Format

 

This course will be delivered in person on Tuesday 26 November 2024 from 9:30am to 1:30pm. In addition, participants will receive additional pre-recorded "on demand" Videos. The boxset of all sessions including the live session will be delivered to participants after the course.

 

Further information including joining instruction will be emailed to you a few days before the event.

 

Who should attend

This course is suitable for accountants, and other business professionals, at all levels and from all sectors, given the scope and fast-moving pace of the sessions

 

Course overview

Cork event Keynote speaker and topic: TBC

 

Financial Reporting Update: Dympna Cassidy (Deloitte)

 

Dympna will provide and accounting update on IFRS including IFRS 18 and IFRS 19 in conjunction with an update on Irish and UK GAAP including FRED 82.

 

CSRD Update: Brian Murphy (Deloitte)

 

For the majority of private companies, the CSRD regulation will kick in for 2025-year ends, are you ready prepared for this substantial change in corporate reporting? This session will take you through the key steps to take over the coming months.

 

Company Law Update: Aisling Garry (KPMG Law)

 

Aisling will discuss recent developments and changes in company law over the last 12 months.

 

Taxation Update: Stephen Keohane, (KPMG) and Julie Healy, KPMG

 

Key learning outcomes

Appreciate the key Financial Reporting, CSRD, Company Law and Taxation issues affecting their businesses and organisations over the last 12 months, with an eye on proposed prospective changes.

 

Speaker Bio's

Aisling Garry

Aisling qualified as a solicitor in 2013, having trained with a leading international corporate law firm in Dublin. She working as a an energy and projects lawyer before joining KPMG in 2016. She has a wide range of experience in advising domestic and multinational organisations on corporate law, commercial contracts, banking, corporate restructuring, corporate governance, regulatory and procedural policies.

 

Dympna Cassidy

Dympna Cassidy is a director working in the Financial Reporting Advisory team in Deloitte Ireland LLP.She has a BA in Accounting and Finance from Dublin City University and is a Chartered Accountant.  She has 12 years’ experience in practice including time in audit and accounting advisory and significant experience in respect of International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the European Union (“IFRS”), the suite of Irish GAAP frameworks (including FRS 101 and FRS 102) and U.S GAAP.Dympna has been part of the Financial Reporting Advisory team in Deloitte for the past number of years and has worked on clients in a wide variety of industries supporting them with their technical accounting needs.

 

Brian Murphy

Brian Murphy  is a partner in Audit & Assurance, within the Consumer & Technology Business team. Brian joined Deloitte five years ago and he has over 14 years of experience, providing audit and advisory services to a wide range of business sectors, including retail, manufacturing, construction/real estate, engineering, hospitality and technology sectors. His portfolio consists primarily of large privately owned businesses, both family and private equity backed.Brian lectures and presents extensively on a range of topics including audit, financial accounting/reporting and finance on behalf of Chartered Accountants Ireland. He is past Chair of Chartered Accountants Ireland Leinster Society and is the current Chair of CA Support.

 

Stephen Keohane

Stephen is a partner in KPMG Ireland’s tax practice and advises a broad range of clients on Irish and international tax matters. His areas of expertise include mergers & acquisitions, group reorganisations, Intellectual Property planning, disposal & acquisition planning, inbound and outbound investment, financing and property taxation.

 

Julie Healy

Julie Healy is a Cork-based tax director in KPMG Ireland, specialising in private enterprise and family businesses.

 

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