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ISAR Workshop on Accounting and Financial Reporting Standards


03 October 2016
room XXVI, Palais des Nations
Geneva
, Switzerland

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Hugh Shields
Executive Technical Director
IASB

Hugh Shields joined the IASB in March as Executive Technical Director and leads the IASB’s technical staff. Hugh previously held senior positions both in banking and public accounting practice. Hugh has extensive experience of the application of IFRS, having held senior technical accounting and financial reporting roles across Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas. He has also served as a Member of various advisory bodies to the Fédération des Experts-comptables Européens (FEE) and the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG). Hugh qualified with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland in 1990, having trained at KPMG London. He read Economics at university and is also professionally qualified as a Corporate Treasurer.

Richard Martin
Head, Corporate Reporting
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants

As Head of Corporate Reporting at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Richard Martin’s role involves monitoring and scrutinizing developments in financial reporting - particularly within IFRS - and integrated and narrative reporting. His analysis of these issues helps mold ACCA policy. He is also Chairman of the Accounting Expert Group at the European Federation of Accountants and Auditors for SMEs, and a member of the reporting policy groups at Accountancy Europe.

Mr. Martin has been a member of the European Commission Expert Group for the evaluation of IFRS Regulation. He has also contributed to working parties for ISAR - UNCTAD, looking into Reporting and Sustainable Development and in developing accounting guidance for SMEs.

Susan M. Cosper
Technical Director
Financial Accounting Standards Board
United States of America

Susan M. Cosper is the FASB Technical Director and Chairman of the Emerging Issues Task Force, a role she has held since 2011.  Ms. Cosper has responsibility for managing all of the FASB’s technical projects and activities.  Ms. Cosper has more than 24 years of diverse financial reporting and auditing experience. During her tenure, she has had the privilege of overseeing the staff work on some of the most challenging and important projects the FASB has addressed in recent times including comprehensive changes to the accounting for financial instruments (including credit losses and hedge accounting), lease accounting, revenue recognition. Prior to her appointment at the FASB, she was a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), most recently based in PwC’s Financial Instruments, Structured Products, and Real Estate Group in New York City and prior to that PwC offices in Florham Park, NJ (National Office), Pittsburgh, PA and London, UK.  She earned her B.S. in accounting from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and is a certified public accountant in the states of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

 

David Baur
Director Assurance Technical Office
PricewaterhouseCoopers AG, Switzerland

David is a Director in the assurance technical office and part of global ACS – PwC’s worldwide network of IFRS technical specialists. He grew up and studied in Switzerland. After 6 years in the audit practice, he joined the accounting technical department and has since worked with both the RLO team (focusing on revenue, income taxes and financial statement presentation) and the BC team (focusing on business combinations, consolidation and joint arrangements). He has also completed a 2 year secondment with the ACS team in Melbourne, Australia.

In his daily work he supports engagement teams and clients across industries by providing accounting advice on emerging accounting issues and complex transactions. He gives advice on financial reporting disclosures for public documents including IPOs and pro-forma financial statements. Further, he is responsible for PwC’s semi-annual IFRS client update training (stay smart - financial reporting update) and regularly present at internal and external training events.

Vincent Papa
Director, Financial Reporting Policy
CFA Institute

Vincent Papa is the Director of Financial Reporting Policy at the CFA Institute, and is a spokesperson and author of commentary providing investor perspectives on corporate reporting. Vincent serves on various committees including the IFRS advisory council; the EFRAG user panel; and European Securities Markets Authority (ESMA) Corporate Reporting Standing Committee. He was previously a member of the Financial Stability Board Enhanced Disclosure Task Force and the IFRS Capital Markets Advisory Committee.

Mr. Papa is a CFA charter-holder and CPA licensed in Washington State. He holds a PhD in Management with a thesis on derivatives accounting from Cranfield School of Management in the United Kingdom, a Master's degree in Finance from London Business School, an MBA from Witwatersrand University, and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nairobi.

