James Xu
Chairman of ISCA FSRAP
James has more than 25 years of public accounting experience, including 2 years in New York office.
He has extensive experience in the audit of multinationals and local companies in various industries including Manufacturing, Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT), Real Estate and Construction, Transporation, Consumer Products, Energy and Resources. He has significant experience in international coordination, cross border audits and large group audits.
James graduated from Shanghai International Study University.
He is fellow member of Chartered Accountant of Singapore, fellow member of ACCA, US CPA and CFA Charterholder.
He is the Chairman of the Financial Statements Review Advisory Panel and Deputy Chairman of Audit and Assurance Standards Committee of ISCA.
Kuldip Gill
Assistant Chief Executive
Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA)
Ms Kuldip Gill is the Assistant Chief Executive of the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) and oversees the Accounting and Compliance Group which supports ACRA in developing a progressive and responsive regulatory regime as the regulator of business registration, financial reporting, public accountants and corporate service providers. This includes the oversight of public accountants and public accounting entities, financial reporting by companies, as well as setting the strategic direction for ACRA’s enforcement efforts over business entities and company directors.
Kuldip leads ACRA’s involvement in the International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators (IFIAR), of which ACRA is a member of the IFIAR Board, Global Audit Quality Working Group and Technology Task Force. She also serves as the Chair of the Human Resources and Governance Committee of the IFIAR Board.
Kuldip has more than 30 years’ experience in public accounting in various countries in the region including Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore, with extensive experience in the audits of multinational and local companies in a wide spectrum of industries. Prior to joining ACRA, she was a partner in one of the Big-4 firms in Singapore and was responsible for some of the quality aspects of the network firm.
Kuldip is a member of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants.
Yvonne Chiu
Audit Partner, Audit Quality Leader
KPMG Singapore
Yvonne is an audit partner with KPMG Singapore and has over 25 years of experience. She has extensive experience in the audits of global financial institutions as well as listed corporations.
She holds the critical role as KPMG Singapore’s Audit Quality Leader to drive and monitor audit quality. Member of the KPMG Singapore’s Audit Quality Committee, and Chairperson of KPMG Singapore’s Audit Practice Committee.
Yvonne has extensive knowledge in the conversion from a number of accounting standards to International Financial Reporting Standards. She is the Deputy Chairperson of the Financial Statements Review Committee of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants. She is also a member of the ISCA’s Auditing and Assurance Standards Committee.
Yvonne is a Chartered Accountant of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (winner of the Northcott Prize) and a practising member of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA). She also holds a First Class Honours degree from the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore.
Yong Zen Yun
Audit Partner, Accounting Technical Leader
PWC Singapore
Zen Yun is an audit partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and has extensive experience in auditing a broad range of Technology, Entertainment and Media companies. As the Accounting Technical Leader of PwC Singapore, Zen Yun leads a team of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) specialists in Singapore. She is an expert in the audit of internal controls over financial reporting under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and has extensive experience in advising US public and emerging companies on complex accounting and reporting matters surrounding the application of IFRS and SEC reporting rules.
Being active within the accounting profession, she is currently serving on the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA) Financial Statements Review Advisory Panel in Singapore and speaks frequently at seminars organised by the various accounting professional bodies. Zen Yun is also a practising member of the ISCA and Fellow of CPA Australia.
Poh Chin Beng
Audit Partner
RSM Singapore
Chin Beng has more than 20 years of audit and assurance experience. Throughout his career, he has served a diverse portfolio of clients, including SGX listed groups, MNCs, growth enterprises and the public sector. In addition to his extensive auditing background, Chin Beng also possesses 4 years of commercial experience. He worked as a regional internal auditor with a global pharmaceutical MNC, which is listed in both Switzerland and the USA, covering the Asia Pacific region. He also served as a regional financial controller in a Nasdaq listed technology group.
Yeow Hui Cheng
Assurance Partner, and Deputy Professional Practice Director
EY Singapore
Hui Cheng is an Assurance Partner and Deputy Professional Practice Director at EY. She has more than 24 years of professional audit experience, serving Singapore and US public listed companies with a focus on Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sector. Experienced with both US GAAP and IFRS and the US SEC rules and SGX listing rules, she has assisted many companies in tapping capital markets through equity and debts offering in Singapore and the US. Hui Cheng is also the Digital Audit Leader at EY responsible for leading the transformation of the Digital Audit.
Hui Cheng is a practicing member of ISCA and currently the Chairperson of ISCA Auditing and Assurance Standards Committee and a member of ISCA Financial Statements Review Committee.
Goh Chyan Pit
Managing Director
Capital Markets
DBS Bank, Singapore
Chyan Pit is a Managing Director within DBS Capital Markets Department. He first joined DBS in 1995. During his more than 25 years of corporate finance and investment banking experience with the Bank, he was responsible for the successful completion of numerous corporate finance and capital market transactions for regional and multinational companies, real estate investment trusts and business trusts. These transactions include different types of equity fund raising exercises such as initial public offerings ('IPOs), rights issues and private placements. Chyan Pit played an instrumental role in many of the landmark transactions in Singapore, including the IPOs of GHY Culture & Media, Sasseur REIT, Hutchison Port Holdings Trust, IHH Healthcare, Global Logistic Properties and CapitaMalls Asia.
Chyan Pit has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Microbiology and a Master of Business Administration degree from the National University of Singapore. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst from the CFA Institute in USA.
Tan Wee Khim
Technical Director, Financial Reporting and Information Department
Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA)
Ms Tan is the Technical Director of ACRA's Financial Reporting and Information Department.
The department sets the strategic direction in promoting high quality financial reporting and filing of financial statements by companies incorporated in Singapore. It administers the Financial Reporting Surveillance Programme which reviews financial statements for compliance with the prescribed accounting standards in Singapore.
Ms Tan is a member of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants.
Joo Kwang Choo, Vincent
Finance Director
TADA Mobility
Vincent Choo is Finance Director at a Series C company that specializes in ride-hailing and offers sales and services related to electric two and three-wheelers.
He brings 25+ years of experience in financial reporting and analysis, strategy and planning, risk management, capital allocation and funding, and M&As. Commencing his professional journey with Deloitte, he progressed to assume senior roles at IBM, IMS Health, Elsevier and Procurri Corporation. His international exposure includes living and working in Japan during the pivotal Y2K transition and an impactful 2.5 years tenure in China from 2010 to 2012.
Vincent is a Fellow Chartered Accountant of Singapore and a Chartered Financial Analyst. He is also a member of ISCA CFO Committee.