Eliza Tigranyan, MBA, is a lecturer of Accounting at American University of Armenia since 2014. Ms. Tigranyan is a Fellow Chartered Certified Accountant and a member of Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) of Glasgow, UK, Management Consultant and former Armenian Licensed Auditor. She upgraded her professional knowledge in several Western European countries, USA and in the University of Cambridge, Judge Institute of Management Studies (UK). By her education, Ms. Tigranyan also Engineer of Computer Sciences and has a degree in Journalism.
Ms. Tigranyan has over 27 years of combined experience in corporate finance, strategic business planning, financial management and forecasting, financial modelling, business and investment valuations, feasibility and sector studies, value chain analysis. She also has extensive experience in transaction support services and enterprise, project and NGO audit, internal audit; experience in loan disbursement, grant making activities and monitoring projects after getting financed.
In addition, Ms. Tigranyan has conducted vocational trainings for managers of established and start-up companies, for the clients and staff of international organizations and financial institutions. Ms. Tigranyan has extensive practice in project and company management and employment records in several international consulting companies and organizations. She worked for 17 years in Grant Thornton in Corporate Advisory Department and had a position of Senior Manager.
Geography of her work experience covers Armenia, Russia, Georgia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, France, the Netherlands, Austria, Germany and US.
She has knowledge of International Standards on Auditing (ISA), International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), Armenian Accounting Standards, Financial Reporting and Armenian Tax regulations, Transaction Advisory Methodology, International Valuation Standards and Methodology of Business and Equity Valuations.