With speaker

Fergus Condon is a Partner in the Financial Accounting and Advisory Services team at Grant Thornton 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. Within the financial services sector, Fergus has led projects on accounting for derivative contracts in an Insurance company, 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 and the ACCA Ireland Committee.  He represents the ACCA at CCAB – I and is currently ACCA Ireland Chairman.

The discussion will focus on the following key areas:

• Overview of the New Irish GAAP landscape FRS 100 – 105
• Accounting Framework Options and the benefits of each
• FRS 102 – Principle differences to Irish GAAP and implementation challenges to date
• How to approach a conversion to FRS 102