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"The high performance finance professional – global challenges and opportunities" is the theme of ACCA Managing Human Capital Conference Series 2009 which is held today.  Bringing together employers from a range of sectors, this programme aims to explore the global challenges and opportunities organisations face in recruiting, developing and retaining high performance finance professionals.

In this conference, ACCA also presents the survey findings of the report "Crisis and Finance – The CFO's New Environment in Mainland China and Hong Kong".  This survey was conducted by Economist Intelligence Unit for ACCA with 256 finance executives surveyed in Mainland China and Hong Kong.  Through this survey, it reveals that the role of CFO has gained more importance today compared to a year ago. 

Guest speakers of this conference represent the top notch elites in the finance and human resource arenas.  Distinguished speakers include: Tzeitel J Fernandes, Practice Leader, Executive Compensation & Total Rewards of Hewitt Associates LLC; Darwin Li, Vice President, Finance, People Resource & Governance of McDonald's Restaurants (HK) Ltd; Anthony Thompson, Managing Director, HK and Southern China of Michael Page International; Kern Lim, Vice President of Finance of The Venetian Macao-Resort-Hotel and Tony Osude, Head of Professional Development of ACCA.

Judy Wong, President of ACCA Hong Kong said, "Enhancing high performance of all our employees has been crucial to the growth, success and sustainability of each organisation.   This is particularly true for accounting and finance professionals as we are shouldering more responsibilities and the expectation from the public is higher than ever.  Our expertise should be value-adding to stakeholders and the organisations."