IFRS 101: The Essentials - IFRS Quarterly Webcast Series

A seismic shift is about to take place within the accounting standards area. International harmonization is approaching and preparers, practitioners, educators and CPAs of all stripes need to start today to remain on top of this juggernaut.

This Webcast On-Demand gives you step one in a multi-step educational process to get practitioners and financial managers up to speed in all aspects of IFRS implementation. In this Webcast On-Demand experts will discuss:

• Background and history on the IFRS convergence efforts
• Current status of worldwide adoption of IFRS
• The “just published” SEC Roadmap
• Types of entities potentially impacted by IFRS
• Summary of critical differences between IFRS & U.S. GAAP
• Financial statement presentation
• Consolidations
• Revenue Recognition
• Share-based payments
• Pensions
• Inventory
• Long-lived assets
• Intangibles
• Impairment
• Liabilities
• Income taxes
• Expected future developments worth noting (IASB/FASB convergence, global accounting convergence, etc.)

D.J. Gannon, CPA
Partner
Deloitte & Touche LLP

Nancy Salisbury, CPA
Partner
Ernst & Young LLP

Robert Tarola, CPA
President
Right Advisory LLC
(Former CFO of W.R. Grace)

John F. Hudson, CPA
President
Hudson Consulting Group, LLC

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Webcast-On-Demand System Requirements

Though AICPA Online Learning will operate in a variety of configurations, only the configuration described below is supported by our technicians:

• Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP operating systems, or later versions
• Macromedia Flash 6 or higher
• Adobe® Reader® 7 or higher
• One of the following browsers: 
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or higher 
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.5 or higher