Date: 13 September 2012

Venue: Holiday Inn Manchester Airport

The Holiday Inn Manchester Airport hotel is located in a country setting, just off the M56 motorway and 15 minutes from Manchester city centre. Free on-site parking is available.

Trains from nearby Manchester Airport rail station take you to Warrington, 20 minutes away and Birmingham in 60 minutes.
Address: Altrincham Road, Manchester, SK9 4LR

Speakers: John McRae (HMRC), Darren Leiser (Financial Fluency), Steve Collings (Leavitt Walmsley), Mark Heaton (ACIE) 

CPD units: 7

Fee: £70 Members, £100 Non-Members (including lunch, refreshments and course materials)

SPEAKERS

Steve Collings, Leavitt Walmsley

"Avoiding Errors in Financial Statement Disclosures"

Steve Collings FMAAT FCCA is the audit and technical partner at Leavitt Walmsley Associates Ltd. Steve is also the author of Interpretation and Application of International Standards on Auditing (Wiley March 2011) and IFRS For Dummies (Wiley April 2012). He is also the author of FAQs on IFRS (Wiley December 2012) and has had several articles published in the various accounting media and writes extensively for AccountingWEB.co.uk.

Steve lectures on the CPD circuit to professional accountants on all aspects of financial reporting (UK GAAP and IFRS) and external auditing as well as on Solicitors Accounts Rules.

In 2011, Steve was named Accounting Technician of the Year at the 2011 British Accountancy Awards.

In the presentation will cover:

• Ensuring correct disclosures for the major areas of the financial statements, such as:

• Fixed assets
• Revenue recognition
• Deferred tax
• Related parties
• Provisions and contingencies.

• A look at the most common accounting errors in financial statement preparation.

• Ensuring financial statements can stand up to external scrutiny.

Darren Leiser, Financial Fluency
"The Future of Financial Reporting in the UK"

An experienced auditing and financial reporting lecturer with over two decades of practical experience in accountancy. Darren has over twenty years of experience in the accounting profession and focuses on delivering educational training courses on auditing and accounts, including UK GAAP and IFRS. In particular Darren has expertise in many specialist areas such as pension schemes, charities and solicitor audits. He is one of the most experienced lecturers on pension audits in the UK.

Darren qualified in one of the smaller chartered accountancy firms and gained considerable practical experience in the audit of many different types of businesses. Darren subsequently specialised in audit with Grant Thornton LLP for several years and then became a senior technical manager with Macintyre Hudson LLP.

Darren is able to deliver training to all levels of seniority. With his wealth of practical knowledge from actually performing the fieldwork in the past, Darren is able to bring a practical dimension to his courses and relevant interpretation of regulations.

In the presentation Darren will cover:

• The need for harmonisation of Accounting Standards

• A brief history of how the UK has been moving to adopting IFRS and problems encountered

• The Present proposals included in FRED's 46,47 and 48

• An overview of the requirements of the FRSME as adapted in the present proposals

• Micro Entities - An overview of the proposals under UK GAAP and latest position

• Narrative Reporting - Recent Reports and potential changes to the Companies Act in respect of Director's Reports 

John McRae, HMRC
"iXBRL"
Presentation information coming soon...

Mark Heaton, Association of Charity Independent Examiners (ACIE)

"Charity Accounting Update and Specific Areas of Interest"

Mark Heaton specialises in helping charities and other not for profit organisations find their way through the ever increasing burden of legislation.

THE CONFERENCE

Conference will include: 

Delegate booklet

Lunch

Refreshments

Digital versions of handouts and slides following the event

SCHEDULE

9:00 - 9:30 - Registration 

9:30 - 11:00 - Avoiding Errors in Financial Statement Disclosures, Steve Collings (Leavitt Walmsley)

11:00 - 11:15 - Break

11:15 - 12:45 - The Future of Financial Reporting in the UK, Darren Leiser (Financial Fluency)

12:45 - 13:45 - Lunch

13:45 - 15:15 - iXBRL, John McRae (HMRC)

15:15 - 15:30 - Break

15:30 - 17:00 - Charity Accounting Update and Specific Areas of Interest, Mark Heaton (ACIE)

PRE-BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL 

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