VIETNAM CFO FORUM 2011
Hosted by Vietnam CFO Club & Japan Association for CFOs

ASIAN CFO READY FOR THE NEW STAGE OF DEVELOPMENTCONTENTS

 Asia & Vietnam Economic Outlook 2012
 Asian CFO with the professional skills standards - FASS Global
 Transforming Finance : Challenges & breakthrough solutions for CFOs
 Enterprise risk management in the context of economic crisis
 How information management improve the life of a CFO
 MIS for business control and growth Case study of Internal Control Deficiencies and Fraud

Date: November 23rd ,2011
Venue: Sheraton Saigon Hotel, HCMC, Vietnam
Working Language: English, Vietnamese,Japanese

Who should attend : CFOs, Financial
Controllers, Finance Managers, orother Financial Executives and CEOs

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VIETNAM CFO FORUM 2011

AGENDA
08:00 Registration & Welcome Coffee
08:30 Introduction: Guests of Honor and Agenda
08:35 Opening Speech
Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Bach – Asia President ofIAFEI; Founder & Director of Vietnam CFO Club;
Chairman & CEO of AsiaInvest GroupMr. Hiroshi Yaguchi - Chairman of IAFEI,
Founder & Executive Director of JapanAssociation for CFOs

SESSION I
MAKING FINANCE
A COMPETIVE POWER TO COMPANY
08:45 Asia & Vietnam Economic Outlook 2012
Dr. Le Dang Doanh - Senior Fellow of theEconomic College - Hanoi National University(HNU), Member of the Scholar Board of Central
Institute of Economic Management (CIEM)
09:10 Asian CFO with the professional skills
standards - FASS Global
Mr. Hiroshi Yaguchi - Chairman of IAFEI,
Founder & Executive Director of Japan
Association for CFOs
09:25 Transforming Finance: Challenges &breakthrough solutions for CFOs

SESSION II
CFO WITH HEALTHY AND EFFECTIVEFINANCIAL MANAGEMENTSYSTEM
10:25 Enterprise risk management in thecontext of economic crisis
Mr. Duong Hai – Standing Vice Directorof Vietnam CFO Club, Partner of Vietnam
Partners LLC
10:40 How information management
improve the life of a CFO?
Mr Chris Southam – Finance Director of
Microsoft South East Asia
11:00 MIS for business control and growth
Mr Rick Yvanovich - Chairman ofAMCHAM HCMC IT Committee, Board
Member of the South-East Asia Regional
Board (SEARB) for the Chartered Instituteof Management Accountants (CIMA), CEOof TRG International
11:15 Employee’s Frauds in Subsidiaries ofJapanese companies in Asia – Casestudy of Internal Control Deficienciesand Fraud
Mr Yasuhide Fujii - Partner of KPMG
Thailand, Regional Head of GJP ASEAN
11:45 Panel discussion

Mr. Ha Vu Dinh - Audit Director of KPMG
VietnamModerator:

09:50 Panel discussion
Moderator:

Mr. Tran Xuan Nam – Vice Director ofVietnam CFO Club, Vice Chairman of
VCFO Academic Council

Panellists:

Mr. Hiroshi Yaguchi
Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Bach
Mr. Ha Vu Dinh
Dr. Le Dang Doanh

10:05 Coffee and Networking Break

Panellists:

Mr. Duong Hai – Standing Vice
Director of Vietnam CFO Club,Partner of Vietnam Partners LLC
Mr Chris Southam
Mr Rick Yvanovich
Mr Yasuhide Fujii

12:00 End of Session

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SPEAKERMr. Nguyen Ngoc Bach

Mr. Hiroshi Yaguchi

Asia President of IAFEI
Founder & Director of Vietnam CFO
Club
Chairman & CEO of AsiaInvest Group

Chairman of IAFEI
Founder & Executive Director ofJapan Association for CFOs

Mr. Bach is a gifted expert in corporate governanceand finance. He has worked for over 20 years infinancial area including 11 years as Chief Financial
Officerformultinational
corporations
andtelecommunication firms in Vietnam (TNT, HutchisonTelecom, HT Mobile). Mr Bach was recently promoted
as Deputy Secretary General of Vietnam Associationof Corporate Directors (VACD).
Mr. Bach holds a bachelor’s degree from Hanoi
University of Finance and Accounting, and an MBAfrom Pacific Western University (USA).

