This event will provide an update on the IASB's current thinking on the future of accounting for Financial Instruments including;
• IFRS 9 - Overview, amendments proposed by the IASB and current EFRAG endorsement status
• Impairment - the move to an expected loss model
• Hedging accounting - more opportunity to minimise volatility
with speakers
Fergus Condon is the Leader of the Financial Accounting Advisory Services at Ernst & Young in Ireland. He has over a decade of experience in providing financial reporting and corporate governance advice to Audit Committees and Boards of public companies. Fergus has led a number of financial instrument based projects in the past twelve months including those focussed on hedge accounting, loan provision methodologies and related disclosures and remediation of accounting processes and controls in a Treasury division of a Bank. Fergus is a member of ACCA's Global Forum for Corporate Reporting.
Ramakrishnan Ramanamthan is a senior manager in Ernst & Young's EMEIA Financial Services Organisation. Ram has significant experience auditing and advising companies in the banking, money transfer and payment processing sectors. Ram also provides hedge accounting advice to the Treasury divisions of a number of Ireland's leading corporate listed entities.