Sarah Bate

Sarah joined KPMG in July 2013 and is a Director in KPMG’s Accounting Advisory Services team based in Wellington.

She is a Chartered Accountant with accounting experience gained across a range of accounting firms (3 of the Big 4), and she also has accounting standard setting experience gained when working as a staff member of the accounting standard setting team at the XRB and prior to that, NZICA (now CA ANZ).

Sarah has significant accounting and technical experience with NZ IFRS and PBE Standards.

She provides accounting advice to a wide range of clients and her particular interests lie in standard setting, the implementation of PBE Standards to the Public Sector and the Not-for-Profit Sector and accounting for cloud computing arrangements in both the public and private sectors.