Teaching Course

ACCA - P6

Conversion Programme - Taxation

QP - Module D

CTA - Paper 2

Angela is a taxation expert with solid experience in finance and corporate planning including global tax and transfer pricing planning in MNCs. Since joining Kaplan she has been teaching for over 12 years with over 9 years on exam-based training. She has been a HKICPA workshop facilitator and a QP Modules & Final Exam marker for many sessions.

Practical Experience

• Expert in Taxation
• Over 13 years of teaching experience with over 10 years on exam-based training
• Solid experience in Finance and Corporate Planning including global tax and transfer pricing planning in multi-national companies
• Former HKICPA workshop facilitator and QP Modules & Final Exam marker

Teaching approach

• Demonstrate taxation rules and applications through lively examples
• Strong presentation skill to simplify difficult concepts into diagrams and charts to facilitate students’ understanding and planning for a well-structured answer in examination
• Share with students the common mistakes in examination from her marking experience
• Well organized and up-to-date notes best fitted exam style and content

Teaching Course

QP - Module D

FE

Formally a tax manager at Deloitte, Christine went on to join Kaplan Financial where she gains over 10 years’ experience lecturing Final Exam, QP Module D and ACCA Advanced Taxation. As our star lecturer, her own supplementary notes incorporating in all up-to-date tax laws/DIPNs follow closely the examination trends.
 

Practical Experience

• Principle Lecturer and Star Lecturer in Taxation 
• Well-organized and systematic interpretation, targeted main points of materials
• Over 12 years teaching experience QP Module D and FE
• Former tax manager at Deloitte Touché Tohmatsu’s Corporate and China Tax services for 8 years
• Extensive practical experience in both HK Tax Planning assignments
• A famous trainer for HKICPA QP & FE exams among Big 4 clients and public students
   

Education Phase 

• Build up the knowledge of tax principles through the study of Learning Pack(LP) which contains useful information related to the exam questions, and with the aid of tailor-made notes, daily life examples, diagrams and flowcharts to illustrate the diffcult tax concepts
• Christine will highlight the keywords of each IRO main principle, the tricks and common mistakes by students in the interpretation of tax law

Revision Phase 

• Teach students on how to use the "step-by-step" analytical thinking process to tackle the exam questions
• Highlight the common errors and mistakes made by students in answering the questions

• Former Head of Legal Research and Management Unit of Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption
• Former President and Training Director of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Hong Kong
• Experienced lecturing in legal compliance and commercial law including contract, tort, personal data privacy and criminal law and procedures relating to the prevention and detection of fraud
• Legal consultant of various listed companies in Singapore and Hong Kong
• Co-author of an Internal Control Guide Book - titled: “Practical Approach to Prevention and Detection of Fraud"

MScMF (Oxford), BEng (HKUST), CFA, FRM
 

Cyrus held previous roles in various top investment and global banks in London and Hong Kong, including Morgan Stanley, HSBC and RBS. During his banking years for over a decade, he was involved in derivatives, equity derivatives, equities, currency, risk management, product control and P&L analysis.

Cyrus received his Master of Science in Mathematical Finance (with distinction) from the University of Oxford. He passed all levels of CFA exam and FRM exam in one-go. At Kaplan he shares his recommendation on how to use the course slides and practice questions strategically to highlight important areas and build exam technique.
 

• Over 10 years of experience in derivatives, equity derivatives, equities, currency, risk management, product control and P&L analysis
• Passed all levels of CFA exam and FRM exam in one-go
• Able to share his recommendation on how to use the course slides and practice questions strategically to highlight important areas and build exam technique