Top Singapore professional to deliver keynote address at CMA National Management Accounting Conferen

CMA National Management Accounting Conference will be inaugurated on 11 July at 6 p.m. at Kings Court Cinnamon Lakeside. The technical sessions will be held on 12 and 13 July. 

The CMA Excellence in Integrated Reporting Awards for the 10 best companies, the overall winner, 1st and second runner up will be presented Awards that evening by Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishard Bathiudeen. He will address the participants on the topic ‘Total Cost Management to gain competitive advantage in Industry’.

The keynote address will be delivered by Prof. Ho Yew Kee – Head, Department of Accounting –National University of Singapore. He will speak on the topic ‘Total Cost Management in Development of the Economy – Singapore Experience’.

His address will cover Singapore then and now and the long journey they have traversed. Although people want immediate results they should realise it is a long term journey with a complete change in attitudes, enforcing discipline to build a disciplined society with an ethical code and good governance, the important role of foreign direct investments and conditions required to attract investors, skill development, quality education, providing places to young students who are eligible to enter university,  role of professional accounting bodies, achieving productivity, skill development and the government skill development fund for those employed, housing development started by Singapore Housing Development Corporation with funds from EPF  to provide housing for all, the use of new technology and IT and ITES for economic development, infrastructure development such as roads, highways, ports, power generation, apartment complexes, making state institutions profitable and the role of Temasak, the management, removing political interference in state institutions, the secret of SIA success and meritocracy, converting the mainly rural agricultural society to an industrial and high tech society.

Professor Ho Yew Kee is the Head, Department of Accounting of the NUS Business School, the National University of Singapore. He is an accountant by training having obtained his Bachelor (First Class) and Master of Economics from Monash University, Australia. He also obtained his Master in Industrial Administration and PhD. from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA. He has taught at Monash University, CMU, and currently is professor of accounting at the NUS Business School. Professionally, he is a Fellow CPA Australia and a Chartered Accountant Singapore. In addition, he holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification.

Professor Ho teaches Accounting and Financial Management in the Executive MBA (EMBA). At the university, he was previously the Master, King Edward VII Hall of Residence and had served as the Vice- Dean (Finance and Administration), Chairman, Executive Education and Director of MBA of the NUS Business School. He has won numerous teaching and research awards and has published extensively in journals, books, newspapers and conference proceedings in accounting, finance, law, human resource management and industrial organisations.

Professor Ho is on the Council of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA) and is the Chairman of the Membership Committee. He is also a director of a listed insurance company in the Singapore Stock Exchange. Professor Ho is an executive trainer and has taught in many Executive Development Programmes, (for example, Stanford-NUS Executive Programme, McDonalds, Asahi Glass, DHL, Alcatel-Lucent, Astra, Monetary Authority of Singapore, National Healthcare Group, among others). 

He also serves as a financial consultant for corporations and expert witness for litigation purposes. His consulting works include valuation of companies, stock options, financial reporting, financial planning and evaluation of companies and internal control designs and systems. Professor Ho spends most of his other time serving the communities.

He serves as the Chairman of the Audit Committee of St Luke Hospital and Dover Park Hospice. He is also the President of The Boys’ Brigade in Singapore and Chairman School Management Committee of the KuoChuan Presbyterian Schools. With respect to government organisations and statutory boards, he serves as a director or council member of Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Accounting and Corporate Reporting Authority (Singapore), Singapore Tax Academy amongst others. Finally, he sits on the investment committee of several not-for- profit organisations.

The conference is specially meant for directors, CEOS, management and financial accountants, managers and executives in marketing, IT, human resource, banking, finance, insurance, key management of State-Owned Enterprises and Government, lecturers of universities, technical colleges, professionals and others in industry, commerce, non-profit institutions and professional bodies.

Those interested to register for the conference can contact Shanthi on 071-4705536; email: [email protected] on or before 30 June. Special discounts will be applicable based on the number of registrants.