IFRS Toolkit: Day One/ Introduction to IFRS

This course provides an introduction to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). It will benefit those who are now required to prepare their financial statements under IFRS, and will also give an insight into the practical issues that may impact upon those entities adopting IFRS in the near future.

WHAT WILL I GET OUT OF IT?
• a succinct introduction to IFRS, along with brief discussion of differences to UK GAAP
• awareness of the practical issues relating to first time adoption of IFRS
• sharing of issues encountered in the adoption of IFRS.

KEY FEATURES
• who is required to apply IFRS
• structure and style of IFRS
• requirements of first-time adoption of IFRS
• practical issues once IFRS has been adopted.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Finance directors who will need to communicate the impact of IFRS to the board and shareholders, accountants who are required to apply the transition to IFRS and those considering adoption of IFRS in the near future.

LECTURER
Philip Bradbury ACMA, Training Consultant, ATC International