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9:00 - 12:00
Workshop One
Road to Certification: Developing a Plan, Conducting the Phases of Certification, and Ensuring Sustainability
Nitin Khare, Senior Manager, Risk Advisory Services, BDO Dunwoody LLP
Mathew Kinver, Consultant, Risk Advisory Services, BDO Dunwoody LLP
This workshop will offer practical examples and information on the various phases of certification. It will also
offer guidance on addressing common challenges and constraints of organizations in meeting certification requirements. Areas covered include:
- Planning and scoping
- Performing a risk assessment
- Integrating company-level controls and IT general controls
- Using a risk-based approach to do the "right" amount of work
- Documentation and walkthroughs
- Incorporating control categories and assertions
- Evaluating design effectiveness and determining key controls
- Remediation of controls
- Strategies for testing operating effectiveness
- Reliance on internal audit
- Overcoming resource limitations
1:00 - 4:00
Workshop Two
Writing the MD&A: Reporting on Internal Control to Investors
Stuart Hartley, FCA, President, FocusROI Inc.
As a key document supplementing your financial statements and reporting package, an MD&A report is crucial
to communicating forward-looking information with your shareholders. It is a core disclosure document for business
performance, operational risk factors, internal control weaknesses, and changes in accounting policies. Increased
regulatory focus on MD&A statements has created a sense of urgency among financial professionals to learn how to craft
high-quality statements.
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.
- New disclosure requirements for CEO CFO Certification
- Disclosing material weaknesses in Control
- Avoiding the most common problems
- Risk disclosures
- Ensuring that you are performing due diligence
- Possible IFRS disclosures
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