New Zealander Ross Buckley was well on the way to forging an impressive international career with Big Four auditor KPMG, so he didn’t bat an eye when asked to provide technical training and support in the Middle East after stints at the coal... read more

completed her CPA designation and relocated to Brisbane. It’s been an eventful six months for Michelle Antonious. In October last year she completed her CPA designation and in January she moved from Melbourne to Brisbane and a new stage in... read more

Watching an enormous magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine being craned into a large Canberra hospital is one of the highlights of Amanda Taylor’s career. The young accountant’s financial modelling skills were central to the... read more

David Penklis FCPA has a massive task ahead of him. His job is to bring together the support services for six peacekeeping organisations with a budget totalling US$4 billion and comprising 74,000 people working in some of the world’s most... read more

Delano Sinniah CPA has a deep passion for cricket. When he was a boy at an Anglican boarding school, St John’s College Jaffna, in northern Sri Lanka – the fourth of his five brothers to go there – the young Sinniah proudly played... read more

At just 35, Ronald Tam CPA is already a corporate leader and is also helping to develop the next generation of business leaders in Asia. One of INTHEBLACK’s 40 Young Business Leaders, Tam was appointed managing director and the head of... read more

Sport has always been a significant force in the life of Sarah de Rozario CPA, the chief financial officer of Hockey WA (Western Australia). As a teenager in Perth de Rozario was the captain of her high school netball, softball and... read more

Stella Michael CPA never set out to be a change agent in business or in life. “It just came naturally,” she says. “I challenge people and help them make changes, rather than just letting things happen.” The London-based... read more

On 1 January this year Mohammad Azlan Abdullah CPA became chief executive officer (CEO) of New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Berhad after a three-month transition period as chief operating officer (COO). He is now in charge of a business that is... read more

Australia’s A$12 billion fashion retail industry is in the doldrums. With annualised growth predicted to be just 1.5 per cent over the next five years, the future looks bleak. Enter Stephen Doessel, who’s launching himself as a retail... read more

Five hundred years may be ancient history by most people’s measure, but accounting historian Jayne Bisman FCPA believes lessons from Tudor England may inform the management of global issues in the 21st century. Research by Bisman, soon to be... read more

Internationally recognised researcher Dr Rosina McAlpine FCPA has spent 24 years apprising university students of the fine details of accounting, analysing figures and evaluating outcomes, with a strong emphasis on the social relevance of the... read more

When he left school at the age of 17, Antony Platford walked straight into a commerce/economics degree at La Trobe University in Melbourne. Four weeks later he walked straight out again. “I think I really needed to get out in the... read more

Working with fellow professionals he can rely on makes accounting a dream job for James Wyrewenaden, 28, a partner at LP & W Chartered Accountants in Northbridge in the Western Australian capital of Perth. Although the practice is still in its... read more

Mark Turnbull CPA Thiess Pty Ltd Even for a born-and-bred fellow from Newcastle, Australia, getting into the mining game in 2001 – when commodities prices were substantially lower than they are today – didn’t seem the smartest... read more

In Melbourne’s leafy east, Nicholas Tragas recently took on some heavy hitters in the reporting field and came out on top.The Grand Hyatt Hotel hosted the annual Australasian Reporting Awards in June this year. The awards are designed to... read more

When Lawrie Tremaine moved into the CFO role at Woodside in December last year he held a “getting to know you” workshop with his direct reports.“I wanted to sound out what they wanted from me and what their expectations were in... read more

Cindy Chow’s job has its share of glamorous moments. She attends star-studded premieres, mingles in the entertainment world and even gets to watch TV as part of her work. But her path to becoming chief financial officer for Fox International... read more

In 2007, before the GFC sounded its knell, hedge fund players in London were the rock stars of the financial world. They made vast amounts and lived in the lap of luxury. As a middle office accountant for the US$23 billion fund GLG Partners, Nadi... read more

Simon Jupe started racing go-karts aged nine, going on to compete on the Australian speedway circuit in the rough-and-tumble V8 Dirt Modified class. “As a kid I always dreamt of being a professional race car driver,” he says. That... read more

The day an international air carrier touches down at Newcastle Airport, 100km north of Sydney, Australia, will be a red-letter one for Helen Wild. As the airport’s manager of corporate services, and company secretary, Wild, 39, has been... read more

Career changes are commonplace these days, but within accounting circles in the 1980s it was a radical move and Irene Cheng was a pioneer. Today she’s managing director of Irene Cheng & Co, a thriving Hong Kong full-service accounting... read more

In many careers there comes a time to take a risk. For Michael Tanujaya CPA, it came several years after joining Lend Lease, Australia’s largest integrated property development group, as a project financial analyst. He was working n the... read more

Timing, they say, is everything. And David Housego FCPA, outgoing CFO (he leaves in May) and former executive director of global resources and energy professional services provider WorleyParsons, has the knack. For example, there’s the... read more