ACCA & CAT Lecturers Profile
Visiting UK Lecturer
Michael Mainwaring, MBA, MSc
Specialises in P3 Business Analysis
Michael has an MBA from the University of Liverpool and an MSC from the University of London. He spent the early part of his career in management consultancy before deciding that lecturing was what he wanted to do. Although based in London at LCA, Michael has taught all over the world - in the Caribbean, India, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Eire and, most exotic of all, Walsall, although he now confines his overseas teaching to Malaysia. He specialises in teaching ACCA Paper P3 Business Analysis and produces all his own study materials, including his not-to-be-missed 'Bluff Notes', which cover the syllabus in less than 100 pages. Michael favours a highly focused approach to the syllabus, and a highly structured approach to tackling case studies.
Daniel Lee Onn Mun, FCCA, CA(M), CFP, ACITM
Daniel began his career with Coopers & Lybrand (now known as PricewaterhouseCoopers) before venturing into education and training industry. Having been in this industry for 16 years, he has spearheaded ACCA programmes for colleges namely Sunway College PJ, PAAC, Orange International College, KDU College and INTI College Subang Jaya. Daniel also provides consultancy services to colleges located overseas.
Currently, Daniel is jointly responsible in managing the ACCA division of INTI College Subang Jaya and two leading colleges in Damansara and Kuala Lumpur.
For more than 10 years, Daniel lectures in Costing, Management Accounting and Finance based subjects. His lecturing courses include professional programmes like CAT, ACCA, CIMA, ICSA and MICPA. Committed and focused, many students have succeeded and even achieve highest score in Malaysia for the subjects he taught.
Joey Wong
Specialises in P7 Advanced Audit & Assurance & F8 Audit Assurance
An ACCA affiliate, Joey specialises in Auditing, Business Strategy and related subjects. He regularly conducts training courses locally in Malaysia as well as abroad in China, Cambodia and Vietnam. His special approach in delivering theory papers aims to ensure 100% retention of knowledge. He attained awards in the areas of Financial Accounting and Information Technology (IT) in the course of pursuing his ACCA qualification. Sit back and enjoy his unique approach to lectures while he pilots you towards exam success!
Arshad Adam, FCCA, MSc in International Business, University of Nottingham
Specialises in P5 Adv. Performance Management & F5 Performance Management
En. Adam has more than 15 years corporate and teaching experience in management accounting, auditing and finance papers for ACCA and CIMA. Previously worked as Associate Professor at University of Nottingham. He has also taught internationally in Vietnam, Brunei, Uganda, China and Dubai in addition to Malaysia.
Yoong Mun Yen, FCCA
Specialises in P4 Adv. Financial Mgmt., F9 Financial Mgmt. & CAT T10 Managing Finance
Mr Yoong, is a Fellow Member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and graduate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators,ICSA (UK). He started his professional career in London before returning to Malaysia to join a major accountancy firm. He has more than 20 years experience in delivering lectures on Financial Strategy, Advanced Financial Management, Corporate and Business Finance subjects for various professional bodies including ACCA, CIMA and ICSA. By empowering his unique studying approach for professional exams over the past 20 years, some of his students also became prize winners for the financial management paper in the professional examination in Malaysia with the latest candidate achieving the first prize for corporate financial management paper in ICSA June 2008 exam.
As a student he studied for both the professional exams at the same time and also passed a maximum of 12 subjects in the same sitting. He completed his ICSA exam in record time of 18 months and ACCA in 30 months. One of his outstanding recognition during studies was receiving the World First Prize for the UK Taxation paper.
Amy Sivadass, BA(Hons), MBA
Specialises in P3 Business Analysis & F1 Accounting in Business
Ms. Amy has more than 9 years of teaching experience in Business Strategy, Marketing, Management and related subjects. Ms Amy understood that students have problem in writing and analytical skills. As such with her experiences in conducting many seminars in Critical Thinking and Writing skills will help her students to improve writing skills.
In order to pass this paper, Ms Amy ensure her students do the case study and marked it so that she will be able to guide her students where are their weakness.
