FEI Breakfast Seminar Series: International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Opportunities for Driving Value in Your Conversion

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In Canada, many organizations are grappling with the high-level and important impacts of adopting IFRS in financial reports. Over the coming months, as Canadian companies move forward with the nuts and bolts of their conversions, it is critical to understand how the transition will affect people, processes, information technology, the business, and external communications.

PwC's presentation, entitled "Opportunities for Driving Value in Your Conversion," provides information and key lessons that we have learned from some of our most significant IFRS engagements. These findings can help you identify the issues and opportunities that can drive value during your own conversion process.

• The presentation covers the following key issues:
• Where is IFRS Today and Where Are You in the Process?
• IFRS Timelines Are Shorter Than You Think.
• What Does Value Mean?
• Not All IFRS Conversions are Created Equal.
• Opportunities for Driving Value in Your IFRS Conversion.

It was delivered in select cities (Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto and Ottawa) across the country in March 2009.