Public Practice Programme

Siew Eng has more than 20 years of professional experience, including more than seven years in the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority of Singapore (ACRA), where she was the Chief Inspector and Director of the Practice Monitoring Department.

Besides overseeing the practice reviews of audits carried out by public accountants in Singapore, she was also involved in ACRA’s regulatory efforts to improve audit quality, monitoring trends and events in both the local and international marketplace, as well as policy-making, such as the setting up of new regulatory framework and/or refinements of existing programmes/initiatives.

She worked for more than 12 years in a Big 4 accounting firm auditing multinational and local companies.

Her industry experience includes construction, property development, hospitality, REITs, software development and sales, semiconductor, shipping building, manufacturing and distribution, and various trading companies. Siew Eng is also involved in the Initial Public Offering (IPO) and auditing of listed entities.

Eric is a consultant to organisations, and serves as an adjunct professor/ associate professor/ faculty and visiting fellow at various universities with close to 30 years of professional experience.  These include Nanyang Business School (Nanyang Technological University), School of Business (Singapore University of Social Sciences), Design and Specialised Businesses (Singapore Institute of Technology), Executive Development (Singapore Management University), School of Business and Governance (Murdoch University) and School of Law (City University of Hong Kong).

Eric previously worked for Ernst Young (EY) in both the Singapore and Australia practices. He was a founding member of EY Global Valuation & Business Modelling (VBM) Network’s Technical Standards Group (TSG), and has served in the Steering Committee and led the EY Asia Pacific VBM TSG from 2012 to 2015. 

Eric is the Founding Chairman of the International Valuation Standards Council (IVSC) Membership and Standards Recognition Board.  The IVSC is the independent global body responsible for setting the International Valuation Standards (IVS) that are used today in more than 100 countries worldwide. At present, Eric is a Director of IVSC Asia Ltd, recently set up in Singapore by IVSC, as its first base outside Europe to drive its advocacy efforts in the adoption of the IVS in Asia.  Eric is also the Founding Chairman of the Institute of Valuers and Appraisers of Singapore (IVAS).  The IVAS (a member of IVSC) is an institute set up to advance the business valuation profession under the auspice of the SAC (which has merged with ACRA).  Eric is a Chartered Accountant (Singapore), Chartered Accountant (Australia and New Zealand), CPA (Australia), Senior Fellow of Finsia and Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).  Eric is a Director of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) and IPOS International Pte Ltd.   He has worked with organisations from various sectors/industries and his clients include government agencies, regulatory agencies, professional bodies, SMEs, GLCs, MNCs, and public listed groups.

Vincent has more than 30 years of audit experience in Singapore and Australia. He and has served public listed companies, multinational and statutory boards in a diversified range of industries. These include airlines, agricultural, financial institutions, insurance and insurance brokering, investment funds, oil & gas, mining, petrochemical, commodity trading, and public transport companies. 

He has also carried out numerous buy-side financial due diligence reviews, accounting investigations, corporate restructures and valuations, and has assisted in numerous public stock and debt issues on the Stock Exchange of Singapore. 

Vincent has also presented various lectures on accounting, auditing, and fraud including updates on the new Financial Reporting Standards, Accounting for Business Combinations, developments in Corporate Governance, and Cash flow management.