Rolan Micallef Attard, FIA, CPA, MBA(eBusiness), AAg

Accountant                                                                             Official website: YesItMatters.com

Rolan is an independent accountant and warrant holder engaged in public practice as a sole practitioner regulated by the Accountancy Profession ACT (Cap. 281) specializing primarily in Micro businesses, family run businesses, SME’s and co-operative societies, and acts as auditor, liquidator, management consultant, financial controller, mediator, IT and e-Business consultant.  He has been in this field since 1982, and founded his private practice in 1992.

Warrants held

Certified Public Accountant (1990 - )

Holder of a practicing certificate to act as auditor (1990 - )

Academic Memberships

Fellow of The Malta Institute of Accountants (1994 - )

Associate Member of the Institute for the Management of Information Systems (1993-2008)

Executive Masters of Business Administration (e-Business) (2004 - )

Associate Member of The Malta Chamber of Agrologists (2009 - )

Directorships in commercial entities

Director & co-owner of Moore Stephens Fiduciary Limited, a licenced company established to provide fiduciary services under the Trusts & Trustees ACT (Cap. 331) of the laws of Malta

Director of Computation Services Limited, a company which provides management & IT consultancy

CAO and Member of Farm Advisory Services Co-op Limited, a co-operative society, providing consultancy services to farmers and livestock breeders by rendering professional advice on statutory management requirements and the good agricultural and environmental EU regulations, occupational safety standards, observance of good farming practices, code of good agricultural practices, health and safety standards, compliance with Directives falling under cross compliance, development and obligations CAP payments and rural development measures, aid in the compilation of application forms, farm management plans of rural development measures.

President and Member of Knowledge Matters Co-op Limited, a co-operative society offering expertise and skills to any person or persons through experience and educational programs, developed to deliver the understanding of any subject, theoretically and/or practically, utilizing cognitive and pedagogical processes of perception, learning, communication, association and reasoning, with the aim of providing an adequate understanding of any subject with the ability to use that subject for any specific purpose. The scope of the co-operative is to assist foreign medical students attending the University of Malta and similar institutions by providing them with an interactive targeted program of Medical-Maltese.  The co-operative is also targeting other students not necessary medical students, who require the knowledge of Medical-Maltese to be able to understand the communication between the Maltese speaking patient and the medical professional within state-owned care centres, hospitals and private care centres.  The co-operative is also targeting other Foreign renowned Universities established in Malta and who require such services.

Co-operative Movement involvement

Malta Co-operative Federation is a non-profit, non-political Co-operative Federation set up to operate in a transparent and democratic manner and in the true spirit of international co-operative principles and values as promulgated by the International Co-operative Alliance and to assist cooperative societies in all economic sectors and represent them in a united voice locally and internationally.

Rolan serves on the Council as Secretary General as of its launch on the 9th November 2012 and currently also occupies the post of CEO of the Federation.

Central Co-operative Fund (CCF) is established by the Co-operative Societies ACT (Cap. 442) of the Laws of Malta, wherein every co-operative society registered in Malta contributes 5% of it annual surplus to the Fund.  The main objectives of the Committee are to manage the funds and to promote co-operative education, training, research, audit and the Co-operative Movement in Malta in general.

Rolan served on the CCF as a committee member between 2008 and 1st February 2013, when he resigned. He was nominated directly by local co-operative societies to represent them on this committee and was subsequently appointed by the Minister responsible for co-operatives for two consecutive terms.

Cooperatives Europe - The European Region of the International Co-operative Alliance representing: 161 individual co-operative organisations, from 37 countries out of 42 countries of the European Region, from 6 European Sector Organisations out of 7.  Representing a force for economic and social change of: 160,000 co-operative enterprises, 123 million members, 5.4 million jobs.  The biggest membership organisation in Europe promoting the co-operative model of enterprise for sustainable economic progress with social objectives.

In 2010, Rolan was elected Member of the European Audit and Control Committee (EACC).

Koperattivi Malta is a non-political organisation set up by the Co-operative Societies ACT (Cap. 442) of the Laws of Malta.

Between 2008-2011, Rolan served as Council Member and Secretary General of the Federation.

The Co-operatives Board is a government institution established to register and regulate co-operative societies under the Co-operative Societies ACT (Cap. 442) of the Laws of Malta and to advise the Minister responsible on all co-operative aspects.

Appointed by Government as advisor to the Ministers responsible for co-operatives, Rolan served on the Co-operatives Board for over eight years (1999-2007) and was co-legislator for the redrafting of the Co-operative Societies ACT, 2001.

Keynote speaker on co-operative matters and financial aspects of the Co-operatives Societies ACT, Rolan has delivered various talks in collaboration with Agenzija SUPPORT, the Co-operatives Board, Koperattivi Malta - the Federation of Maltese Co-operatives (formely known as APEX), the Institute of Agriculture within the University of Malta, The Malta Institute of Accountants, the Ministry for Social Policy, Malta University Services Limited, Cooperatives Europe, the International Raiffeisen Union & the German Co-operative and Raiffeisen Confederation and Verdala International School. 

Book contributions: “Koperattivi Twaqqif u Tmexxija” Translation: Co-operatives Formation and Management – Galea F. (2002), ISBN: 99932-0-169-3

Involvement in other committees

Founder member of the Malta Chamber of Agrologists

Member on the Competitiveness and Consumer Affairs committee of the Malta-EU Steering & Action Committee (MEUSAC)

MBA(eBusiness) dissertation

‘Vade Mecum’ for the Web Analyst – Implementing successful e-Business initiatives via on-line customer related Web Metrics

Rolan has delivered talks and contributed articles in the media on Web Metrics.

Publications

‘European Co-operative Banking’ , Koperattivi Malta, (February 2011), Issue 24, pp. 6-7

‘Consultation Paper on Co-operative Societies 2010’, Koperattivi Malta, (October 2010)

‘The Consultation Process on Cooperatives’, Koperattivi, Malta, (August 2010), Issue 23, pp. 7-9

‘The Social Dialogue Process and Koperattivi Malta’, Koperattivi, Malta, (January 2010), Issue 22, pp. 10-11

‘Consistency between examiners in the final anatomy exam 2008-2009’, (Stabile I., Micallef Attard R.) Malta Medical Journal, (November 2009), Malta, Volume 21 Supplement, pp.63-64

‘Cooperatives and European Social Dialogue’, MEUSAC News, Malta, (October 2009), Issue 22, pp. 3

‘The role of producers’ organisations in the successful operation of FAS in Malta: lessons learnt and future perspectives’, (Attard G. P., Sammut S.J., Micallef Attard R.) Theory and practice of advisory work in a time of turbulences, (September 2009), Perugia, Italy,  pp. 27-30, ISBN: 97888-6254-035-3

‘Online Measurement Matters’, i-Tech, Times of Malta (August 2005), Malta, pp. 3

‘Vade Mecum for the Web Analyst – Implementing successful e-Business initiatives via on-line customer related Web Metrics’, (July 2004), Malta

Other international involvements

For over twelve years (1993-2005) Rolan has been an active committee member and an official of the Institute for the Management of Information Systems (Malta Branch) with the mission to further the cause of professionalism within the information systems industry and to increase the awareness of the public, as individuals or as organisations of the advances, implications and potential within the Maltese information systems industry.