Mr Paul Wan honored by International Accounting Bulletin
Morison KSi has announced that it has rebranded as Morison Global. This rebrand celebrates the association’s worldwide membership base of 150 member firms across more than 75 countries and immediately makes the brand internationally relevant. In 2020 the association released a new visual identity, and the name change is the final piece of the brand…
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Paul Wan, FCA
Accounting fraud takes a new dimension in China
China’s biggest accounting firm Ruihua CPA’s is being investigated by the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) after one of its clients was found to have infested its profits by RMB 12billion ( US$1.74billion)over four years! This is not the first time Ruihua was investigated 3 years ago they were barred from handling any IPO work…
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Paul Wan, FCA
Case Study: Thomas Cook plc, A lesson to be learned
The oldest Travel Agent 178 years collapsed and went into administration in the UK on 23rd September 2019. It was founded in 1841 in Leicestershire by Thomas Cook a cabinet-maker. Prior to the collapse, it’s revenue was £9bn, it had 19 million customers, 22,000 staff in 16 countries. What happened? Thomas Cook which is German-owned…
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Paul Wan, FCA
Singapore GDP Update – September 2019
On 13th August 2019, Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry slashed it’s 2019 GDP forecast to zero to 1% -this is in contrast to the forecast of 1.5% to 2.5%. With the expected continued decline in the economy, Singapore is in a technical recession. In our earlier write up we predicted that the challenges are…
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Singapore Economic Outlook: Mar 2019
Singapore’s GDP Grew by 1.3 in the First Quarter of 2019 compared to 1.9 % growth in the fourth quarter of last year- The decline was not unexpected given the GDP 2018 was 3.2% versus GDP 2017 of 3.7%. China, Malaysia, EU, USA,HK and Taiwan were the main trading partners. The overall trend will continue to be very challenging given all…
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