The world is moving - steadily but inexorably - toward a single standard for financial reporting. Should the move away from local GAAP reporting and toward a unified International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) be viewed as an annoyance, a disaster, or an opportunity?

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Watch this Webcast to learn how your company can weather - or even leverage - the transition to IFRS. A distinguished roster of guests discusses the IFRS migration, sharing lessons learned from companies that have already made the move. A key topic: the steps and strategies that organizations should consider as they take on the tricky task of changing their reporting and accounting processes.

Topics

• What is IFRS? What is the Impact?
  
  When will companies move to IFRS? What is the right time to begin designing a strategy for the transition? How much of an impact will the change have on a company’s balance sheet and income statement? Andrew Bray, Technology Director, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, and Ian Wright, a Principal in the SAP Practice at Deloitte Consulting, answer these and other questions.
  
  
• Best Practices in IFRS - The SAP Perspective
  
  James Fisher, Senior Director of Solution Marketing for Enterprise Performance Management at SAP, and Peter Graham, Senior Director of Solution Management for SAP ERP Financials, discuss IFRS-related technology and business challenges. Learn how SAP solutions – which already support multiple reporting standards around the world – can ease the transition and optimize the opportunities.
  
  

Speakers

• Ian Wright, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
• Pete Graham, Senior Director of Solution Management for SAP ERP Financials, SAP
• James Fisher, Senior Director of Solution Marketing for Enterprise Performance Management, SAP
• Andrew Bray, Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers