Francine McKenna and I correspond over Twitter on various topics covering Corporate Governance and the “Expectations Gap” between auditors and the stakeholders they serve. She has more than twenty years of experience in the consulting and professional services environment including tenures in both the US and abroad at PwC, KPMG/BearingPoint, JP Morgan and Jefferson Wells/Manpower. She is a freelance writer and a frequent speaker in and out of the accounting/audit world.

Francine invited me to author a guest post on her blog, “re: The Auditors“. She writes and speaks passionately, authoritatively and most importantly, critically about the audit profession and the auditor’s role in capital markets.

I jumped at the chance to author a guest post on her blog, and this is the result. It’s a summary of the first Plenary session at AFA16 where I was invited to present a paper.

http://retheauditors.com/2009/12/15/a-guest-post-from-bruneis-pengiran-izam/

If you’re an accountant, I heartily recommend adding her RSS news feed to your newsreader and keep up to date with the latest developments that affects all accountants everywhere.

This week, we hosted the 16th ASEAN Federation of Accountants confernce here in Brunei and I was very pleased when I received an invitation from BICPA and the organising committee to present a paper on the above topic.

I’ve uploaded my slides to slideshare.net, and I also attach high res slides after the break below.