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2003 articles

• From Russia with flair
• Innessa Mnatsakanova ACCA tells Colette Steckel about her challening career as an accountant in Moscow and the progress Russia has made since the financial crisis of 1998
• Martha Stewart: the rise and fall of America's domestic goddess
• Once a national treasure, America's lifestyle guru, Martha Stewart, is now facing potential ruin since the SEC charged her with insider trading. Abigail Rayner reports
• ACCA accountants pour their talents into Africa
• Margaret Mwanakatwe and Anna Chifungula are two accomplished Zambian accountants who have risen through the ranks in Zambia's private and public sector. They tell Colette Steckel about their successful careers in accounting and business
• The only way is up
• Robin Ching FCCA of Hang Lung Properties, and past President of ACCA Hong Kong, tells Colette Steckel why he hopes the real estate market in Hong Kong has reached the very bottom and is on its way back up
• A licence to entertain
• Chris McEvilly FCCA tells Colette Steckel why he quit England to start a new life in Canada and how he got to know The Simpsons
• Becoming a part of IT history
• Ronald Qiu FCCA, senior financial application expert at China's largest management software company UFSoft, tells Colette Steckel how he used his accounting background to kick-start a career in the IT industry
• The beauty of accounting
• Loan Le, director of the Loan Le Auditing-Consulting and Training Company in Ho Chi Minh City, and one of the first ACCA members in Vietnam, tells Colette Steckel why she always wanted to become a successful businesswoman

2004 articles

• A visionary CEO
• Martin Turner FCCA joined the National Health Service in 1969 as a finance trainee. Today he is chief executive of one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK. He tells Colette Steckel about his career and the problems he faces as CEO
• In the winner's circle
• Bernard Dulal-Whiteway FCCA, CEO of Caribbean conglomerate Neal & Massy, tells Colette Steckel about his involvement in the future of Trinidad & Tobago and his quest for success in business and on the race-track
• The right man for the job
• Nasser al Mugheiry FCCA relishes his work as managing director of an accounting firm in Oman. Accounting, he says, is in his blood
• Reach and reputation
• Allen Blewitt, ACCA's CEO, talks to John Prosser
• Sherron Watkins: life after Enron
• After the Enron scandal, Sherron Watkins' life would never be the same again. Lesley Meall talked to Watkins on a recent UK visit and learned that the whistleblower-in-chief still hankers for a future corporate role. But what?
• Respect, reputation, renewal
• John Prosser talks to ACCA's new CEO, Allen Blewitt
• The professional
• After 25 years in practice, Ng Boon Yew FCCA put his plans of early retirement on hold to take up the financial reins of Singapore Technologies, a leading technology-based multi-national headquartered in Singapore. He tells Colette Steckel why
• The media dynamo
• Zbigniew Bak is one of the first ACCA graduates in Poland. Now a Deputy President of Central & Eastern Europe's biggest media group, he tells Colette Steckel what it's like to do business in Poland
• Turning a dream into reality
• Peter Mageza began life in the township of Soweto. Today he has a staff of 1,200 and runs the biggest asset-based finance operation in South Africa. He tells Colette Steckel of his struggle to turn his dream of becoming an accountant into reality
• Asian air travel soars to new heights
• Colette Steckel travels to Kuala Lumpur to meet ACCA member Tony Fernandes, the bringer of a no-frills airline to Asia
• Tough at the top
• Ann Horan FCCA was the first female managing director of a Bank of Ireland group company. Now heading up the bank's asset finance business, she tells Colette Steckel what it's like being a woman at the front line
• China's new beginning
• David Wu FCCA, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Beijing, tells Colette Steckel about a new dawn in China, where business is booming and accountants are in demand

