Introducing Speaker for Forum

Dato’ Gan Ah Tee DNS, JP
Managing Partner

Education/Qualification

• Fellow Chartered Accountant of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (“ICAEW”)
• Corporate Finance Qualification granted by ICAEW
• Member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (“MIA”)
• Member of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (“MICPA”) 
• Licensed Investment Representative under Capital Market Services Act, 2007

Expertise Summary

Dato’ Gan has over 30 years’ experience in auditing, accounting and financial advisory. He specialises in corporate turnaround and financial restructuring of under-performing companies and has extensive experience in the field of corporate finance and advisory assignments.

Dato’ Gan is the Managing Partner for BDO Malaysia as well as the Regional Senior Partner for Asia Pacific Region C (ASEAN).

He is the Immediate Past Chairman of ICAEW Malaysia City Group (MCG). Prior to his term as Chairman of ICAEW MCG, he was Chairman of its Education & Training Committee, a position which he recently resumed.

Dato’ Gan had played an active role in MIA as Council Member and Exco Member. He currently sits on the Council and Exco of MICPA. In addition, he sits on Universiti Malaya’s Advisory Council to the Faculty of Business & Accountancy.

Always passionate about talking to the younger generation, Dato’ Gan has given numerous career talks through channels such as The Star Education Fair and events organised by ICAEW, ACCA, MICPA and MIA.

FORUM

Local and Overseas Opportunities for Accounting Graduates:

Should We Stay, or Leave?

Representative Of ICAEW, Dato Gan Ah Tee, Brendan Yap

Talking about the career opportunities of local accounting students and overseas accounting students, many might have the stereotype perspective that the prospects of working in overseas especially western countries are much brighter than that in Malaysia. How far is this statement true?

By looking at the quality of students and education classes that these fresh graduates have gone through, overseas students may seem to have the superiority in the kick start of their career with all the certificates from renowned foreign universities. Again, how far is this statement true?

Now, let’s drill down specifically into opportunities of accounting students in today’s world. Willy-nilly, the foundation of education system in accounting field is said to be more established in certain countries such as United Kingdom and Australia as compared to Malaysia being the new entry in this field. Same goes to the working opportunities. Hence, this ultimately leads to a serious issue in Malaysia, brain drain. 

 With this, a thoughtful and productive forum which aims to create a continuing and insightful dialogue between voices from different background will be held. Through this forum discussion, panels will share on their views on factors that address these issues. Solutions on resolving the issues would be one of the highlights as to tackle the dilemma and provide a clearer picture to all delegates.