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Whatever your requirements are for training in international accounting, you can be assured that IASeminars are ready to deliver. Offering topics such as IFRS, US GAAP, IPSAS, ESG Reporting, Banking Regulation and more, here at IASeminars we are passionate about helping you progress your professional development now and throughout your career.

IASeminars Offer Client Focused Solutions

IASeminars was founded back in 2002 and have offices in London, Washington D.C, Toronto and Cape Town as well as a global faculty of over 20 subject-matter experts. Not only do we offer over 100 public events in major cities globally, but we also offer bespoke in-house training courses, ensuring the knowledge you seek is tailored to your specific needs and brought to your doorstep.

Most importantly our customer focussed culture influences everything that we do. Our customer support and account management team will work to provide you with the best customer experience. You can be confident that we won’t sell you courses that don’t suit your needs, instead we want our courses to meet your unique requirements. We think this is why our clients come back to us time and time again. And with a client list which includes Fortune 500 companies, financial regulators, accounting bodies, as well as noted public sector clients we are considered a market leader in this field of training.

We know that location is an important part of your buying decision. We chose our venue cities carefully. Our main financial hub cities offer you opportunities for combining training with other business and of course for enjoying the surroundings.

We pride ourselves on having never been a faceless organisation. Our staff have been with us for many years now and take pleasure in helping you progress through your career.

Our Management Team

Our Account Managers

Taking the lead in looking after you.

Deborah FyfeManaging Director

Since the day I arrived at IASeminars (over 10 years ago!), I have been struck by our teams' unfailing commitment to great customer service and satisfaction. Leading the IASeminars team is a such a pleasure because they are a dedicated group of professionals who are united by a common goal. We are truly lucky to collaborate with a global network of clients and faculty which brings fun, variety and a fair share of interesting challenges to our working lives! Whether my day is spent discussing new product with our managers, meeting faculty, reviewing our schedule or working with our prestigious In House Training clients, it is always rewarding.

Helen GallonChief Customer Officer

Every day at IASeminars is different thanks to all of our clients who share not just their professional stories, but personal ones too. It is such an honour to see so many return and recommend us. I’m proud of our high customer retention rate and take genuine pleasure in getting to know every one of our customers. Listening to you all ensures that we plan for the best possible client experiences.

Donna BeckCustomer Service & Events Supervisor

I love the variety that my role brings, especially speaking to our wonderful clients – old and new, and from all corners of the globe! Whether it be assisting you with your course booking or helping you with your visa application and accommodation, I am here to help in any way I can!

Our Back Office Managers

Ably supporting our business.

Anita RodenburgFinance & Event Manager

“I take real pleasure in managing our events to make sure that every detail of every event is set up to give our clients and instructors the best experience possible. Event management provides a real contrast to my work in finance where I keep a keen eye on the numbers, ensuring that costs are controlled, and the books are balanced.

Zsuzsanna MacPhersonProject Manager

My role allows me to use my project management skills across a variety of tasks from marketing to online learning with much more in between. I have a flair for design and keen eye for detail - nothing gets past me that's not of the highest quality. With all of this life is never dull!

Melinda KovacsProject Assistant

I love my job because every day is a new challenge. I'm involved in a great variety of projects, and I thrive when I'm busy and learning new skills. I work with a team of great people who are supportive and together we aim to take the best care of our customers.

Our Faculty and Product Managers

Ensuring relevance and quality.

Bill KempFaculty Head & Senior Instructor – IFRS & IPSAS

No matter how long I have been presenting seminars, I always look forward to the next one. But how can that be, if they’re about accounting and financial statements? Because of the delegates, every event is different. They come from all over the world, are thrown together but make connections and find that they have a great deal in common, while sharing perspectives and insights. And, a little known secret here, they usually have fun.

Peter DouglasProduct Director

Working with the IASeminars team is a genuinely rewarding experience. I love that the team is constantly striving to ensure our training and customer experience are nothing short of excellent. We are now expanding on our fantastic catalogue of courses and I’m proud to be part of the innovation.

Charles DuncanChief Academic Officer

At IASeminars we are always looking for ways to improve. We are delighted that our clients recognise the quality of our courses and I love playing a role as we innovate further to enhance the enjoyment and effectiveness of our courses.

