Tuesday, 1 November, 2011
9:00am Eastern Time
13:00pm London Summer Time
14:00pm Paris Summer Time
Webex Event Center – Internet Conference

Hosted by international and local IPSAS experts from Issues Central, Inc. (Toronto, Canada)

To register for this no charge event, please click here

• Introductions
• Overall Planning
• Transition scoping
• Methodology for implementation
• What is driving the decision to adopt IPSAS?
• Choices and Their Impacts on Implementation
• What Should the Team Look Like?
• Cash versus Accrual Methods
• Budget Reporting Implications
• Treatment of Fixed Assets under IPSAS
• Demonstration of IPSAS PARTNER Transition Solution
• Closing Remarks and Questions and Answers

The seminar is a no-charge event with attendance restricted solely to government entities and non-profit organisations. Limit of three attendees per organization.  

Marc Neal, IPSAS PARTNER Product Manager - Issues Central (Sarajevo, Bosnia)

Marc Neal has over 27 years of experience in accounting and executive financial and project management roles.

His international accounting experience includes ad Deputy Director Finance for the Supply Division and Agency of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In that role he successfully transitioned NATO from cash accounting to full accruals accounting using IPSAS.  The project deliverables included application standards for the 21 reporting entities, and sample disclosure notes that would be adapted to individual entity reporting requirements.

This four year implementation of IPSAS also involved dealing with the following related issues: refining and implementation of new projects both IT and construction related; handling change management issues related to internal development projects; successful implementation Oracle 7 ERP solutions; establishment of Activity Based Costing (ABC); review of contracts, MOUs and implementing agreements; oversaw the execution of operational budgets in excess of 1.5 billion Euros;  providing internal financial management reports for the use of the board of directors and senior management; and lastly the management of 32 staff.

Marc is a graduate of the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA).

 

Cathy Connally, President - Issues Central (Toronto, Canada)

Catherine started her career in the finance departments of Atlantic Richfield and British Petroleum and has over twenty-five years experience in financial transition and compliance management, internal audit and executive management. She has worked with over eight hundred organizations around the world on financial compliance and transition projects. She is an authority on both IFRS and NI 52-109 activities. Catherine is a co-author and primary architect of Canada's leading governance and financial compliance products including IFRS PARTNER for streamlining and accelerating the transition from GAAP to IFRS, as well as CFO PARTNER for NI 52-109 and SOX 404.

 

Charley Best, Vice-President - Issues Central (Toronto, Canada)

Charley Best has over 25 years of experience in executive management and consulting roles across the manufacturing, technology, and services sectors. He is an authority on the application of sound project management techniques to complex projects such as the transition to international financial reporting standards (IFRS) in various national settings. At Issues Central, Inc. (ICI) Charley has organized the company’s IFRS campaigns across Canada, the United States and abroad to bring over 200 companies to the new IFRS standards. Charley has worked extensively with companies and regulators in Canada, the United States, South Africa, and recently Nigeria, to develop and deliver methodologies and tools to streamline costs and time-to-comply for areas such as IFRS transition, Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002,  NI 52-109, and Executive Compensation Disclosure. He is in charge of ICI’s IFRS activities in Nigeria and since November 2010 he and his team have provided IFRS education and training to over 100 organizations including regulators, NSE listed firms, government entities and external auditors. He is also the main project architect behind the IFRS Transition Program series. Charley is a best-selling author of the Manufacturing Systems Implementation Methodology (MSIM) first published in 1988. He has a BA from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and an MBA from York University in Toronto, Canada.

To Register for the Seminar:
Contact the team at Issues Central
121 Richmond St. West
Suite 1101
Toronto, ON M5H 2K1
CANADA

www.ipsaspartner.com
To register by E-mail:   mneal@issuescentral.com, or
To register by Telephone:   +387 61 482 389 and ask for Marc Neal
Or +1 571 243 8199 and ask for Cathy Connally
                                                 
Or, to pre-register on the web visit the WWW.IPSASPARTNER.COM website under events or at Issues Central webex.