Elizabeth Smith

SIA/Finsia qualification

Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment

Career overview

Elizabeth has over 17 years of professional experience providing audit and corporate finance services. In this time she has delivered a broad range of services including valuations, independent expert reports, financial due diligence, initial public offerings and mergers and acquisition advice.

Elizabeth has worked across a wide variety of industries, including construction and engineering, education, financial services, healthcare, infrastructure, leisure and gaming, manufacturing, mining, property and telecommunications.

Current role

In her current role, Elizabeth undertakes:

• business and share valuations
• independent expert reports
• intangible asset valuations
• valuations for tax purposes
• valuation of hybrid securities
• employee option valuations
• litigation support assignments.

Contribution to Kaplan Professional (formerly SIA and Finsia)

Elizabeth is an exam and assignment marker for the FIN230 Mergers and Acquisitions and FIN224 Applied Valuation postgraduate subjects.

What Elizabeth says about Kaplan Professional’s postgraduate courses

“The Graduate Diploma is the best course I have ever undertaken. The subjects are practical, relevant and commercial. I would strongly recommend the course to anyone wanting a career in finance.”