Our Faculty of Specialist Instructors

Every one of our instructors is chosen not just for their extensive technical knowledge but for their ability to communicate complicated topics in an interactive and engaging style.

Isabelle Andernack

Isabelle Andernack is a French Chartered Accountant (Expert-comptable) and a Member of the French financial analysts’ institution (Société française des analystes financiers SFAF). She has some 20 years of professional experience in both the private and public sectors, including such activities as training, accounting, and managing the transition to new accounting systems. She also has significant experience in planning and implementation of an organization's transition to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS). Isabelle has worked on many high-profile accounting and audit training and consulting engagements in the public and private sectors. For example, she has recently implemented an ERP (enterprise resource planning) system for an international organization where she had previously led the conversion from cash accounting to accrual accounting under IPSAS, in order to improve its management and long-term financial and business strategy. Isabelle, who is fluent in English and French, is also a lecturer at EDHEC, ESSEC, Paris Dauphine University and at SFAF (Training Centre for Financial Analysts). She is the author of L'essentiel des IFRS (Eyrolles), foreword of Philippe Danjou, IASB Board Member as well as Interpretation and Application of IPSAS (Wiley), with Caroline Aggestam Pontoppidan.

Nick Auer

Nick Auer is a qualified accountant and a learning and development practitioner with 20 years’ experience in the public and private sectors. He designs and delivers bespoke training programmes and has significant experience in financial reporting, financial management, commercial awareness, value for money and performance improvement. Nick works with clients to implement training strategies, analyse training needs and evaluate training. Nick has designed and delivered many financial reporting programmes including a variety of open and client specific IFRS, IPSAS, UK GAAP and US GAAP courses. These range from basic to advanced and look at areas like Property Plant & Equipment, Intangible Assets, Employee Benefits, Leases, Financial Instruments, Provisions, Revenue Recognition, Business Combinations and Group Accounting. Nick also delivers a whole range of other financial and soft skills training including business partnering, budgeting, in-year management, cost control, investment appraisal, procurement and contract management. Nick’s work on Business Partnering includes helping delegates to get a better understanding of personality preferences, improving influencing skills, presentation skills, leadership and improving the effectiveness of teams so that clients end up making better business decisions. Nick also trains clients on improving their consulting skills. Nick has done a lot of work in UK public sector including the Ministry of Defence, Health Trusts e.g. Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospital, Local Authorities, the Home Office and the UK Border Agency. He has also worked with Clients across many sectors in the private sector. Nick is the Finance Director of a small UK consultancy.

Victoria Bainbridge

Victoria Bainbridge is a consultant and trainer with a specialism in public financial management. Most recently technical advisor and business development manager on international public financial management projects, alongside assignments in local commerce and academia in Germany. Qualified UK accountant (Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy) and has Certified Internal Auditor qualification. Other expertise includes audit, governance and control, financial systems and processes, and project management and implementation.

Gill Barron

Gill is a qualified Chartered Accountant by background, spending the early years of her career working for two of the big four accountancy practices in audit and assurance roles. She has been involved in learning and development for more than 20 years, across both technical and people skills, and across the public and private sector. Over that time, she has delivered courses across the world, as well as virtually. Gill works with client to design and delivery bespoke learning solutions, ranging from bite-size, on-line sessions through to five-day, case study based residential programmes. Her training portfolio includes accounting skills, business and finance skills, internal and external audit, risk, and assurance. She has delivered risk and assurance training for the energy industry, telecommunications, and infrastructure companies among others, as well as central and local government. Finance training clients include, again, central and local government, and a range of other industries including professional services firms, banks and retail. Gill also has a keen interest in combining technical skills with people skills through training on effective communication and report writing, team building, managing difficult meetings and wider business partnering skills. She is a member of the ICAEW, associate member of the Institute of Internal Auditors and is qualified to administer psychometric questionnaires including Myers Briggs Type Indicator and 16PF. She recently qualified as an executive coach with the Academy of Executive Coaching and is a Certified Online Learning Facilitator.

