IFRS Overview

Duration: 2 Days

The programme answers questions such as:

1. What are the timing, transition, recognition, measurement, presentation, and disclosure requirements of IFRS 1?
2. What are the available policy options and their short-term and long-term consequences?
3. How can the costs and benefits of various courses of action be determined?
4. In what ways will systems require modification in order to implement IFRS?
5. What are the most common pitfalls that occur during transition to IFRS and how can they be avoided?

Course Summary

This course is a step by step guide through the technical issues involved in understanding and applying IFRS. The programme topics, presented through the use of live case studies.

Course Benefits

  • Apply the complex requirements of IFRS 1
  • Understand the available policy options and their short-term and long-term consequences
  • Communicate the impact of first-time adoption of IFRS to stakeholders
  • Discern the costs and benefits of various courses of action
  • Determine the system modifications and other changes that will be required in order to implement IFRS

Teaching Method

  • Live group instruction
  • Description and explanation of IFRS technical requirements in clear and simple language Identification of the critical issues involved in the transition to IFRS
  • Extensive use of case studies, model financial statements and checklists
  • All participants receive copies of the presentation slides and other course materials

Course Summary

Topic includes the following:

  • Financial statement presentation and specific disclosures (segment reporting, events after the balance sheet date, cash flow statement, contingencies, accounting policies, changes in accounting estimates, correction of errors, and discontinued operations)
  • Revenue recognition
  • Recognition and measurement of assets (property, plant & equipment and intangible assets) including the accounting treatment of impairment and assets held for sale

 

  • Provisions/ non-financial liabilities (including those for employee benefits) and other liabilities
  • Share-based payment
  • Inventories
  • Consolidated financial statements, including special purpose entities
  • Financial instruments, including the disclosure requirements in IFRS 7
  • First-time adoption of IFRS
  • Discussion of new developments.