ISCA’s Response To Singapore Budget 2019

19 February, 2019 -- The Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA) commends the Government on Singapore Budget 2019 delivered in Parliament by Minister for Finance, Mr Heng Swee Keat, on 18 February 2019. ISCA is confident that the initiatives announced will support the Trade Associations...

ICAEW and ISCA launch research report on fintech innovation

The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA) today jointly launched a research report titled “Fintech innovation: perspectives from Singapore and London”. The report consolidated the findings from research undertaken...

Accountancy Students Overcome Financial Hardship and Family Difficulties with Support from ISCA Cares

- The charity arm of the national accountancy body helps accountancy students whose family’s per capita monthly income falls below $625. 12 October, 2018 – Growing up, 18-year-old Zafri Zackery was raised by his retired grandparents, as his parents were out of the picture for most of his life....

Senior Civil Servants Benny Lim, David Chew and Wong Hong Kuan Named Honorary Members of ISCA

28 September 2018 – The national accountancy body Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA) has conferred honorary lifetime memberships to three distinguished government officials – Mr Benny Lim, Chairman of National Parks Board; Mr David Chew, Director of Commercial Affairs Department of...

Singapore Accountancy Awards Introduce New Award Categories - Special Recognition Award and Project Excellence Awards

Euleen Goh, Chairman of SATS Ltd, receives Special Recognition Award Chan Ying Jian, BreadTalk Group CFO, wins Individual Excellence Award Select Group Ltd, Accountant-General’s Department, and State Courts of Singapore win Project Excellence Awards, introduced to recognise finance teams which...

Amid Fourth Industrial Revolution, ISCA Launches Framework and Learning Roadmap to Foster a Future-Ready Accountancy Profession

28 September 2018 – While the financial services industry has been subjected to disruption, only one in three financial practitioners indicated in an online poll that he was proactively taking steps to acquire necessary skills.[1]To prepare finance professionals for the Fourth Industrial Revolution,...

ISCA Launches Publication for Auditors to Identify Cybersecurity Risk in Financial Statement Audits

- First publication in Southeast Asia to aid auditors in assessing cybersecurity risk in financial statement audits  1 June 2018 – The Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA) has launched a publication titled ‘Cybersecurity Risk Considerations in a Financial Statements Audit”...

New Report Aims to Guide Businesses in Shaping an Effective Risk Culture

- “Risk Culture: How to Get it Right” includes contributions by business leaders on practices that have shaped risk culture in their organisation- Report debunks myths that risk culture is a fuzzy concept and is only for large companies 24 May, 2018 – In an environment that is increasingly...