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9:00 - 12:00
Workshop One
Writing the MD&A: Hands-on Tools to Make Your Job Easier!
Stuart Hartley, President, Focus ROI Inc.
As a key disclosure document, an MD&A report is crucial to communicating with your shareholders, but it is
also difficult to write effectively. How does your MD&A measure up? How will IFRS implementation affect the way your MD&A
is constructed? Using real-world examples, this workshop will give you the knowledge needed to easily write a dynamic and
accurate MD&A under both current GAAP standards and IFRS.
- Learn about the upcoming changes in the rules for writing your MD&A
- Avoiding the most common problems
- Review of off-balance sheet reporting and internal control regulations
- Ensuring that you are performing your due diligence
1:00 - 4:00
Workshop Two
How to Develop an IFRS Transition Plan for Your Company
Chris Thatcher, Senior Manager, Audit, Deloitte and Touche LLP
This workshop will guide you step by step on how to get started with your transition plan. Experts will provide you with examples of other countries' adoption of IFRS, and what you can learn from their successes and challenges.
- Key milestones: 2008/2009 financial statement disclosures of convergence
plan
- Experiences of other countries' adoption of IFRS: what will be different for Canada and what lessons can we learn?
- Creating a transition plan for your company:
- first-time adoption of IFRS
- how the IFRS conversion will impact financial reporting
- and other areas of the organization
- allocating resources
- preparing a plan
- Implementing and monitoring a transition plan
- Focusing on business impacts: training, education, and communication
- Perfecting investor relations
- Interact with peers and get advice from those currently involved in
the conversion process
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