Format

This course will be delivered in person on Thursday 5 December 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

Keynote speaker: Professor Joe Peppard, Academic Director at the Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, University College Dublin)

 

“Beyond the Hype – Getting Real with AI” to include:

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: John Darby (Solicitor)

John will be delivering a whistle-stop tour of the most important developments and changes in company law over the last 12 months.

 

Taxation Update: Paul Murphy (Martin J Kelly & Co.)

Paul will deliver a quick fire session on the latest developments and updates across the main tax headings in 2024.

 

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

Professor Joe Peppard

Professor Joe Peppard is Academic Director at the Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, University College Dublin. Previously, he was a faculty member at MIT Sloan School of Management, ESMT Berlin, and Cranfield School of Management, UK. A leading authority on information, systems and technology and their business and organizational implications, his research studies contemporary issues and challenges that executives face in an environment of accelerating technological change. While academically rigorous, with his research he strives to steer a pragmatic path. In his writings and teaching, Professor Peppard seeks to help the busy executive to be successful.

 

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.

 

John Darby

John Darby, BCL, is a Senior Legal Counsel with PM Group.  He has been practising as a solicitor in Ireland since 1997 and is a member of the Law Society of Ireland.  He qualified and practised for ten (10) years in leading Irish law firm, McCann FitzGerald.John has also practised in-house with Diageo plc, Bord Gais Eireann and the Coca-Cola Company.John’s main areas of practise are corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance.  He has advised numerous domestic and international clients in a wide variety of business sectors, including project management, media, motor distribution, telecommunications and food and agri.  John is also a frequent speaker in the areas of corporate and company law and is a lecturer on the Law Society’s Professional Course on Business Law and its Diploma Courses on Company Law and Corporate Governance.

 

Paul Murphy

Paul Murphy is the Principal of Martin J. Kelly & Co. He is a Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) and a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. Paul has lectured with the Irish Tax Institute for the past 25 years and is a speaker for a number of accountancy bodies on their professional development panels.

He is also co-author of the Tax Institute’s third-level publication Irish Taxation: Law and Practice.