Target Audience: Preparers, Users, Advisors, and Auditors of Corporate Reports

Presenters:

• Stathis Gould: Director, Advocacy, International Federation of Accountants
• Chris Arnold: Head of SME/SMPs and Research, International Federation of Accountants
• Michael Bray: Director, In-Country Engagement, Interational Integrated Reporting Council
• Nigel Edwards:  Executive Director, Trinidad and Tobago Unit Trust Corporation

Danielle Supkis Cheek, CPA*, CFE, CVA

Danielle Supkis Cheek is the VP, Head of Analytics and AI at Caseware International. Danielle joins Caseware after being the VP of Strategy and Industry Relations at MindBridge.

Danielle earned her Bachelors from Rice University in Houston, TX, and her Master of Science in Accountancy from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA.

She is a Certified Public Account (CPA) in the State of Texas, a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA).

Danielle sits on the Technology Experts Group for the International Ethics Standards Board and is the US Representative to the IFAC Small and Medium Practitioners Advisory Group (SMPAG). She is also on the AI Task Forces for Assurance Services Executive Committee (ASEC) and for Professional Ethics Executive Committee (PEEC). She is an at-large member of AICPA Council. She is a past Chair of the PCPS Technical Issues Committee and a past member of the Auditing Standards Board.

Danielle is an 8-time 40 under 40 by the CPA Practice Advisor and was the Houston CPA’s Society’s Distinguished Member to the Profession for 2019. She was also the first woman to receive the AICPA’s Outstanding Young CPA of the Year Award in Honor of Maximo in 2016 and is a 6-time Most Powerful Women in Accounting by CPA Practice Advisor and AICPA.

She is also part-time faculty at Rice University’s Jones School of Business teaching data analytics to the Masters of Accountancy (MAcc) students.

* Licensed only in Texas

With nearly 20 years of experience in the financial audit industry, Monica Stefan became a member in the IFAC Small and Medium Practices Advisory Group in January 2021 at the recommendation of the Romanian Chamber of Financial Auditors.

Ms. Stefan's audit career started in a Romanian Big 4 representative and continued after three years in developing and growing the audit component in the local Group SOTER & Partners. Currently, the Group is a local significant financial advisory company, with more than 26 years in the local market. Monica has been an authorized auditor with the Romanian Chamber of Auditors since January 2005 and an ACCA member since July 2004.

Since 2010 Monica has been actively involved with the Romanian Chamber of Auditors, in working groups, task forces, and article writing, and in events organized by the Chamber. Throughout 2013-2014 she participated in the ACCA Forum for SMEs and developed an interest in raising a “voice” for this market sector.

Effective Sept 2017 – Oct 2020 she was elected Council Member with the Romanian Change of Auditors and set her efforts into raising awareness on the importance of change in the national audit approach, the communication between institutions involved in the audit oversight and training programs for members. She is currently one of the representatives of the Romanian Chamber of Auditors with Accountancy Europe, in the AAPG and PEC Groups since 2017.

Baubre Murray is a Director of DM Consulting Ltd, a small accounting firm based in Wellington, New Zealand, specialising in providing tax and accounting services to the SME sector. She is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ).

Baubre has been involved as a volunteer with CA ANZ and the NZ Institute of Chartered Accountants for more than 15 years in roles ranging from Chair of the Women Accountants Group in Wellington, to member of the Public Practice Advisory Group and the NZICA and CA ANZ Councils.

She is a Chartered Member of the NZ Institute of Directors and holds several governance roles including Chair of the Human Resources Institute of NZ, and trustee of Sport Wellington and the LIfeBlood Trust.

Baubre is committed to improving financial literacy and has recently published her experiences on how to improve financial sustainability in her book "Stop Worrying About Money".

***Please Note: this is a closed event to PAFA & FIDEF Members Only - but will be live streamed on IFAC's YouTube channel***

On November 12, 2020, IFAC in partnership with cloudThing launched the IFAC PAO Digital Readiness Assessment Tool (the Tool).

A launch email was sent to each IFAC member organization which included a unique access link and additional information on completing the Tool.