Benjamin J, BSc(Hons), FCCA, FFA, MBA
Specialises in P2 Corporate Reporting & F7 Financial Reporting
Mr Samuel is Fellow member of the ACCA and IFA UK. He has vast industrial experience in leading multinational firms prior to his teaching portfolio. He has been in the education industry for the last six years and has taught accounting related courses extensively from the Professional Course, Postgraduate and Undergraduate levels.
His records in teaching professional examinations for ACCA include F7 - Financial Reporting, P2 - Corporate Reporting, P1 - Professional Accountant , F8 - Audit and Assurance. Mr. Samuel has also been teaching the CIMA for the course P3 - Performance Strategy.
His teaching approach is highly practical but at the same time strongly based in theoretical aspects to give students the cutting edge knowledge and skills to pass the examination with good grades. Mr. Samuel is also active in research and has published papers in international journals and presented papers in conferences. In 2009 his paper was awarded the best paper in accounting titled "Non-Compliance of Segment Reporting Practices of Malaysian Companies: An exploratory study” at a conference.
Jay, FCCA, MBA, Pg.Dip.Marketing
Specialises in P1 Professional Accountant & Auditing subjects
Jay is a Fellow member of ACCA and also possessed a professional qualification in marketing. Mr Jay has over 12 years of lecturing experiences in a few established private education institutes both locally and oversea.
Mr Jay has gained his reputation lecturing on audit, financial accounting, management and related subjects. His dedication and commitment in lecturing has made him one of the reputable lecturers.
Thenesh Kannaa, ACCA, CA(M), MSCI, Fin
Specialises in F9 Financial Management
Thenesh has been lecturing both professional courses and degree programs over the last 3 years, helping hundreds of students in Subang Jaya, Petaling Jaya, Kuala Lumpur, Johor Bharu & Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) to excel in their exams. His self built lecture notes provide a comprehensive coverage of the syllabus, while the lectures are exam orientated.
Students often express that the attending classes conducted by Thenesh does not merely assist them in performing well in the exam, but also helps develop themselves as knowledgeable professional accountants. Thenesh has a unique style in examining facts ubderlying the complex issues and models to illustrate the logic behind the issues or models in simple ways - in the process of giving students a strong comprehensive of the issues or models.
Recently, Thenesh has updated the corporate financial management manual for MAICSA. Being an ACCA Prize winner and experienced lecturer, Thenesh surely knows the right exam skills. Enroll to study ACCA F9 with Thenesh and maximises your marks now!
Grace Lee, FCCA, MBA
Specialises in F7 Financial Reporting & P2 Corporate Reporting
Ms. Grace has more than 20 years industrial and teaching experience in accounting and finance for the ACCA, CIMA, ICSA, CAT and LCCI courses in Klang Valley, East Malaysia and China. She specializes in F7 and P2 ACCA subjects. She has produced numerous graduates, most of whom have held positions of authority in the commercial firms throughout the country.
Her proven track record is attributed to her style of lecture and examination oriented notes which has helped students build a strong foundation on the subject matter. She was formerly an associate lecturer with the University of Abertay Dundee, UK supervising students’ project dissertation.
Assoc.Prof Faridah, FCCA, CA(M), FTII(M) - Guest Lecturer
Specialises in F6(M) Taxation
Pn Faridah is an Associate Professor of Taxation at the Faculty of Accountancy, Universiti Teknology MARA, Malaysia. She has written the BPP ACCA F6(M). She has been teaching taxation course since she first joined the University in April 1980. She teaches Malaysian and UK Taxation at various levels which include Diploma in Accountncy, Bachelor of Accountancy, ACCA and ICSA. She is actively involved in consultancy and training programmes for small and medium sized entrepreneurs in the area of taxation.
Pn Faridah graduated from ACCA in 1979, She was admitted as a Fellow of the Assciation in 1987. She is also a Malaysia Institute of Accountants (CA) and Fellow member of the Chartered Institute Taxation of Malaysia (CITM).
Ramesh Balakrishnan, LLB, University of London
Specialises in F4(MYS) Corporate Business Law
Ramesh Balakrishnan holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University from the University of London. With his serious and no-nonsense personality, he commands his students’ attention and turns even the most tedious of topics interesting and simple by using his techniques. His 11 years experience has made him to be a pioneer law lecturer in Johor Bahru.
