1) Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales; 2) Member of the Malaysian of Institute Accountants; 3) Member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore; and 4) Master of Business Administration Degree from United Business Institutes, a Brussels-based business school.
Working Experience
He is a London-trained Chartered Accountant. After a year of post-qualifying experience there in 1974, he returned to Kuala Lumpur to work for two years with a "big-four" accounting firm, and after a short-stint with a foreign bank, he started his accounting and consulting practice in 1978 and has been in public practice ever since. He was the Executive Chairman and international liaison partner when his firm was affiliated, and for more than ten years until 1992, had travelled extensively to major cities in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia to attend annual partners' conferences where he participated in seminars, workshops and technical discussion. His firm was the external auditors and tax agents for two major banks, several other financial institutions and insurance companies and other substantial private enterprises. He had also personally undertaken large receivership and liquidation assignments, and conducted, together with foreign partners, markets and financial feasibility studies for several organizations involved in the hospitality business and tourism industry. He had served as a director of two public companies listed on Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad. He also was the founder/promoter and first Honorary Secretary of a national manufacturing association and also a past Honorary Secretary-General of a national tourism-related association.
