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HOW WE WILL HELP YOU
PrepareThe Accounting Conference 2016 will provide all the necessary updates on key changes in financial reporting as well as usable tools to help you reach your full potential as a financial professional.
From improving the quality and clarity of external and management reporting to how small consistent steps can lead to big results, this conference will provide sessions with impact.
GrowAre you ready to build up your toolkit to take ownership over your career? Acquire a framework to enable you to achieve business improvement, network with likeminded peers and learn from the journeys of other finance professionals.
LeadWe are creating tomorrow’s leaders today so, be future ready and lead from the front with us at Accounting Conference 2016.
CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
This year’s event has been expanded to include three streams ensuring a variety of sessions to choose from no matter what your interest. Discover the latest updates in financial reporting, the current best practice in business performance reporting and business insights from industry leaders.
Whether you are looking to stay up to date, gain new skills to prepare for your next career stage or simply get new perspectives from business leaders – there is something for everyone.
BUSINESS INSIGHTS
• The role of finance in company strategy development and execution.
• Turnaround and Transformation.
• Foreign exchange management.
• Business risk and the finance team.
BUSINESS PERFORMANCE REPORTING
• Data analytics.
• Reporting to the board: what do they really want.
• Power Pivot – changing your reporting for the better.
• Better business partnerships.
FINANCIAL REPORTING
• ASIC: Focus areas and findings.
• Financial reporting insights.
• Financial instruments.
• Complex business combinations.
• Key changes to lease accounting.
CONFERENCE PRESENTERS
Mike Wallas GAICD. FAIMCEO, Enterprise Growth Solutions
Mike is an experienced, professional, and visionary Senior Executive and Non‑Executive Director with a career spanning over 30 years across a number of industries in Australia and internationally.
He is a successful turnaround specialist and has an excellent track record of achieving favourable outcomes for businesses in distress. Mike is strongly results‑driven and works with board members, executives and stakeholders to drive and achieve exceptional business outcomes.
Heather Watson FCADirector, KPMG CFO Advisory
Heather Watson is a Director in KPMG’s Sydney CFO Advisory practice. She has more than twenty years’ professional services experience across the private and public sectors. In her current role, she works with CFOs and finance teams to solve reporting problems and improve financial management. She has worked with entities across a range of industries and has experience with small and large enterprises.
Nigel CollinBusiness Facilitator and Speaker, Founder of Thinkativity
As founder of ‘Ingenious Oz Project’ and as an ambassador of ‘Start Up Australia’ Nigel has interviewed well over 100 Australian business leaders, owners and entrepreneurs, and been able to crystallise their actions and behaviours into an achievable process for business growth. He has spent over two decades on the ideas front line helping clients, he understands the important role ideas play and more importantly how to find ideas that are viable.
Business Partners
The Accounting Conference is proudly supported by:
For sponsorship opportunities please contact [email protected]
SYDNEY 11 MARCH BRISBANE 15 MARCH MELBOURNE 12 APRIL
8.15am – 8.45am R1 Registration
8.45am – 9.00am WA1 Welcome address
9.00am – 9.45am S1 Future of the finance function: Will rapid change leave you rewarded or redundant?
9.50am – 10.35am S2 ASIC: Focus areas and findings S3 Better business partnerships
10.35am – 10.55am M1 Morning tea
10.55am – 11.55am S4 Key changes to lease accounting
S5 The role of finance in company strategy development and execution
S6 Data analytics – using data like you hadn’t realised you could
12.00pm – 1.00pm S7 Financial Reporting Insights: What is new and what is on the horizon for 2016?
S8 Reporting to the board: What do they really want from their finance teams?
S9 Turnaround and Transformation
1.00pm – 2.00pm L1 Networking Lunch
2.00pm – 3.00pm S10 IFRS 9 Financial Instruments – impacts for the typical corporation
S11 Be the scientist of your own experience
S12 Power Pivot – changing your reporting for the better?
3.00pm – 3.20pm A1 Afternoon tea
3.20pm – 4.20pm S13 Complex Business Combinations
S14 Business risk and the finance team
S15 Foreign exchange management – how does your organisation measure up?
4.25pm – 5.25pm S16 How small steps lead to big results
5.30pm Conference close
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
EARN UP TO 6.5 CPD HOURS
For full conference program details and to learn about the presenters, visit charteredaccountants.com.au/acctconf
CONFERENCE PRICING
Member Non-member Regional^ Group#
Early Bird* $760.50 $912.60
Standard $845.00 $1,014.00 $676.00 $718.25
* Early Bird offer is applicable for registrations received with full payment by the following early bird dates: Sydney – 12 Feb 2016, Brisbane – 15 Feb 2016, Melbourne – 16 Mar 2016.
^ Regional discount is applicable to members working in regional areas (125km from venue) and/or travelling interstate.# A group discount is applicable for 3 or more members from the same organisation. Group registration and payment must be received together.
CONFERENCE REGISTRATIONThere are three ways you can register – either online, by phone or by downloading the registration form and returning it to us:
1. Online Delegates can register online via our secure site at charteredaccountants.com.au/acctconf
2. Phone Contact the Service Centre on 1300 137 322 (8.30am – 6pm AEDT, Mon – Fri)
3. Return your registration form by post, fax or email:
NSW Post FaxEmail
GPO Box 9985, Sydney, NSW 200102 9290 [email protected]
Qld Post FaxEmail
GPO Box 9985, Brisbane, Qld 400107 3233 [email protected]
Vic Post FaxEmail
GPO Box 9985, Melbourne, Vic 300103 9670 [email protected]
To access a full copy of our training terms and conditions, visit charteredaccountants.com.au/TermsandConditions
HIGHLIGHT SESSION
Better business partnershipsToday’s business leaders need to make rapid and complex decisions in order to survive. Uniquely positioned Chartered Accountants have a key role to play in partnering with these leaders towards making better decisions.
This session will help you see:
• why today’s leaders and the finance team need each other
• how you can establish yourself as a trusted business partner
• what to do now that you’re a trusted business partner.
Ryan McCarthy CA, Commercial Director, Stryker
charteredaccountants.com.au/acctconf
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Brisbane, QldTUESDAY 15 MARCH 2016Early Bird – 15 Feb 2016
Hilton Brisbane 190 Elizabeth Street Brisbane QLD 4000
Sydney, NSWFRIDAY 11 MARCH 2016Early Bird – 12 Feb 2016
Hilton Sydney488 George Street Sydney NSW 2000
Melbourne, VicTUESDAY 12 APRIL 2016Early Bird – 16 March 2016
Crown Conference Centre8 Whiteman Street Southbank Vic 3006