Frank J. Beil

Frank J. Beil, M.S., Accounting is Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Adjunct Professor of Management in the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. Frank is the author of several Portfolios, and has authored books on Revenue Recognition and Accounting for Derivatives and Hedging Activities for Business Expert Press. He has been teaching at the Carlson School of Management since 1998 and has twice been awarded teacher of the year. At the present time, his teaching and research interests are in Auditing and Financial Statement Analysis. In addition, he is an Adjunct Professor of Management teaching courses in Entrepreneurial Studies. His consulting/training engagements have included Accounting for: Revenue Recognition, Business Combinations, Leases, Stock-Based Compensation and topics specific to Oil and Gas Entities; Value Creation and Value Management and Working Capital Management; and Cash Flow Optimization.

Ervin L. Black

Ervin L. Black, Ph.D., is the John T. Steed Chair and Professor of Accounting In the Michael F. Price College of Business at the University of Oklahoma. He has served as the Director of the Steed School of Accounting and Director of Executive Education. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Washington in 1995 with specialities in Accounting, Finance, Statistics and Economics. He previously held faculty positions at Brigham Young University, University of Arkansas, and University of Wyoming. Professor Black’s research and teaching are primarily in the financial, managerial, and international accounting areas, with emphasis on examining the usefulness of firm financial characteristics in different settings related to management decisions: particularly non-GAAP accounting. Journals in which he has published include The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Accounting Organizations and Society, Contemporary Accounting Research, Management Science, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Accounting Horizons, and the Journal of the American Taxation Association. Professor Black is active in the International and Financial Reporting Sections of the American Accounting Association, having served as the President of the International Accounting Section. He also served on the AAA council for 3 years and served as an editor of the Journal of International Accounting Research for 12 years. In addition to his academic endeavours, Dr. Black has consulted and done expert work for various companies/firms including KPMG, PWC, Barclay’s Global, CPAexcel, and BeckerCPA.

Chris Boland

Chris Boland is a professional IFRS consultant specializing in assisting clients with their transition from Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and the application of new IASB standards. He is a Chartered Professional Accountant, Chartered Accountant, and a Certified Management Accountant. Chris has extensive experience with matters such as IFRS, US GAAP and ASPE. Prior to establishing his public accounting practice and teaching career over 10 years ago, Chris was General Manager (Accounting, IFRS, Internal Controls) at Canada Post Corporation. His earlier positions at other organizations included being CFO (public and private companies); VP Finance; Director of Tax and Treasury, Controller; and Manager of Financial Reporting. He was also an Auditor. Chris has over 30 years’ experience including experience in sectors which include telecommunications and software.

Nick Chandler

Nick Chandler is an ex-Partner in KPMG UK. He is a highly skilled accounting specialist who has had many years of experience advising some of the UK’s largest organisations on complex accounting matters. In addition he built KPMG’s Accounting Advisory Services team from the ground up into a successful and diverse practice. Nick has a passion for accounting training and education and has delivered focused, engaging training to professionals at all levels during his career – from newly qualified accountants to Board-level executives. He’s also famous for being able to deliver training that cuts through the complexity of the issue being discussed in a clear and appealing way.

Kate Daniels

With sixteen years of experience in managing ESG and Impact, Kate has spent the majority of her career in East and Southern Africa, leading ESG for a pan-African forestry company and later, serving as an ESG consultant to private equity funds and impact investors with an appetite for high growth African and Latin American business. Kate served as Group Head of ESG at New Forests Company, an African forestry and value-added timber products company, during which time, she designed the sustainability strategy and delivered 5 years of GRI Sustainability reporting. Kate currently resides in Colorado and leads Akerblom Advisory, a US-based ESG consulting firm. In her consulting capacity, Kate has worked with the IFC and World Bank, European and African private equity fund managers, most European DFIs, African Portfolio Companies, and North American credit institutions. Kate holds an MBA with a focus on Entrepreneurship from the University of Pretoria's Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), South Africa; an MA in Women's Studies from University College Dublin, Ireland; and a BA in Political Science from St. Mary's College of California, USA.

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 providing 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.