Vijay Kumar
Council Member
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

<strong>CA Vijay Kumar M P, </strong>is the Chief Financial Officer of SIFY Technologies Limited, a NASDAQ listed Company and Vice Chairman of Accounting Standards Board and Committee of Accounting Standards for Local Bodies. He is also an active member of several committees of ICAI.

<strong> </strong>He was Partner, Yoganandh &amp; Ram Chartered Accountants between 1999 and 2007.He also served as a Head Investment Banking &amp; Company Secretary, Sundaram Finance Services Ltd. (1992-1999).

CA Vijay Kumar presently holds Directorships in Sify Singapore (Pte) Ltd, National Internet Exchange of India (NiXi) and Thejo Engineering Ltd. He has authored 10 Popular Titleson Accounting, Audit and law. He is recipient of CFO 100 Roll of Honour (2016) from CFO India and 100 Most Influential CFOs of India (2015) from CIMA.

Fábio Moraes da Costa
Executive Dean
FUCAPE, Business School
Brazil

Fábio Moraes da Costa is the Executive Dean at FUCAPE Business School - Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). In the last 15 years, he had the opportunity to teach financial accounting &amp; reporting (Brazilian GAAP, IFRS and US GAAP) for Brazilian largest companies, regulators and audit firms, besides developing academic papers and instructional materials for executive training. Since 2014, he is the Director of Education and Research at the Fundação Brasileira de Contabilidade (Brazilian Accounting Foundation), working as a volunteer on projects that have the objective to enhance the Brazilian accounting profession through educational and research projects. He is also a member of the Consultative Advisory Group of the International Accounting Education Standards Board (IAESB) and a member of the Brazilian delegation at ISAR/UNCTAD meetings. He is a Chartered Accountant in Brazil (CRC-SP) and holds a Ph.D. degree in Accounting.

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Andrew Watchman
Chief Executive Officer and Technical Expert Group Chairman
European Financial Reporting Advisory Group

Andrew Watchman joined the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) as CEO and TEG Chairman in April 2016. EFRAG’s mission is to serve the European public interest by developing and promoting European views in the field of financial reporting and ensuring these views are properly considered in the IASB standard-setting process and in related international debates. EFRAG ultimately provides advice to the European Commission on whether newly issued or revised IFRS meet the criteria in the IAS Regulation for endorsement for use in the EU, including whether endorsement would be conducive to the European public good. Andrew is responsible for directing and managing EFRAG’s technical activities, including chairing EFRAG’s Technical Expert Group, and executive management of the organisation.

Prior to joining EFRAG Andrew was the Global Head of IFRS for Grant Thornton, leading a team supporting the application of IFRS across the international network and chairing the firm's global IFRS expert group. Responsibilities included consulting on technical issues, developing publications, delivering training and responding to IASB proposals. Between July 2013 and joining EFRAG Andrew also served as a member of the IFRS Interpretations Committee (IFRIC). Before Grant Thornton Andrew served as Accountancy Adviser to the UK's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), providing expert advice on public policy in financial reporting and the transition to IFRS in the UK. Prior to that Andrew spent fourteen years in the audit practice of an international accounting firm, up to partner level.

Marek Grabowski
Director of Audit Policy
Financial Reporting Council, United Kingdom

Marek Grabowski is the UK FRC’s Director of Audit Policy, leading the development and maintenance of the FRC’s auditing, assurance and ethical standards and guidance since 2010. He was until recently a Public Member of the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board and Chair of the IAASB Task Force on Assurance over Extended External Reporting (EER). Prior to joining the FRC, he was with PricewaterhouseCoopers for 31 years (including 20 as a partner), in various front line, and technical, audit and capital markets transaction reporting roles in the UK and overseas.

Kalani Hettiarachchi
Assistant Technical Manager
Sri Lanka Accounting and Auditing Standard Monitoring Board

Mrs. Kalani Hettiarachchi, Assistant Technical Manager of Sri Lanka Accounting and Auditing Standards Monitoring Board (SLAASMB) has experience in the fields of accounting and auditing in diverse sectors. Her exposure counts for over 08 years of which more than 03 years in regulating compliance with accounting and auditing standards at SLAASMB. She is an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Sri Lanka and also holds B. Sc. Accounting (Special) degree.


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