Ewan L.

Agency of the Government with responsibility for the adminisation, organisation, and supervision of elections for government, industrial and Aboriginal organisations, and registered clubs and statutory bodies. Duties: • Deliver and conduct a range of time driven financial & operational internal audits; • Review existing internal controls & processes ensuring compliance whilst identifying any risk/gaps; • Conduct follow up reviews to validate the implementation status of audit recommendations; • Perform a range of strategic, performance, financial and compliance focused Internal Audit;

The Auditor-General is responsible for audits of NSW Government agencies[1] and universities,[2] and also provides certain assurance services for Commonwealth grants and payments to the State under Commonwealth legislation. Duties: • Collect and analyse data to detect deficient controls, duplicated effort, fraud, or non-compliance with laws, regulations, and management policies; • Review data about material assets, net worth, liabilities, capital stock, surplus, income, and expenditures; • Inspect account books and accounting systems for efficiency, effectiveness, and use of accepted accounting procedures to record transactions; • Examine and evaluate financial and information systems, recommending controls to ensure system reliability and data integrity. Key Achievements • Corrected the formula error from client - AGD’s cash flow calculation; • Prepared the management letter for LPAB in preventing their fixed assets overstatement;

Corning Incorporated is a listed American manufacturer of glass, ceramics, and related materials, primarily for industrial and scientific applications. As of 2008 Corning had five major business sectors: Display Technologies, Environmental Technologies, Life Sciences, Telecommunications and Specialty Materials. Duties • Ensure appropriate internal controls are in place in all the entities of Asia-Pacific, including Australia, to meet SOX requirements; • Carry out periodic internal control and compliance testing in all entities of Asia-Pacific; • Stocktake (Inventory Control) and Physical Security Project; • Ensure implementation of corporate policies and procedures; • Support the financial teams in all the entities within Asia-Pacific. Key Achievements • Enhanced the Corning Specialty Materials Incorporated (CSMI) and Corning Life Sciences (CLS) business/finance processes to get the ‘clean’ external audit result for year 2012; • Consulted for the India Plant’s SOX Project, and provided on-site instruction; • Prevented revenue understatement of US$0.4m; • Prepared Fraud Investigation (FCPA) Testing Protocols;

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd is a Chinese multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services company headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong.[4] It is the largest telecommunications equipment maker in the world, having overtaken Ericsson in 2012. Duties • Prepare financial statements for Huawei service BU; • Manage the month end and year end process; • In accordance with company accounting policy & accounting process flow, draw up & execute revenue recognition calculation and operation guide; • Review contract clauses, provide professional judgement and correspondence accounting opinion on revenue recognition; • Responsible for providing various forms of revenue accounting data to subsidiaries. Key Achievements • Successfully established procedures on service revenue recognition to all five overseas shared services centres; • Provided lectures on system operation and the method of revenue recognition; • Provided expert advice to optimize the operating system of service revenue recognition process, saving 2 hours each month on the closing process; • Reported a system error in Project Accounting, and a system update was subsequently applied to prevent further errors.

Deloitte is one of the Big Four professional services firms along with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Ernst & Young, and KPMG. Duties • Provide enterprise risk management consulting, responsible for project planning and implementation of programmes; • Lead the team to complete the building of internal control processes and the preparation of internal control reports; • According to SOX404 guidelines, provide customers with internal control risk consulting; • According to the relevant guidelines to complete the C SOX internal control assessments; • Responsible for reviewing the work of the subordinates. Key Achievements • Formulated the risk management processes, policies and risk early warning indicators; • Carried out the process carding for the holding company and its subsidiaries; • Supported the wider team with Excel queries and to make them more efficient.

Deloitte is one of the Big Four professional services firms along with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Ernst & Young, and KPMG. Duties • Prepare and review audit reports and financial statements of public listed companies; • Being accountant-in-charge, lead team members to provide audit service for small to medium sized clients; • Provide regular audit review service for clients’ foreign subsidiaries; • Ensuring that accruals and prepayments are processed correctly; • Responsible principally for audit related engagements but required, where necessary, to undertake engagements of an accounting nature. Key Achievements • Provided an effective recommendation to the reconciliation of the client’s revenue and cost by virtue of my own professional judgments; • Provided an updated and more efficient formula in audit testing procedure (PIT); • Improved processes to speed delivery and save the company time on menial activities and regularly requested work to keep busy and help ease the workload on others.

This course has provided good foundation for students to gain knowledge of various skills in financing, investment and programming. My final dissertation was focus on valuation of VC securities.

This course provided student knowledge in investment management, risk assessment, accounting and auditing and other financial areas of development.