Marcel Coppini
Marcel Coppini is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and a fellow of the Malta Institute of Accountants. He had a vast and diversified audit career, spanning over forty two years. He moved from one of the leading Big 4 firms, to take key financial and managerial roles in Industry. After 12 years, he went back to his roots in 2006, setting up and heading the Quality Assurance Unit, which he headed, until he retired in 2016. Since 2016, he has been practising as a freelance Audit Quality, Corporate Governance, and Ethics, consultant for small and medium sized audit entities. He seeks to assist audit practices and their audit teams, to cope better with the challenges brought about by the EU audit reforms which triggered off a total overhaul of the audit regulatory and legal framework and a total revamp of the International Standards on Auditing. Other than carrying out external hot and cold reviews and Compliance review engagements for audit entities, he organises a series of interactive audit training workshops. These focus on remedying the more common pitfalls arising from monitoring visits carried out by the Audit Regulator. Mr Coppini penned a number of technical articles for publication, both locally and overseas. He has been the speaker at a number of Audit Quality Assurance seminars in Malta and abroad, addressing Public Oversight conferences and seminars. Between 2012 and 2018 he was an elected member of the International Assembly of ACCA.