Expo speakers

Bruce Mackenzie

CA (SA), RA, FCCA, ACA, JSE Registered IFRS Advisor
Bachelor of Accounting Science (B Compt)
Honours Bachelor of Accounting Science (Hons. B Compt)
Higher Diploma in Taxation

Bruce is the Managing Director of W.consulting, a global advisory firm. Bruce is a member of the IFRS Interpretations Committee (IFRIC),IASB’s SME Implementation Group, and the Financial Reporting Standards Council of South Africa. He was formerly a member of the IASB’s
IFRS Advisory Council.

Bruce has worked for Deloitte both in South Africa and the United Kingdom in their IFRS Centres of Excellence consulting on the implications of IFRS; and with Barclays Capital in London as an Associate Director in the
Structured Capital Markets group involved in the IFRS conversion projects for the Structured Capital Markets, High Value Leasing and Private Equity divisions of Barclays Capital, as well as IFRS consulting to the structuring teams.During his career he has worked with multinational listed companies, public sector entities and SME’s.

Bruce has delivered training across Africa, the USA, Europe and Australia. During his career he has presented on behalf of the International Accounting Standards Board, and has presented to the United Nations Global Compact. He is a lead author on Wiley IFRS
2011 – 2013, Applying IFRS for SMEs, and was the senior editor on the Deloitte accounting manual ‘IAS: A Guide to Preparing Accounts’ and an associate author on ‘UK GAAP’.

Sanat Kumar Bheeroo

FCCA, MIPA, Dip IFRS, CFA Candidate
Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
ACCA Diploma in IFRS
CFA Candidate

Sanat is a Technical Manager at W.consulting and a CPD NQF level 8 trainer.
He is part of the IFRS Advisory Team based in our office in Mauritius. He qualified as a chartered certified accountant with Nexia and has worked for both KPMG and BT during his career. While with Nexia, he was an audit supervisor and an IFRS advisor for both local and foreign companies, and served as the technical manager with India Management Services (IMS) Ltd.
Sanat has also worked as a finance manager and ACCA lecturer (specialising in Financial Reporting (F7), Financial Management (F9), Corporate Reporting (P2) and Advanced Financial Management (P4)) at FTMS Global Education (Mauritius), where he has provided lectures to both Mauritian and foreign students. Sanat is also a CFA Candidate.
His main interests lie in IFRSs (especially in IFRS 9), financial mathematics, financial engineering, derivatives and statistics.
Sanat has authored many leading publications on IFRS and has published eight books in accounting since 1997. He has also more than twenty years of experience in the field of educating professionals and students in IFRS.