Accountants possess critical skills sets for assisting businesses and individuals undergoing financial difficulties. Robyn Erskine, Partner at Brooke Bird, provides insights into these skills, and also sheds light on common problems associated with financial distress for individuals and businesses.
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Robyn Erskine

Robyn is a partner in Brooke Bird, a specialist restructuring insolvency and turnaround firm located in Melbourne Australia and has been actively involved in the public practice sector for over 30 years.

Robyn previously served as a member of the IFAC Small and Medium Practices Committee, having been nominated by CPA Australia and Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.

Robyn is a director of CPA Australia having been appointed to the board in 2017. She has served on CPA Australia’s Victorian Division and Victorian Public Practice Committee and in 2014 Robyn was awarded the Henry Fox Award for outstanding service to Public Practice in Victoria.

In 2011 Robyn became the first female to be appointed as the National President of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Australia, now known as the Australian Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association (ARITA) and served as a director of ARITA until May 2019. In 2017 Robyn was awarded Life Membership to ARITA for long, dedicated and distinguished service to ARITA and the Profession.

Robyn is a current councilor of the Australian Institute of Credit Management’s Victorian Tasmanian Division.

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