He has been lecturing in Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya for more than 5 years. He has been lecturing law subjects in many reputable programmes such as ACCA, LLB (UOL), BSc (UOL), CIMA (UK), Cambridge University (UK) and ABE (UK).
He has earned praises from many of his students for helping them in passing and scoring the Corporate and Business Law (MYS) F4 ACCA and also other law papers. His strengths include making law subject easy to understand with charts, mind-mapping, past-years analysis, tutorials, interrograms, assignments, time test and mock exams, at the same time, going into the depths of the subject. He has also conducted Intensive Revision Course in East Malaysia on several occasions.
Notably, one of his student have obtained the Malaysia Prize (2nd Placing) in 2001 and (1st Placing) in June 2007 in the same subject. He is also the Co-author and editor of ACCA Study Text for Paper F4 in Corporate and Business Law (Malaysian) published by BPP Learning Media Ltd, UK, an official publisher for ACCA, which is the first book in Malaysian variant.
Ong S.S, MBA, Bachelor of Economics
Specialises in F2 Mgmt Accounting & CAT 9(M) Preparing Tax Computation
A very well qualified lecturer.She was a Malaysia Prize Winner who scored excellent grades during her studies in ACCA. In addition, she had obtained a first class honours degree the University of Malaya and completed her MBA where she scored a CGPA of 3.86 - 4.00
Ms Ong is a dedicated and responsible lecturer for F6 paper. She had a good passing rate for most of the subjects she had taught. Through her former students' feedback, her teaching methods are good and they sit their papers with ease. Most of her students scored very well in their exams.She is continuously improving her teraching skills to produce better quality students with high passing grades.
Aliana Lim, MBA, ICSA
Specialises in F1 Accountant in Business
Aliana started her career in project management as well as system support in both commercial sectors and public practice (one of the BIG 4).
After leaving from commerical line, Aliana then pursue her career into education sector. she is currently lecturing on the corporate governance, human resource management related subjects for several diplomas program and professional programs include the ACCA.
Laurence Kuek, AAT, MCSE
Specialises in CAT Paper 7 Planning, Control & Performance Management
Prior to the lecturing profession, Laurence started his career in the retail catering operations for a UK FTSE 100 company responsible for budgeting, controls, training and IT.
Laurence has then continued his teaching career with one of the long established college in East Malaysia. With years of experience in the higher education industry, he has gained extensive exposures in the teaching cost & management accounting subjects for various external examination programs including the ACCA, CAT, ABE and LCCI.
Laurence’s effort is not only benefit the students in the classroom, but also, with his specially written assisted learning systems, he has successfully increased the candidates’ pass rates in the Computer Based examination for the CAT and ACCA examination with the prove of several world prizes won by his students.
S.M.Tan, BSc
Specialises in CAT Paper 6 Drafting Financial Statements
S.M. Tan holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Management from the University of London.
She has 8 years of lecturing experience in LCCI and diploma courses and 10 years of private tutoring experience in Accounting, Economics and English. With her vast teaching experience, excellent communication skills, approachable and empathetic personality, you will find the learning process to be beneficial and interesting.
Alex Chan, BSc
Specialises in CAT Paper 5 Managing People & Systems
Alex Chan graduated from the University of Canterbury (NZ), majored in Accountancy, Finance and Information Systems. He has been analyst programmer of a financial institution and a corporate finance analyst of a listed construction company. These have provided him invaluable opportunities to gain insights into the practice of accounting, finance and management in reality, and enable him to complement academic knowledge with practical applications when delivering his lectures.
Alex inspires students with the pictures behind the figures and always believes in exploring students’ own initiative to strive for success and excellence.
Sean Lee
Specialises in CAT T1 Accounting & T2 Costing and ACCA F3 Financial Accounting
An ACCA affiliate, Sean specialises in Accounting, Costing and related subjects. He has practical involve in group strategic planning and performance measurement in one of the Public Listed Companies. Sean believes “knowledge could change our life” which bring him to explore into education today. He is sensitive to the needs of students and tentatively reduces the student pressure by keeping study simple.
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