounting and financial reporting issues for the energy industry. Professor Alciatore is the author of "Oil and Gas Accounting" in the Encyclopaedia of Management, and "Asset Valuation: Case Studies from the Oil and Gas Industry" in the Financial Times. She has published in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Literature, Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Petroleum Accounting and Financial Management Journal, and the Oil and Gas Tax Quarterly. She is a member of Financial Executives International, the American Accounting Association, the Women's Energy Network, and is on the editorial boards of the Petroleum Accounting and Financial Management Journal and the Oil, Gas & Energy Quarterly. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining the University of Houston in the fall of 2001, Dr. Alciatore was on the faculty at Louisiana State University, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and at the London Business School in London, England.
Bobbe M. Barnes is an educator and consultant with many years of professional experience in IFRS & US GAAP training around the world. Most recently, she developed the Certified International Professional Accounting certificate program, comprising training courses and examinations. Bobbe has worked in many countries including the USA, Central & Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Russia, Ukraine, China, Indonesia, Mongolia, and South Korea. She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), a Certified Management Accountant (CMA), and a Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM). In addition, she is a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Management Accountants, having served for two years on the standing Committee on Ethics.
Scott Bressler is a senior instructor and consultant specialising in complex applications of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP). In the recent past, he has delivered public and in-house training courses around the world to a diverse audience from industries such as Healthcare, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Telecoms, Pharmaceutical, Transportation, Oil & Gas, Utilities/Power, Mining, Energy, and Automotive. Additionally, Scott has provided tailored training for the public sector and has advised governmental organisations and NGOs in the reform of their accounting and auditing systems to be compatible with U.S. and international standards. Previously, Scott was an audit partner in a CPA firm, a CFO of an international consulting firm and a professor of Accounting and Auditing. Scott’s extensive experience and engaging teaching style have made him a popular instructor with many repeat clients.
Mike Brooks is an international instructor and consultant specialising in oil and gas accounting issues. He has spent most of his career in financial management roles within the international oil and gas industry, including twenty years with the Royal Dutch Shell group, and three years as the finance director of a small independent oil company. He was the inaugural secretary of the UK Oil Industry Accounting Committee, and was deeply involved with the development of UK GAAP for the UK upstream oil sector. He is a qualified accountant and holds an MSc in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics. He regularly writes and lectures on international accounting and business matters.
David Ekabouma is an independent qualified accountant in France ('Diplômé d'Expertise Comptable'). He assists his clients in various projects such as implementing consolidation software and defining accounting principles. Until recently, David worked for Deloitte in Paris for more than 8 years. As a Senior Manager, he was actively involved in IFRS and French GAAP client engagements, including conversion projects to IFRS. David is also a part-time lecturer at a French university in Orleans, and he regularly conducted technical training courses for Deloitte staff. He spent 2 years with Deloitte in Houston, Texas and took part in the conversion to IFRS of the US consolidated financial statements of Suez North America. David works in both English and French.
Steven Henning is a Partner at Marks Paneth & Shron LLP in New York. where he is a financial reporting expert with more than 20 years of experience in public accounting, securities litigation, GAAP consulting, and teaching at the university level. Dr. Henning's work includes: helping foreign private issuers to register and list their shares in the U.S.; counseling Boards of Directors on SEC reporting requirements; assisting with the reconciliation of accounts from international to U.S. accounting standards; conducting accounting training sessions for the personnel of multinational companies headquartered abroad; aiding corporations with revenue recognition issues; performing acquisition due diligence; and consulting on M&A-related accounting issues. Dr. Henning was an accounting professor for several years at the University of Colorado and at Southern Methodist University. Throughout his academic career, he received numerous teaching awards and also served for a year as an Academic Fellow in the Office of the Chief Accountant at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Dr. Henning is currently a member of the NASDAQ Listing Qualifications Panel, and he also serves on the SEC Regulations Committee which acts as the primary liaison between the accounting profession and the SEC on technical matters relating to SEC rules and regulations. In addition, he has consulted with the SEC on auditor oversight issues. He has presented continuing education courses for organizations including Goldman Sachs and the United States Department of Justice.
Karen Kalishek is an international instructor and consultant specialising 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.
Bill Kemp is an international instructor and consultant specialising in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and the comparison with UK, US and Canadian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). 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 where he designed and delivered programmes for investment and other banks, fund managers, lawyers and insurance groups. Bill’s work includes developing and presenting training courses on IFRS and GAAP differences, and also on other financial topics such as analysis and business valuation. He also teaches for professional examinations set by the CFA Institute (formerly AIMR) and the Securities Institute, and contributes to the MSc programme of the London School of Economics.
Cheryl Linthicum brings the benefit of her recent experience with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to clients of IASeminars. Until July 2006, Cheryl served as an Academic Fellow in the Office of the Chief Accountant at the SEC, where her work was primarily concerned with IFRS staff training and the evaluation of IFRS-based statements filed with the SEC. The latter included a review of Form 20-F reconciliations from IFRS to US GAAP. Cheryl is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Texas at San Antonio where she teaches financial and international accounting at the undergraduate, executive MBA and PhD levels. Her research interests have been focused on international accounting issues, including the application of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and the value relevance of 20-F reconciliations. She has won several prestigious teaching awards, including the President’s Distinguished Award for Teaching Excellence. Cheryl earned a PhD from Oklahoma State University and a MBA from Pittsburg State University. She holds both CPA and CMA designations.
