Masterclass in Accounting and Reporting Requirements for Derivatives

Programme Introduction

The Master Class in Accounting and Reporting Requirements for Derivatives is specifically designed for those engaged in the accounting for, or management of, financial instruments. The aim is to explain current financial accounting and reporting requirements related to risk management activities and highlight current trends as well as likely changes in the future (for example the new IFRS 9 Financial Instruments).
This Master Class in Accounting and Reporting Requirements for Derivatives is designed to provide participants with the ability to:

• Describe various financial instruments and how to account for them;
• Discuss and critically assess the regulatory framework and impact of current controversies surrounding accounting for financial instruments, for example amortised cost, fair value accounting, IFRS 9;
• Review and apply accounting standards pertaining to IAS 32 Financial Instruments: Disclosure and Presentation, IAS 39 Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement, IFRS 7 Financial Instruments: Disclosures and IFRS 9 Financial Instruments; and
• Understand the current IASB proposals with regard to the replacement of IAS 39 as they relate to the recognition and measurement of financial instruments, impairment and hedge accounting.

The style of the Master Class will be interactive throughout, with a combination of lectures, discussion and self directed exercises.
This Master Class will appeal to candidates in such roles as:

• Chief Financial Officers
• Regulatory Reporting Officers
• Financial Accountants
• Auditors
• Risk Managers in all risk disciplines
• Existing and aspiring non-executive
• Directors
• Compliance Managers
• Legal Professionals
• Derivatives Traders
• Corporate Bankers
• Stock Brokers
• Trustees
• Asset Managers
• Investment Managers
• Wealth Managers
• Consultants / Advisers
• Fund Accountants
• Treasury Specialists
• Research Analysts

Topics Overview

This Master Class will address topics such as current financial accounting and reporting requirements related to risk management activities – particularly with respect to derivatives, securitisation and special purpose vehicles - current trends in reporting requirements and likely changes in the future.

Accreditation

Graduates of this Master Class will receive a Certificate of Completion from the School of Professional Finance. The
School of Professional Finance is a recognised school of University College Dublin, affiliated with the UCD College
of Business and Law.

Examinations and Assessment

There are no examinations or assessments for this Master Class in Accounting and Reporting Requirements for Derivatives.

Master Class Leader - Professor Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh PhD

Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh BComm (Galway), DipPrAcc (UCD), PhD (Leeds), FCA (Ireland) is Professor of Accounting at
University College Dublin. Before joining UCD, he taught at undergraduate, graduate and executive levels in Dublin
City University and, more recently, at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has also led executive and
professional education programmes at, for example, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland, ACCA Ireland’s
Financial Services Group, Irish Life plc, AIB, the Revenue Commissioners and the Institute of Bankers School of
Professional Finance.

From March 2003 until October 2006, he chaired the Audit Committee of the Department of the Marine, Communications & Natural Resources. He led the research team which reported to the Commission on Electronic Voting on the risk and control aspects of the proposed e-voting process in 2004. He has served as an expert witness in financial reporting in several leading tax cases.

A former Fulbright Fellow at Northeastern University (Boston), he has published widely in Financial Reporting (for example, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Journal of Business Research and The British Accounting Review, critical Perspectives on Accounting and Journal of Accounting Literature) and in accounting history (Accounting Historians’ Journal, accounting history, The Routledge Companion to Accounting History and as Guest Editor of a Special Edition of Accounting, Business and Financial History).

To Register

The closing date for registrations is Friday, 10th September 2010. To register, please click BOOK THIS COURSE and complete all sections of the Application Form.

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