| Meet the ASB Board – Ms. Annalien Carstens |
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Ms. Carstens’ solution specialisms include IFRS, IFRS for SMEs, IPSAS, GRAP, ISAs, ISQM 1 and SCM. She has more than 25 years of experience in the finance field. She has an MCom degree, is a CA(SA), a Registered Auditor, a Chartered Tax Adviser and the Managing Director of Altimax.
In the public sector, Ms. Carstens leads consulting and training projects for all spheres of government. She also managed several projects sponsored by the European Union and other foreign donor agencies.
She served more than 200 private audit firms with firm monitoring reviews, engagement quality and file monitoring reviews, methodology development, policy development, ISQM 1 implementations, CA2025 implementations and professional and trainee training.
Ms. Carstens is the lead director on the external quality assurance of the Auditor General South Africa (AGSA) ISQM 1 implementation. She also serves as pre-issuance reviewer for the AGSA since 2006 for the annual PFMA, MFMA and TVET cycles.
Ms. Carstens serves on the following committees: Member of the Financial Reporting Technical Committee of the Financial Reporting Standards Council. Chairperson of the SAICA Northern Region Public Sector Committee. Member of the SAICA National Public Sector Committee. Public sector representative on both the SAICA Northern Region Council and the SAICA Pretoria District Committee. She was a finalist in both the 2022 and 2023 SAICA Difference Maker awards for the categories of Public Sector and Nation Building respectively.
Ms. Carstens is one of five new Board members at the ASB. Access more information about the ASB Board here. |
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