Vivek Mande is a 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 is 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, which is a member of the Deloitte Network. 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, author of several books and numerous papers on Accounting, and a regular lecturer at conferences for accountancy and auditing professionals.
Alan Mayo is an expert instructor in IFRS and UK GAAP. Now an independent training consultant, Alan was formerly a founding member of PricewaterhouseCoopers Client Training business, where he headed up the financial training team. This team delivered UK and International GAAP courses to a range of multinational clients. The scale of such training projects ranged from bespoke workshops for senior corporate management to general staff training. Alan is a UK chartered accountant with a total of 19 years professional experience at PwC. He is a regular speaker at IFRS and UK GAAP seminars in Europe.
Ruth Ann McEwen is the Associate Dean, Dean of Accreditation and Administration, and Professor of Accounting for the Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University. She also is a consultant to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), where she has been deeply involved with the FASB's Codification project. Ruth Ann has taught graduate Financial Accounting at the Intermediate and Doctoral levels for more than 20 years. Her articles have been widely published. In 2001-2002, Ruth Ann was involved in drafting questions for the AICPA Uniform CPA examination, and in 1998 she presented a series of papers focusing on current financial reporting and the usefulness of GAAP accounting information to the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board. Ruth Ann is a Certified Public Accountant, and received her Ph.D. in Accounting from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Perry Pahladsingh is a Dutch chartered accountant and business economist, working as an audit professional in the Netherlands (Dalstaete Accountants). Until March 2008, Perry worked for the Technical Department of Deloitte in the fields of Government Auditing and International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS). Whilst at Deloitte, Perry was part of the Global Learning Team, where he developed and delivered various courses for audit professionals. As part of his work on IPSAS, Perry spoke at the 2007 and 2008 World Accounting Summits in Dubai, and he also led a training course for the Ministry of Finance in Vietnam, which was sponsored by the World Bank. Perry has also commented on several Exposure Drafts and Discussion papers issued by the IPSAS Board. He has been a lecturer in the fields of accounting and auditing at several universities, and is also currently an examiner of both the post-graduate controllers' and chartered accountants' courses of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Perry has a post-graduate degree in business economics from Amsterdam University. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Chartered Accountants, and is also a certified trainer.
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. 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. As a professional accountant, he was Chief of Financial Studies and Director of Investment Banking at Banco Atlantico, an affiliate of Banque Nationale de Paris in Mexico City. He also worked in the international finance division of Eli Lilly and Company in the U.S. and was the Financial Director of its Venezuelan affiliate. 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 specialises 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 Honours 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 Technical Director of IASeminars, and an international instructor and consultant specialising in the implementation and application of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and International Standards on Auditing (ISA). An expert 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 was Dean of the Smurfit School of Business from 2001 –2004. Eamonn previously held Accounting and Finance faculty positions at New York University and the London School of Economics, and visiting positions at the University of California (Berkeley, USA) and the University of Wollongong (Australia). His teaching work includes all aspects of accounting and finance to doctoral level; graduate courses in statistics, econometrics, international management, research method and design; executive education at Ashridge, Cass, Strathclyde, Glasgow, NYU, Syracuse; Associates’ programmes for major financial institutions such as RBOS and Barclays Capital; plus conferences and seminars around the world, including the World Economic Forum.
Veronique Weets is a Professor of International Accounting, and a faculty member at two Belgian universities. Véronique is also associated with the IFRS Technical Desk of Deloittes in Belgium, where she is involved in client work on matters such as the transition to IFRS and the subsequent application of IFRS to listed companies. As a member of the Deloitte IFRS Technical Desk, Veronique assists auditors and clients with the practical application of IFRS, and is therefore actively involved in providing realistic implementation solutions to client requirements. She is also involved in client and staff training. Consequently, Véronique’s presentations always have a strong theoretical basis that is carried through to the real-world application issues that are relevant to the business environments of the delegates. In her academic capacity, she regularly participates in the programs of UAMS, Vlerick and the Solvay Business School. An accomplished and experienced instructor with an interactive style of teaching, Veronique is also author of a long list of technical accounting literature in English, French and Dutch.
Anna Zubets is a CPA and a Manager at Marks Paneth & Shron LLP in New York. She spent eight years with KPMG LLP in the USA and UK, including two years in London as a member of the firm’s International Financial Reporting Group, a center responsible for advising KPMG member firms around the world on the application of IFRS. In that role, Anna responded to technical queries on the application of IFRS from KPMG audit teams worldwide, and she served as the group’s technical lead on several specific accounting topics. She also prepared IFRS training materials and instructed internal training sessions. In her current role at Marks Paneth, Anna is a litigation services consultant, assisting attorneys and others to understand complex accounting and auditing issues. She is also active in the New York State Society of CPAs’ Auditing Standards and Procedures Committee and Financial Accounting Standards Committee.
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