Guidelines to meet the challenges of IFRS requirements

AVAILABLE ON DEMAND UNTIL FEBRUARY 22, 2010:
Original Air Date:

Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Duration: 60 minutes (including Q&A)
Cost: $99

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What You'll Learn

  • Develop a working knowledge of how your organization can leverage SAP to meet IFRS requirements
  • Step through the SAP solutions available for IFRS reporting activities, including SAP General Ledger
  • Find out how to adjust your current reporting requirements, such as US GAAP, to align with IFRS reporting and walk through a proven approach to transition your organization
  • Identify where your organization will most likely feel the impact of IFRS
  • Understand what the common challenges are surrounding IFRS and learn how to address them
  • Gain insight into the future of leveraging your SAP system to meet IFRS reporting requirements

Target Audience

Executives:

  • CEO
  • CIO
  • CFO
  • COO
  • Executive director
  • Executive vice president
  • General manager
  • President

Vice Presidents, Directors, and Managers of:

  • Accounting
  • Accounts payable
  • Accounts receivable
  • BASEL II
  • Business intelligence
  • Consolidations
  • Controlling
  • Corporate finance
  • Corporate performance management
  • Finance
  • Financial planning
  • Forecasting/planning
  • Internal audits
  • Operations
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Strategic planning
  • Treasury

Teams that lead and support:

  • Accounting systems
  • Accounts payable
  • Accounts receivable
  • Asset accounting
  • Business analysis
  • Compliance
  • Cost accounting
  • Credit management
  • Electronic banking
  • Financial accounting
  • Financial applications
  • Financial planning
  • Financial reporting
  • Financial supply chain management
  • G/L accounting
  • Global finance deployments
  • Master data management
  • Month-end close
  • Operations analysis
  • Planning, budgeting, and forecasting
  • SAP CO-PA
  • SAP ERP upgrades
  • SAP FI-CO
  • SAP SEM

IT teams:

  • Accounting systems
  • Audit controls
  • Basis administrator
  • Business systems
  • Configuration specialist
  • Data analyst
  • Database administrator
  • SAP system administrator
  • Systems architect

IT Architects and Business Process Managers:

  • Business Information Architect
  • BW/BI Architect
  • E-Business Architect
  • Enterprise Architect
  • Enterprise Data Modeler
  • Global Business Process Owner
  • Integration Architect
  • IT Infrastructure Architect
  • Solution Architect
  • Systems Architect
  • Technical Architect

About The Speaker

Gary Fullmer - SAP Labs

Gary Fullmer is currently an independent consultant who recently worked for SAP Labs for 13+ years.

While at SAP Labs, he spent his first 4 years as a Management Accounting (CO) instructor developing and delivering all CO courses offered in the SAP course catalog.

For the next 6 years, he assumed the role of a FI/CO Solution Manager where he focused on interfacing with customers for CO, SEM and FI solutions.

During his remaining 3 years at SAP, his primary focus was on:

  • NewGL and Migration techniques
  • IFRS which included development of the SAP IFRS adoption model
  • SAP’s Enhanced Financial Closing

After leaving SAP in April 2009, Gary continued to work for SAP and other organizations as an independent consultant and advisor in the areas of NewGL, IFRS and Enhanced Financial Closing.

Prior to SAP, Gary worked in various industries serving in such positions as Controller, Corporate Controller, CFO and Manager of Computer Systems.