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Mr. LAM Chi Yuen, Nelson 林智遠 BBA(Hons)(HKBU), MBA(HKUST), MSc(CUHK), ACA, ACIS, ACS, CFA, CPA(Aust.), CPA(US), FCCA, FCPA(Practising), FHKIoD, MHKSI, MSCA |
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Experience Mr. Nelson Lam, a Fellow Certified Public Accountant (Practising), CFA charterholder and Chartered Accountant, is the founder of Nelson and Company, Certified Public Accountants. Qualified in one of the largest professional accountancy firms, and worked for another professional firm before established his own professional practice, Nelson has accumulated extensive experience in providing financial reporting, assurance, tax planning, and financial advisory services to multinational and local companies. His current clients include listed companies and private companies from Africa, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, UK and US. |
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Qualifications Nelson graduated with BBA(Hons) degree from the Hong Kong Baptist University, MBA degree from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Master of Science degree in finance from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is simultaneously a member of several HK, UK, US and Australia professional bodies, including:
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Current practice Leveraged on his experience and expertise, Nelson has provided his clients with constructive and value-added financial reporting advisory and tax services. One of his current major tasks is to assist his clients in complying the new financial reporting standards in Hong Kong and simultaneously in planning and evaluating the corresponding profits tax implication. |
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With proven knowledge and expertise, Nelson is one of the popular speakers and named experts in Hong Kong and International Financial Reporting Standards in Hong Kong, Mainland China and Macau. He not only spoke regularly for different professional bodies (including ACCA, CFA Institute - HK Chapter, CICPA, CPA Australia, and HKICPA), universities and not-for-profit institutes, but also wrote and spoke occasionally to different medias, including newspapers, radio station and televisions. Pursuant to the convergence of the accounting standards of Mainland China and Macau to the International Financial Reporting Standards in 2007, Nelson was also invited by different professional and commercial entities, including ACCA, CICPA, JP Morgan Chase and the CRCA of the Finance Services Bureau in Macau, to speak to the qualified accountants, university professors and the management of listed entities in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Qingdao, Xiamen and Macau. In Korea, all listed companies will be required to prepare their annual financial statements under Korean equivalents of IFRSs (K-IFRSs) beginning in 2011. Nelson was invited to speak and share the experience of IFRSs and HKFRSs in Hong Kong and Greater China with the professional accountants and university professors in an IFRS conference in Seoul of Korea in April 2008. |
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Public and Professional Services Since July 2007, Nelson has been appointed as a Panel Member of the Financial Reporting Review Panel by the Chief Executive of the HKSAR Government pursuant to section 39 of the Financial Reporting Council Ordinance, under which the Financial Reporting Council was incorporated and established for investigating into auditing and accounting irregularities and enquiring into financial reporting non-compliances in respect of listed entities. Nelson is now a member of various committees in HKICPA and ACCA and is currently a Deputy Chairman (2007 - 2008) of Small and Medium Practitioners Committee and QP Support Committee of HKICPA and a member of Financial Reporting Standard Committee of HKICPA. He is also a Council Member of The Society of Chinese Accountants and Auditors (SCAA) and also the Chairman of its Accounting and Auditing Standards Committee and Technical Support Committee. During his leisure time, Nelson acts as a lecturer (part-time) in local universities and a workshop facilitator in HKICPA. He is currently lecturing financial reporting and financial management courses in the Hong Kong Baptist University and is an External Assessor and Master Workshop Facilitator in the Qualification Programme of HKICPA. Nelson was also invited to speak for different media and non-profit making entities, including radio, television, newspapers, the Hong Kong Council of Social Services, the Hong Kong Institute of Directors and the Securities and Futures Commission, in order to enhance the knowledge and analysis skills in financial reports of the general public. In 2008, Mr. Lam has been invited to be a Visiting Associate Professor in Beijing Normal University - Hong Kong Baptist University United International College in the Zhuhai campus in PRC to share his knowledge and experience on financial reporting and other accounting issues. |
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Awards and Publications One of Nelson's real life cases, "Pacific Century CyberWork Limited - the Acquisition of Cable and Wireless HKT Limited", with an in-depth financial and valuation analysis on that mega-acquisition in Asia, had won the championship (Gold Award) in the First Accounting Case Competition organised by the HKICPA. The case report has been collected in the book, "Accounting Cases in Hong Kong", published by the City University of Hong Kong Press. In recognition of his important contribution to the Qualification Programme of HKICPA, Nelson was presented with a special award, the Master Workshop Facilitator Award, in 2004 and 2007 respectively. In 2006, Nelson published a new book "Auditing and Assurance in Hong Kong" together with Dr. Peter Lau and the book is one of the first books to cover the latest developments of 2005 and 2006 in the auditing standards, accounting standards and professional ethics guidance in Hong Kong. In 2008, Nelson together with Dr. Peter Lau wrote a book "Intermediate Financial Reporting: an IFRS Perspective" (by McGraw-Hill Education Asia) in 2008 and it contained real cases from different places and plenty of examples to illustrate financial reporting in the context of IFRSs. |
Last modified: 15 Nov 2008.
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