NIKOLAY GARNEV BUILDS ACCOUNTING CAREER IN CHALLENGING BULGARIA, AS COUNTRY FORGES MODERN ECONOMY

  BUILDING a career in auditing in what is often regarded as the most corrupt country in the European Union (EU) is not for the faint-hearted, but that is what Nikolay Garnev, EY manging partner for Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo, has done. Speaking to Accounting & Business at his office in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia, he recalled the time, when 14 years ago, he was flying home from London, having gained a newly minted ACCA qualification: “The flight attendant handed me a ‘martenitsa’ [a worn decoration made from twined red and white ...


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