Hiroshi Yaguchi helped establish the CFO Headquarters
Co., Ltd. in 2000 and served as its president. He thenco-founded the Japan Association of Chief Financial
Officers (JACFO) where he served as a Member of theBoard until he was appointed its Executive Directorsince 2003.
Mr. Yaguchi earned his degree at the University ofTokyo, Department of Economics. He joined SumitomoBank in 1989 and became the Deputy Chief ofPersonnel Department in 1996. He served as theDeputy Manager of Hibiya Branch and was selected asthe Deputy Chief of Corporate Department in 1999.

Dr. Le Dang Doanh

Mr. Duong Hai

Senior Fellow of the Economic College
Member of the Scholar Board ofCentral Institute of EconomicManagement

Standing Vice Director of Vietnam
CFO ClubPartner of Vietnam Partners LLC

Dr Le was a board member of the (private,independent) Institute of Development Studies, Hanoi,
from November 2007 until September 2009. Before
that, Dr Le was a senior economist and advisor to theMinister of Planning and Investment until his
retirement in July 2007.
Dr Le has also been a member of the (advisory)
research commission of the Prime Minister of Vietnam
from 1993 until June 2006; the president of theCentral Institute of Economic Management (CIEM)
between 1993 and 2001; vice-president of the CIEM
from 1990 to 1993; and the senior economist to thegeneral secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam
Nguyen Van Linh from 1989 until 1990.
In addition, Dr Le has lectured at universities andacademies in Hanoi, and spent time as a visitingprofessor at the Nihon University in Tokyo. He hasserved on various boards and committees, including:the commission for state-owned enterprise reform; theresearch group of the Prime Minister for socioeconomic and administration reform; the commission
for finance and monetary policy; the Vietnam-Japan
Research Council; and the commission for finance andforeign exchange in East and South East Asia of theMinistry of Finance of Japan, nominated by Minister
Myazawa.

Mr. Hai has 20 year experience in financial
management in banking, manufacturing and trading.
He served as CFO at Citibank Vietnam, where heprovided local accounting and tax advice to develop
and launch new banking products to meet the needsof Vietnamese corporations, multi-national andregional companies. He was also responsible formeasuring profitability of the bank’s products andcustomer segments and ensuring accuracy of theManagement Information System.
He was an advisor to several Vietnamese state-owned
commercial banks and joint stock banks in bankbusiness strategy; centralized fund management
systems and transfer pricing rate mechanisms;
management information system and related
operations and technology; debt restructuring; riskmanagement; core banking system and bankoperational areas. Beside Citibank Vietnam, Mr. Hai
also served as CFO of AVON Vietnam and a group oflocal companies.
Mr. Hai received his MBA from Maastricht School ofManagement (the Netherlands). He holds a BA in
accounting and finance from Hanoi University ofFinance and Accountancy and a BA in laws from
University of Social Science and Humanity in Hanoi.

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SPEAKERMr Christopher Southam

Mr. Tran Xuan Nam

Finance Director – S.E.Asia Emerging
Markets Microsoft Operations Pte Ltd,Singapore

Vice Director of Vietnam CFO Club
Vice Chairman of VCFO AcademicCouncilChris Southam qualified as a Chartered Accountant inUK.