Jerad Dias

Jerad is a partner in the Audit and Assurance division at BDO Sri Lanka and Maldives. He also serves as the Head of Training at BDO. He is an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) and holding a B.Com (Special) degree from the University of Colombo. He has more than 17 years’ experience mainly in audit, consulting and training functions. Prior to joining BDO, he worked at Ernst & Young (EY), Sri Lanka for nearly 10 years, including their offices located in Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Guam. After leaving EY, he worked in the BDO, Fiji office for two years as an Associate Director prior to joining BDO Sri Lanka in 2017.He was promoted as a Partner at BDO Sri Lanka in June 2020. He is specialized in general financial accounting, audit and in providing services related to IFRS training & consulting. His local and international experience includes auditing clients in different industries including, banking and finance, leisure, telecommunication, manufacturing, transportation, food & beverage, retail and services. He has conducted IFRS/Audit trainings in Fiji, Bhutan and in the Maldives. He is also serving as a facilitator at CA Sri Lanka and local universities in conducting various training sessions. He is currently researching and studying on Sustainability reporting/ESG and Impact investing. At CA Sri Lanka, he has served as a member of the Student Training and Skills Development Committee and the National Conference Technical Committee (2017-2019). He has also served as a member in the CAPA/National Conference Technical Committee, Audit Faculty, Financial Reporting Standards Implementation and Interpretation Committee and the SMP Task Force of CA Sri Lanka (2020-2021). He was the Manager in Charge of the SMP Audit Toolkit development project (2012) and a member of the SMP Audit Software development project (2019) and the Practical Training Guide development project (2019).

Linda Hayes

Linda Hayes is a Chartered Accountant who teaches many courses on intermediate and advanced financial accounting topics under IFRS. Linda previously managed external reporting at Servus Credit Union as well as ATB Financial (both Alberta Financial Institutions). Linda’s experience includes external reporting under IFRS, accounting for derivatives and hedging, foreign exchange and general ledger management. Linda has been teaching at both the undergraduate and MBA level for over 15 years, and has also been involved in training candidates for the Canadian Chartered Accountant designation. Her work experience also includes six years of public accounting at Deloitte and Grant Thornton, as well as other industry experience. Linda has a degree in Business Administration and a Master’s in Business Administration.

Bronwyn Kemp

Bronwyn Kemp is a qualified Chartered Accountant (SA) and Registered Auditor with the South African Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors. She is the senior IASeminars instructor in South Africa and was previously Head of Audit for our sister organisation, Tabaldi Education. Bronwyn has had over 20 years of experience in the auditing profession in both the private and public sectors. Bronwyn served her training contract at PricewaterhouseCoopers and has since spent time as an audit partner of a small practice, senior management at a medium-sized national audit practice and as a senior audit manager and engagement leader for the Auditor General South Africa. She has spent significant time on audit quality control and related reviews, as well as running a provincial training office in the position of the SAICA registered training officer. Bronwyn continues to perform duties for and on serve on training sub-committees of the boards of both SAICA and the IRBA. Bronwyn has lectured auditing at an undergraduate, post-graduate and professional level. Bronwyn is passionate about auditing profession, professional education, governance and ethics, and making the profession and its standards and regulations practical, attainable, credible and value-adding.

Bill Kemp

Bill Kemp is IASeminars' Senior Instructor and Consultant. Bill specialises in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) and the comparison of IFRS with UK and US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). In the recent past, he has delivered public and in-house training courses around the world to a diverse audience from industries including financial services, retail, real estate, oil & gas, telecoms, and IT. Bill is a UK chartered accountant, and was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and at Oxford University. An experienced educator, he was formerly Managing Director of a major London financial training company. Bill’s work also includes training and consulting on financial statement analysis and business valuation, and he teaches on the International Accounting MSc program of the London School of Economics.

Faatima Kholvadia

Faatima Kholvadia is a lecturer and consultant specializing in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). After graduating from the University of Witwatersrand, Faatima worked as a public accountant at PwC specialising in the Mining and Oil & Gas industries. She also lectured at the University of Witwatersrand while completing her Masters in Commerce (Accounting). Faatima is a qualified South African chartered accountant and has worked in the UK, South Africa, Australia, Indonesia, Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia.

