Course Description

This course features highlights of the ISCA Conference 2025 held on 12 November 2025.


Synopsis:

In today’s increasingly complex financial reporting landscape, valuation experts are frequently engaged to support management in developing reliable estimates, particularly in complex areas such as intangible assets, real estate, intellectual property and financial instruments. But valuers don’t just “provide a number.” Their insights help shape the credibility and transparency of financial statements. 

At the same time, auditors as the independent eyes on the financials, cannot take these valuations at face value. They play a critical role in assessing whether these valuations are reasonable, supportable and compliant with financial reporting requirements. 

This fireside chat brings together valuation and audit professionals to illuminate their roles within the financial reporting ecosystem and explore how their interactions support robust and reliable financial statement disclosures.

  • The critical role of valuation experts in financial reporting.
  • Key differences in responsibilities between valuers acting as management’s expert vs. the auditor’s expert.
  • Practical challenges faced by valuers and auditors, from data limitations to expectations gaps.
  • Best practices for effective collaboration among management, valuers and auditors, drawing on established guidance and real-world examples.


Intended For:

  • Audit Professionals / PAIP
  • Finance Professionals / PAIB 
  • Public Sector Finance
  • C-suite & Directors

 

Competency Mapping: 

  • CPE Category "Others" = 0.5 CPE Hour
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Damien Tai

CA (Singapore), Audit & Assurance Partner, Grant Thornton Singapore

Damien is an Audit & Assurance Partner at Grant Thornton Singapore, with more than 20 years of experience in providing audit, IPO and advisory services to local and multinational clients across a wide range of industries. He has significant experience in planning, executing and managing audits of large public listed companies in Singapore. This entails coordinating audits carried out by a number of network offices in the region and dealing with challenging accounting issues.Damien actively contributes to the profession as a member of ISCA’s Auditing and Assurance Standards Committee and ISCA’s SCAQ Learning and Assessment Committee.
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Ashish McLaren

Managing Director and Southeast Asia Leader, Valuation Advisory Services, Kroll

Ashish is a Managing Director and the Southeast Asia Leader for Valuation Advisory Services at Kroll in Singapore. He provides valuation services to his clients regarding their Mergers and Acquisitions transactions, Purchase Price Allocation exercises, asset impairment reviews, and other financial reporting valuations.With over 18 years of valuation experience in Singapore, Ashish has worked on deals across borders as well as across varies industries including telecom, precision manufacturing, consumer & retail, food & beverage, healthcare, power generation and infrastructure. He has advised several companies on their M&A, IP valuation and financial reporting valuation requirements. He has also advised various private equity players in their financial reporting as well as portfolio valuation requirements.Some of the key transactions he has advised on include advisory for a leading Southeast Asian car distributor for an acquisition in the region, advisory for a leading multi-services group in Singapore with regards acquisitions and internal organization restructuring, advisory to a leading TMT group with regards their global acquisitions.Ashish is a member of the Institute of Valuers & Appraisers, Singapore (IVAS) Council and the Chairperson of IVAS’ Standards and Technical Working Group.Ashish is a registered Chartered Valuer & Appraiser (CVA) with IVAS, holds a graduate honors degree in Physics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, India and received his Post Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA) from Amity Business School, NOIDA, India.
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Nicolas Konialidis

Nicolas brings over two decades of Corporate and Financial experience to EverEdge’s Valuation Team. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a Chartered Valuer and Appraiser (CVA). He was awarded the Lim Chong Yah Academic Gold Medal for his Nanyang Fellows MBA at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He graduated from the Institute for Political Science (“Sciences Po”) in Paris, France.Before joining EverEdge Global, Nicolas was a corporate finance advisor and Investor Relations officer for corporate clients in Singapore in a variety of industries, most notably in Renewable Energy. Prior to that, Nicolas spent sixteen years in Equity Capital Markets in Paris, London, New York and San Francisco in an array of functions from trading to Institutional sales for firms such as SE Banken, Credit Agricole and Sanford C. Bernstein.

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The Role of Valuation Experts in Financial Reporting

0.5 CPE Hour

Lesson(s)

3

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