Course 1000: IFRS Immersion Workshop (8 days)
08 - 17 Nov 2009 in Dubai

Instructors:

• Claire Dean
  Claire Dean is an instructor and consultant specialising in IFRS, UK GAAP and finance training. After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant Claire moved into training, delivering exam based courses for various financial qualifications and provided IFRS training to Ernst & Young's qualified staff. Claire then joined Ernst & Young’s Financial Reporting Advisory team in London as a Senior Manager. In this role she provided technical advice in all aspects of UK GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) to clients of E&Y, including working on IFRS conversions. Aside from being an experienced IFRS instructor, Claire also delivers financial training to the Analysts at many of the large investment banks across the world, runs finance courses for non financial managers and teaches the professional chartered accountancy examinations. A member of the ICAEW herself, Claire has a 1st class Honours degree in Accounting and Finance.
   
• Gregory Brown
  Gregory Brown is an international instructor and consultant specialising in US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). He has designed, written and taught courses throughout the USA and abroad on the implementation of various accounting standards. As well as teaching for IASeminars, Greg has taught many other Continuing Professional Education courses to CPA's. He has also taught the financial reporting, auditing and law papers of the CPA exam over a period of 3 years for the Becker CPA Exam Review Course. Greg has been a Professor at Devry University, University of Miami, Nova Southeastern University and Keller Graduate School teaching both undergraduate and graduate level accounting, finance and management courses. His professional career began at Price Waterhouse, and he subsequently worked for Ryder (a fortune 500 company) and served as Chief Financial Officer for a medium sized company based in Florida. A U.S. Certified Public Account, Greg was educated at the University of Miami where he received his Master’s Degree in Professional Accounting. Greg recently passed the IFRS Certification Program offered by the ICAEW.