Iolo Llewelyn

Iolo Llewelyn CPFA MA BSc (Econ), is a public finance management trainer and consultant with a career spanning over 30 years in public sector audit. As Head of the Technical Unit at the Wales Audit Office (a UK regional public sector audit body), Iolo was responsible for developing and maintaining an ISA compliant audit methodology, providing training to staff on the methodology, and guidance and training to auditors and audited bodies on developments in financial reporting, both IFRS and IPSAS. He is a former member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy’s Accounting and Auditing Standards Panel. He has extensive knowledge and experience of ISAs, IPSAS and IFRS, having provided training for private and public sector bodies in various countries in Europe and the Caribbean, as well as writing audit manuals for public sector bodies in the UK, the European Commission and Africa. He has undertaken audit work in the UK, the Middle East, the Caribbean and Africa. Current projects also include co-authoring an academic paper on local government audit in the UK and a chapter of a publication on aspects of European public sector financial management.

Caryn Maitland

Caryn is a qualified CA (SA and RA), who has lectured extensively on Advanced Financial Accounting at University of KwaZulu-Natal and other prestigious institutions. Throughout her professional career she has specialised in facilitating Ethics conversations, keeping assurance practitioners up to date and unpacking legislation for the financial sector. Since 2006 Caryn has conducted independent workshops and seminars for professional accountants on a range of topics and has undertaken consulting engagements on many technical issues. In 2011 she established her own business as technical freelance consultant and trainer to account professionals. Subsequently she has worked extensively with commerce and industry, assisting analysts, directors and other users of financials to interpret, prepare, analyse and forecast based on the results of financial statements. Caryn is a technical advisor to various SAICA Eastern Region Districts as well as serving on various SAICA committees, such as the SAICA Eastern Region Council.

Vivek Mande

Vivek Mande is the Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting at California State University, Fullerton where he was named 2005-2006 Professor of the Year for the College of Business and Economics. He was the 2007-2008 PricewaterhouseCoopers Faculty Fellow, and also Director of the University's Center for Corporate Reporting and Governance (CCRG) which organizes SEC financial reporting conferences for Boards of Directors, audit committees, auditors and accountants. Vivek is an experienced consultant on Sarbanes-Oxley section 404 issues, and has provided training to foreign private issuers on US GAAP issues. He was the 2001-2002 Academic Fellow at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Washington DC. As well as research and publication on these topics, Vivek has made presentations on US accounting issues in numerous countries including Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, India, Germany and Singapore. He obtained his Ph.D from the Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA.

Alan Mayo

Alan Mayo is a UK chartered accountant and highly experienced instructor in the field of international financial reporting, with a particular professional interest in IFRS for oil and gas companies, IPSAS financial management for the public sector and financial statements analysis. Alan has delivered oil and gas in-house programmes for such organisations as Saudi Aramco, Cairn Energy, ENI, the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company and National Oil Corporation of Kenya. And his IPSAS clients have included UNICEF, ECOWAS and The International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology. Alan began his professional career as an auditor with PwC before co-founding their client training business in the UK. During this time he worked on the privatisation of British Gas, taught financial reporting and financial controllership programmes for Shell and managed a team providing training and change management support to UK public sector entities as they transitioned from cash to accruals based accounting, including the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Ministry of Defence. On leaving PwC, after nearly 20 years, he set up a successful financial training business, which focuses on supporting local authority staff in all aspect of financial management. Alan is a member of the ICAEW Financial Reporting and Business and Management Faculties.

Richard McCabe

Richard McCabe is a retired accounting executive with experience in the utility and energy marketing industries. Richard led his previous company’s transition from Canadian GAAP to IFRS and provided dual reporting in IFRS and US GAAP, following his company’s acquisition by a major US-based conglomerate. His previous company was the only Canadian electricity utility that that was able to recognise its regulatory assets and liabilities fully under IFRS. Richard is currently providing consulting services, including accounting research, developing financial statements and supporting documentation and preparing accounting and operating policies, procedures and internal controls. Richard was a participant in witness panels on behalf of his previous company’s biennial rate applications to their regulator. He was an active member and later the Chair of the Finance and Accounting Committee of the Canadian Electricity Association and was actively involved in the initiative to gain full recognition of a utility’s regulatory assets and liabilities under IFRS. As a result of his experience, he was appointed as a member of the Consultative Group to the International Accounting Standards Board on the potential recognition of regulatory assets and liabilities under IFRS. The group has been partially successful to date with the implementation of IFRS 14. Richard continues to be involved in this initiative as a consultant for the Canadian Electricity Association and is working with the IASB staff and Board towards full recognition of regulatory assets and liabilities under IFRS. Richard is a Chartered Accountant, Scottish and Canadian, and an MBA. During his career, Richard has been a Controller and an Internal Audit Director and has held senior positions with the utility regulator in Alberta, the predecessor to the Alberta Utilities Commission, and in the Office of the Auditor General of Alberta.

