E096: Auditors Today - How Much To Check And Who To Check With
Programme Objective
As professionals, we all face the same problem in dealing with our clients' matter: How much to check?
Recent events have made it clear that professionals face more challenges in the future. Not only does the economic crisis show the weaknesses existing in reporting culture, recent court cases have the courts making it clear that past practices may no longer be enough.
Programme Outline
This programme will highlight the problems of the present system of checks as well as explore the possible changes we need to make to meet the challenges of the future. It will also highlight how sometimes it is not the system that is at fault but more the culture we have grown up with.
Intended For
Audit Professionals as well as clients who need to learn how to assist their professional advisers to ensure that the engagements are conducted to their benefit.
Competency Mapping
Category 2
Programme Facilitator(s)
Tan Peng Kwee
Advocate & Solicitor Singapore
Peng Kwee graduated from the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore in 1989. He is also a member of the Singapore Academy of Law and a Family Court mediator with Eagles Mediation and Counseling Center (EMCC). Peng Kwee has been a practising Advocate and Solicitor in Singapore for more than 10 years and presently has his own firm, Peng Kwee & Company. He has had diverse exposure in various aspects of legal work, both civil and criminal. He is presently also the Managing Consultant at Bird’s Consultancy.
He has conducted in-house seminars with multi-national corporations as well as continuing professional education seminars with the Singapore Accountancy Academy (SAA), the Singapore Human Resource Institute (SHRI), and the Commercial Affairs Department. Peng Kwee has had much experience in conducting training programmes to a wide range of audiences, from students with no work experience to professionals from the industries. He conducts seminars in English, Mandarin and Hokkien. His wide experience ensures that participants are given a good understanding of the fundamentals of law without sacrificing the practical aspects of law in the light of the environment the law operates in. Participants have always found his approach to various topics both refreshing and enlightening, sometimes even entertaining.