Financial Reporting and Asset Accounting: Modern Methods and International Standards

27 Jan 2025 - 31 Jan 2025 | Vienna, Austria

Course overview:

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) has become a global accounting language. There are currently over 165 countries that require or permit the use of IFRS for listed companies. The correct adoption of IFRS promises organisations in all the sectors many benefits including greater consistency, comparability and transparency of financial reporting resulting in enhanced investor confidence across the globe.

The workshop will be useful for: Staff in finance department, Internal and external auditors, Regulators, Financial and credit analysts who review financial statements and sustainability reports. A basic understanding of accounting as per any national GAAP is a pre-requisite.

By end of the workshop, the participants will: Obtain an in-depth understanding of the principles in key IFRSs as applicable to corporates and financial institutions; Evaluate the impact on financial statements of the application of IFRSs, including recent changes to existing standards; Analyse the impact of rising interest rates and inflation on IFRS financial statements.

Course facilitator:

trainer
Kirill Slavin

Kirill Slavin is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, holds an MBA from Cambridge University and is an Associate Member of the Cambridge University Centre for International Business and Management (CIBAM). He has got twenty years of experience in accounting and finance gained in senior positions in, inter alia, Wang Laboratories, PepsiCo Inc., Deloitte & Touche, Kaspersky Lab and DiamondCluster International (now PwC’s Diamond Advisory Services) in London, Vienna and Moscow. Kirill Slavin is a Director at Slavin and Associates Limited, a London based management consultancy specialising in business strategy and company value management. He regularly speaks in Cambridge and London both academically and to business executive audiences. His areas of expertise include IFRS, management accounting, corporate finance, risk management and corporate governance.