Saket Modi

Saket Modi is an international financial trainer and consultant based out of London. He specializes in training courses on advanced accounting, financial reporting and financial analysis topics, particularly with regards to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) and financial instruments. He has facilitated courses for preparers and users of financial statements from over 50 countries in Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia and the Caribbean. Saket has spent considerable time working, advising and training on complex matters relating to IFRS, including recognition and measurement of financial instruments and technical updates. He has designed learning materials and facilitated courses for organizations in different sectors including financial institutions, oil and gas companies, governments, professional services firms, accountancy bodies and educational institutions. He has written material on IFRS Accounting for Financial Instruments for the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and was invited by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board® (IAASB®) to present a paper on IFRS 9 Financial Instruments at their board meeting in New York. Saket has gained valuable experience working with FTSE listed companies and also with major accounting firms. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, holds IFRS certificate from the ICAEW and IPSAS Diploma from the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA). In addition to being a qualified accountant, Saket is also a CFA® charterholder.

Robert Moulin

Robert Moulin has been designing and presenting IFRS training courses for over 18 years. His accounting career began in professional practice, followed by a move into industry and senior management positions within global f.m.c.g. companies. An experienced facilitator, Robert has built his reputation by having a detailed understanding of the technical aspects of the accounting standards, combined with effective communication and a desire to assist preparers and users at all levels of the organisation. As well as delivering training and advice to businesses he also assists accounting students as they seek to complete their professional studies. His work often takes him overseas with recent assignments in Malaysia, India, Jamaica and Myanmar amongst others. Upcoming projects include presenting to Chinese insurers on the impending changes within IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts. Also a trained journalist, Robert has previously worked for the B.B.C. on their finance programmes. He is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Pateel Papazian

Pateel Papazian has professional experience both in the USA and Lebanon. A Certified Public Accountant from the state of California, she holds an EMBA degree from the American University of Beirut (AUB). She has worked in public accounting (CPA firms) for over nineteen years, including nine years in the USA. As a Director at KPMG – Lebanon from 1998 to 2008, she has audited clients including commercial companies and non-profit organizations reporting under IFRS and USGAAP. In 2008 she moved to the microfinance sector as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of one of the leading microfinance institutions in Lebanon where she was responsible for the overall financial management of the Institution. In 2010 she joined AUB as Director of Financial Reporting and Compliance and was in charge of planning, supervising, coordinating and performing complex financial analysis, accounting process and control analysis, internal and external reporting and other related work. Pateel has been working as a self-employed financial trainer and consultant since October 2012. Her curriculum as a financial trainer includes seminars on Financial Management Essentials for Non-Finance Professionals, IPSAS Accrual Basis, Management Accounting, Oil and Gas Global accounting, Financial statements analysis and Asset Management. Pateel is fluent in four languages: English, Arabic, French and Armenian.

Robert Phelps

Bob Phelps BA, FCA is a trainer of long standing in the business and financial community. He specialises in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), UK GAAP and US GAAP. This has involved him partnering in learning projects with a wide variety of different clients in both the private and public sectors. Working around the world, he has designed and delivered training within varying corporate and national cultures and has gained valuable experience of learners’ needs in what can be very different and challenging contexts. Recently he has delivered training courses to range of sectors including banking, insurance, legal, retail, real estate, oil and gas, waste disposal and engineering. Bob is a UK Chartered Accountant and was educated at private schools in Trinidad and the UK and at the University of Wales. An experienced accountancy exam tutor, he was formerly involved in the start-up and management of a regional training centre of a national financial training company. Bob’s work also includes training and consulting on financial statement analysis, business valuation and bank prudential regulation.