Mr. Tran Xuan Nam, Maastricht MBA with more than
28 years experience as Senior Management, Financial
Director of multinational companies such as Unilever,Coca-Cola, Scancom & some local large, successfulcorporations. He was a CEO of Saigon Paper, a local
large corporation, one of 12 companies of ASEAN has
got a ward “The most admired enterprise” at the endof year 2007, granted by ASEAN Business ConsultantCommittee.
He is also a lecturer of International Professional
Accounting Organization – ACCA, some recognized US& Australian Universities.
He is an author of some recognized books such as
Financial Accounting, Management Accounting,International Accounting Applied in Viet Nam, Financialmanagement, Accounting & Taxation Handbook andSecurities Investment Analysis.
He also works as a consultant for some local
international companies & organizations.

Mr Rick Yvanovich,

Mr Yasuhide Fujii

As Regional Finance Director, Chris Southam leads
Microsoft’s regional finance organization for theEmerging Markets across the unique and diverse
geography of S.E.Asia. Responsibilities include end toend finance management and operations with specificfocus on driving growth in a compliant environment.
Prior to being named to this role, Southam was
Financial Director in the Sales Marketing and Services
Group in Japan; responsible for business insight andincreasing the level of rigour, predictability,accountability and visibility of FP&A processes across
the Japan subsidiary, the largest sub outside the US.
Before joining the Japan Subsidiary, Southam wasmanager of the Microsoft East Asia Regional R&D
Finance function.

Founder & CEO of TRG International
FCMA, FCPA (Aust.)

Rick is a Chartered Management Accountant with 30years of diverse experiences including: Hospitality, Oil& Gas, Telecommunications, Financial Services, HighTechnology, Defense, Manufacturing, Not for Profit,Breweries, Property Development and Professional
Services and the Accounting Profession.
Rick’s first overseas posting was as Finance Managerfor BP China followed by a posting to Vietnam in1990 as Finance Manager to BP Exploration. Rickhelped established BP’s various Vietnam operations inExploration, Lubricants and LPG and has held various
Finance and Directorship roles with BP in Asia.
Rick is the Chairman of AMCHAM HCMC IT
Committee, a Board Member of the South-East Asia
Regional Board for the Chartered Institute ofManagement Accountants

Partner of KPMG Thailand
Regional Head of GJP ASEANCPA Japan
He is an equity partner in KPMG assurance businesswith over 20 year’s experience at former Arthur
Andersen Tokyo office and KPMG International.
Developed KPMG services for the Japanese investors in
the region with providing accounting, tax, legal andother operational consulting during his 8 years’
assignment in Singapore and Malaysia from 1990. Also
engaged in M&A projects in Japan to provide financial
due diligence services and corporate valuation
services.
Since 2001, he has been stationed at KPMG office inThailand and serving in Business Advisory toconcentrate on business restructuring, internal control
related services, and he is currently acting as theregional leader of GJP in ASEAN region.

VIETNAM CFO FORUM 2011SPEAKER
Mr Ha Vu Dinh

Audit Director of KPMG Vietnam
ACCA, CPA

Dinh is an audit director in the Ho Chi Minh City officeof KPMG Vietnam. He has been working with KPMG
for more than eight years and was involved in a wide
range of external audit assignments which include
statutory audits under local regulations and annualaudits of financial statements of local andmultinational clients which require awareness ofVietnamese Accounting Standards, International
Financial Reporting Standards and group systems.
He is responsible for serving clients in the real estateindustry. Dinh also has significant experience inserving clients in manufacturing, husbandry, feed
meal and seafood industries.

Together with other audit directors, Dinh runs annual
training courses for audit partners, directors,managers, assistant managers, seniors and assistants,
as well as induction courses for new joiners. Thosecourses to which his experience and understanding is
pivotal are designed to include updating current
Vietnamese Accounting Standards (VAS) and KPMG
audit methodology training programs.
Aside from audit/audit-related engagements, he wasalso involved in other projects such as financial
diagnostic review, due diligence and assistance inpreparation of the 10-year financial projection. These
projects typically involve detailed financial review(accounting, tax, financial performance, and financial
projection) and operational review (markets andcompetitors, human resources, laws and regulations,
IT systems, risk management, and business plans) ofthe target businesses

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