Summary

In today's competitive landscape, accountants often face the pressure to showcase favorable financial outcomes. This specially designed webinar is tailored to equip accountants and auditors with practical skills and knowledge in creative accounting techniques.

Learn how to navigate ethical challenges and dilemmas that arise in these situations, ensuring you make informed decisions with integrity.

Objective

This seminar aims to increase the awareness of creative accounting, the symptoms relating to creative accounting and the ethical issues associated with creative accounting.

Format

This session will be run as a Webinar format on Zoom.  

Outline

  • What is creative accounting?
  • How is creative accounting different from fraudulent financial reporting?
  • Why would a professional accountant be involved or be complicit in creative accounting?
  • Creative accounting/fraudulent reporting schemes and their red flags
    • Round tripping
    • Off balance sheet

Case study

  • City Harvest Church
  • Wirecard

ACCA Member & Affiliate CPD Subsidy

ACCA Singapore is currently offering a special subsidy to active members and affiliates so as to help them meet their CPD requirements. This offer is available on selected courses here and on a limited basis. Terms and conditions apply. 

CPD units 

Attendance to this webinar will accord you with 3.5 CPD units (ACRA Category 2). A CPD certificate will be emailed to you within 3 business days after the completion of the webinar.

Speaker

Daniel Chee

Mr Daniel Chee holds an Honours degree in Accountancy from the National University of Singapore and was a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). He has more than 13 years of experience in the accounting profession, having worked for one of the Big 4 accounting firms in Singapore and in the United Kingdom. He also has more than five years of senior management experience with multinational corporations, managing their operations in Singapore and Asia. He was an adjunct associate professor at NUS Business School and then an adjunct professor with the Singapore University of Social Sciences. Mr Chee was a committee member of both the IT Committee and the Examination Committee of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants, and was a Committee member of the Disciplinary Sub-Committee of the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority.