Speaker: Aidan Clifford, ACCA Ireland

A general high level update for accountants on recent developments relevant to accounting and audit with signposts to resources for further study.

• Companies Accounting Act 2017
• Introduction to FRS 105 and FRS 102(1A)
• Companies (Statutory Audit) Bill 2017
• FRS 102 implementation issues and FRED 67
• IFRS developments – introduction to IFRS 15 and 16
• Update on charity accounting 
• Audit monitoring update

Aidan works full time for ACCA as Technical Director of ACCA Ireland; providing advice to accountants on technical auditing, accounting, ethical and investment business issues. He also lectures extensively for ACCA on auditing and accounting to qualified members and students both in Ireland and overseas.