2005 articles

• Man on a mission
• Karl George, managing director of Birmingham practice Andersons KBS, tells Colette Steckel about his ambitions for the Midlands and why his community work strikes a chord
• An Englishman in New York
• Robert Butler joined Reuters' graduate training programme in finance when he graduated. Thirteen years later, he is Vice President, Finance, in the New York office. Colette Steckel went to meet him
• Coming of age
• Patrick KW Chan FCCA, CFO of Hang Seng Bank in Hong Kong, tells Colette Steckel why his career in the banking industry adds spice to his working life
• Where did the money go?
• Michelle Perry reports on increasing demands from the public to know how their charitable donations are spent, and how fundraisers are responding
• Journey of discovery
• Andrew Leyden FCCA has spent most of his career travelling the world. Now based in Australia as CFO of global wine company, Beringer Blass Wine Estates, he talks to Colette Steckel about the appreciation of premium New World wine
• One woman's work
• Azza Raslan has struggled to establish her career in Saudi Arabia. Now a chief internal auditor and financial adviser to the CEO of a prestigious hospital in Jeddah, she tells Colette Steckel that her determination and resolve have been rewarded
• A sporting challenge
• Jenny Gu loves challenges, which is perhaps just as well. As director of finance for Nike Taiwan, her workload is set to increase further in 2005. Colette Steckel reports
• The finance protector
• Andrew Penn FCCA, CEO of AXA Australia & New Zealand, talks to Colette Steckel about the financial services industry in Australia and how AXA transformed itself from no-hoper to potential market leader
• Lights, cameras... auditors?
• Steve Taylor FCCA, senior Vice President, Finance, at Paramount Pictures, tells Colette Steckel about his long career with the studio and why he's not into the glitz of Hollywood

2006 articles

• Alpha-females
• While there is much talk of cracks in the glass ceiling, research seems to suggest that progress in women reaching senior business positions has been slow. Richard Willsher writes
• Speeding up
• Alexander Vrublevsky, CFO of Ukraine’s International Mortgage Bank (IMB), witnesses the wind of change in Kyiv. He talks to Colette Steckel
• Pride and politics
• Datuk Nur Jazlan, MP for Pulai, Johor in Malaysia, sees his accounting qualification and his experience in finance as a way of singling him out in his political career. He talks to Colette Steckel
• A champion of rights
• Colette Steckel talks to Amy Yung, recognised as ACCA’s achievement award winner in the UK’s recent Accountancy Age awards
• Trail-blazer
• Anand Goolsarran is one of the most respected and admired auditors among the Supreme Audit Institutions in the developing world. He tells Colette Steckel about his lengthy career
• The James phenomenon
• John Prosser talks to the UK’s most high profile corporate doctor about his remarkable career
• At the cutting edge of the diamond
• Poised to launch its new professional syllabus, and on the eve of its Diamond Sponsorship of the World Congress of Accountants, John Prosser talks to ACCA’s CEO, Allen Blewitt
• The skill sharers
• ACCA members Mohamed Taha Hammod Al-Hashimi from Yemen, and Abbas Shojaei from Iran, are respected and influential financial professionals in the Middle East. They talk to Colette Steckel
• CFO in the fast lane
• Fang Qian works for one of the most glamorous brands in the world. He tells Colette Steckel why joining Ferrari Maserati Cars International in Shanghai was an experience he did not want to miss

2007 articles

• The perfect host
• Krzysztof Wieslaw, Rezidor Hotel Group director of finance for south of Europe and Poland, oversees the financial performance of 16 properties including flagship hotel, the Radisson SAS Warsaw. Colette Steckel checks in
• Brown’s swansong
• How will history judge Gordon Brown’s stewardship of the tax system, and what final changes might he want to announce? Mike Truman writes
• Ambition fulfilled
• Vlad Klenikov, Vice President, Investment Banking Division, Goldman Sachs, talks to Colette Steckel about how his accounting experiences in Moscow led him to a career on Wall Street
• A woman of the world
• When Lenovo, China’s major PC vendor, acquired IBM’s Personal Computing Division, it was catapulted on to the global stage. Colette Steckel asks Cathy Du, Lenovo’s chief accountant, if she enjoyed the ride
• IFAC at 30: the world's accountant
• Fermin del Valle, partner in Deloitte Argentina and President of the International Federation of Accountants, is in town. And John Prosser is hoping it won't rain
• Finding the badger's stripe
• Ruth Badger, runner-up in the BBC business programme, The Apprentice, is interviewed by Sharon Garfinkel
• The hot European
• Stefan Stern talks to Lynda Gratton
• The Caatalyst
• When the entrepreneurial bug bit Charlie Watson, he ventured into the profit recovery business. John Prosser meets...

2008 articles

• First among equals
• Fatma Al-Kharusi, finance director, Petroleum Development Oman, talks to Colette Steckel about women's rights, Omanisation and social investment
• The ones to watch 2008...
• In celebration of its 10th anniversary, accounting & business profiles 10 talented finance professionals.