Overview

Key Benefits

Topics include

• Overview of Financial Statements and the Financial Reporting Process.
• Understanding financial statements and notes to accounts.
• Understanding the effect of business strategies on financial statements and key performance indicators.
• Aggressive financial accounting practices and corporate fraud
• Interpreting financial information from different stakeholders’ perspectives such as management, investors and bankers.
• Case studies on the practical application of financial statement analysis for business decision making such as performance evaluation, investment analysis and credit risk analysis.

Who should attend

Programme Information

About the Trainer

Lee Kin Wai
B. Ec (Hons), MBA, PhD, CPA
Asst Professor
Nanyang Business School
Nanyang Technological University

Lee Kin Wai is Assistant Professor of Accounting at Nanyang Business School in Nanyang Technological University. He holds a First Class Honours Degree (with University Medal) in Accounting, MBA (distinction in finance) and Phd degree. He is a member of Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Singapore, Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants and American Accounting Association. Dr. Lee is the Vice-Chairman of the Shell Singapore Employees Union Cooperative Limited,  a member of the Corporate Governance Committee of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore and a member of Singapore Compact for Corporate Social Responsibility.

Prior to joining academia, Dr. Lee had extensive experience in accounting and finance and was the Group Accounting Manager in a publicly listed multinational corporation. Dr. Lee specializes in financial statement analysis, capital market research in accounting, corporate governance and valuation. His research on corporate governance and financial accounting standards has been published in international accounting and finance journals such as Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Accounting Auditing and Finance, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, Singapore Accountant and Accounting and Finance Journal and the business press such as Business Times and Straits Times. He conducts courses at the undergraduate and MBA levels, and in-house seminars for organizations such as Shell, Tyco, Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore, Association of Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and Asia-Pacific Bankers Club. In 2007, he received the Teacher of the Year Award for the MBA programme.