IFRS Readiness Assessment – How Do You Rate?
A Series of Special Complimentary, Web-Based Presentations for Your Industry Sector including:
Oil & Gas, Mining, Financial Services & Credit Unions, Technology, Industrial, General Business, and Investment Funds
- Oil and Gas
Tuesday, February 2, 2010, Sixty minute session starting at 10am MST
(12pm EST, 9am PST)
Download PDF IFRS Readiness Assessment - Oil & Gas Brochure
To register for the free Oil & Gas session please Click Here
- Mining Sector
Tuesday, March 23, 2010, Sixty minute session starting at 10am PST
(1pm EST, 12pm CST)
Download PDF IFRS Readiness Assessment – Mining Brochure
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- Financial Services & Credit Unions
Thursday, March 25, 2010, Sixty minute session starting at 1pm EST
(10am PST, 11am MST, 12pm CST, 2pm AST)
Download PDF IFRS Readiness Assessment – Financial Services & Credit Unions
To register for the free Financial Services & Credit Union session please Click Here
- Technology Sector
Thursday, April 8, 2010, Sixty minute session starting at 1pm EST
(10am PST, 11am MST, 12pm CST)
Download PDF IFRS Readiness Assessment – Technology Sector
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- Industrial Sector
Tuesday, April 13, 2010, Sixty minute session starting at 1pm EST
(10am PST, 11am MST, 12pm CST)
Download PDF IFRS Readiness Assessment – Industrial Sector
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- General Business
Thursday, April 15, 2010, Sixty minute session starting at 1pm EST
(10am PST, 11am MST, 12pm CST)
Download PDF IFRS Readiness Assessment – General Business Sector
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- Investment Funds
Thursday, April 22, 2010, Sixty minute session starting at 1pm EST
(10am PST, 12pm CST)
Download PDF IFRS Readiness Assessment – Investment Funds Sector
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SESSION OVERVIEW
Benefits of Attending:
- Rapidly assess your organization’s IFRS readiness and quickly identify gaps in your transition plan
- Get organized for required MD&A disclosures
- Accelerate your IFRS transition activities
- Get visibility into the IFRS related risks associated with internal controls over financial reporting and CEO/CFO NI 52-109 certification during the 2010 transition year
- Familiarize yourself with industry leading tools to streamline your IFRS activities and reduce the transition workload
- Convenient session format allows you to access the session over the web
Who Should Attend?
CFOs, Audit Committee Members, Controllers, IFRS Project Managers and all who are involved with easing the transition from GAAP-to-IFRS.
SESSION AGENDA
- A quick overview of significant IFRS standards that will impact your industry sector including IFRS 1 – First Time Adoption, IAS 36 – Impairment, IAS 16 – PP&E, and relevant industry-specific IFRS standards
- IFRS readiness assessment essentials and framework
- Do you have an IFRS transition plan – Signed, sealed and in the process of being delivered?
- The need for formalized draft IFRS policies – To memo or not to memo
- Evaluation of IFRS 1 elections and impact assessment – Can you substantiate your IFRS decision making and impact of IFRS 1 elections and standard changes?
- The financial impact of IFRS – Dollars and sense. Your IFRS related adjustments – What are they?
- Evaluation of changes in the areas of disclosures, internal controls, systems and data and more – Pretty straightforward – or perhaps not. Which is it?
- Review and Approvals – How engaged in the transition process are your Audit Committee and your External Auditor?
- Handling your 2010 Transition Financials – Approaches to managing GAAP and IFRS opening transition balance sheet comparatives. Which path will you take?
- Developing IFRS Disclosures and Notes – Ready, set, write. Are you ready for the level of disclosure that IFRS poses plus the added burden of transition disclosures?
- Last but not – IFRS Literacy. Where do your finance team and audit committee stand with respect to IFRS skills and knowledge?
- What to do if your IFRS transition is lagging
- Q&A Session & Wrap-Up
OPTIONAL SOLUTION SESSION:
(Upon completion of Readiness Assessment Session) – 20 Minutes
- Review of the IFRS PARTNER GAAP-to-IFRS transition software solution for your industry sector
- Rapid planning and scoping
- Preformatted IFRS policies across all IFRS standards along with impact assessment evaluation tools
- IFRS transition financial statement tools for 2010 GAAP and IFRS numbers and relevant disclosures
- Optional customizable IFRS notes add-on module
- Management and audit committee reporting
- External auditor reporting
SESSION MATERIALS
Attendees will receive a copy of the session PowerPoint presentation materials used by the session leader.
SESSION LEADER
Catherine Connally, Certified Internal Auditor, and President of
Issues Central, Inc..
Catherine has over twenty-five years experience in financial compliance, internal audit and executive management. She began her career in the finance departments of Atlantic Richfield and British Petroleum and has since assisted over eight hundred organizations around the world on financial compliance and transition projects. She is an authority on both IFRS and NI 52-109 transition and compliance activities. Catherine is a co-author and primary architect of Canada’s leading governance and financial compliance products including COMPLIANCE PARTNER® for NI 52-109 and SOX 404, as well as IFRS PARTNER for streamlining and accelerating the transition from GAAP to IFRS.
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