Caroline Pontippidan

Caroline Pontoppidan is an experienced educator and researcher based in Denmark and specializing in International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) and other international accounting and auditing issues. Since finalizing her Ph.D. in auditing, she has carried out research on the development of public sector accounting at the global level as well as providing training services for various public sector entities on International Standards of Auditing (ISA) as well as on the interpretation and application of IPSAS. Caroline previously spent 3 years in Japan teaching and researching emerging accounting and auditing issues, and she also worked for a United Nations agency for eight years. Recently Caroline has been expanding on her work into the area of companies reporting on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), integrated reporting practices and materiality assessments of CSR reports

Kevin R Smith

Kevin R. Smith, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Accountancy in the Woodbury School of Business at Utah Valley University. Dr. Smith obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, and earned his Master of Accounting (MAcc) degree and Bachelor of Science in accounting degree from Brigham Young University. In addition to teaching at Utah Valley, Dr. Smith has taught accounting courses at the University of Kansas, the University of Arizona, and Brigham Young University. He has published multiple articles in academic, practitioner, and education journals, including the Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, the Chartered Accountants Journal, the Journal of Business and Accounting, Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, and other journals.

Christian Thornæs

Christian Thornæs is a lecturer and consultant experienced in delivering training to blue chip investment and commercial banks across Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East - ranging from specific one-off courses to complex programmes designed to fit corporate strategic objectives. Before beginning his training career, Christian worked as an investment banker and financial engineer in London and Hong Kong. His main responsibilities were to structure and sell new financial products to clients on both the issuer and the buy side. He was involved in ECA-backed transactions, including buyer and supplier credits, as well as forfaiting structures and also worked on the due diligence on the original MTS/London Thamesport financing. Christian’s projects have included: delivery of the client training platform for a Global Top 10 fund manager for over a decade, covering all aspects of return maximisation strategies, investment risk mitigation and compliance, performance evaluation and attribution; delivery of a GARP Financial Risk and Regulation exam preparation programme for a specialist team of risk managers at a UK and a US financial markets regulator respectively; the provision of advice to an external Authorised Corporate Director regarding regulatory requirements in relation to PM’s; and the delivery of a UCITS programme for another Global Top 10 asset manager focusing on hedging, counterparty risk and global exposure. Christian has an MBA from INSEAD, France as well as a BSc and a MSc (Econ.) from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

Dr Tim Thorogood

Dr Tim Thorogood MA (Cantab), MA Ed, MBA, PhD is a researcher, consultant and trainer in public sector governance, strategy and financial management. He works at the interface of academia and management practice, linking past experience as a former city council chief executive, head of an island civil service and of a leading national ‘think tank’ with research and teaching skills gained through a PhD researching strategic management, as an associate lecturer at the Open University Business School, and as a visiting fellow at Cardiff University Business School researching public finance. Tim served as Chief Executive of the Falkland Islands from 2008 until 2012 where he conceived the highly successful South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute reflecting a growing interest in linking the ‘green’ agenda with public sector management which he now develops in his research at Cardiff Business School. He has co-authored a number of academic articles on public sector finance.

Marty D Van Wagoner

Marty D. Van Wagoner has 30 years’ experience in public accounting. He is currently Professional-in-Residence Faculty at Utah Valley University, managing partner of Mountainside Accounting & Consulting, adjunct faculty in the MBA program of Roseman University, and teaches CPE courses across the country for various CPE providers. He also serves on four not-for-profit Boards. He spent the first 10 years of his career at KPMG and the last 15 years as a partner in local firms, with an emphasis in audit. After KPMG, he briefly worked at placement agencies and then was sole proprietor of an accounting and auditing firm. During that time, he spent four years as a professor of accounting, information systems, and MBA courses at the University of Utah. He has recently taken over as the author for the Wolters Kluwer CCH Accounting for Income Taxes. He has also served as President and in other officer positions of the Utah Association of Certified Public Accountants (UACPA) and as a Council Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). He received his BA in Accounting with a Spanish minor and his MBA from the University of Utah.

Tariq Zia

Tariq Zia is a US CPA specializing in accounting issues under both IFRS & US GAAP. He has worked in Texas, Saudi Arabia and UAE for several of the 'Big Four' accounting firms and Municipal Government over the past 24 years, servicing multinational corporations in the Oil & Gas and other industries. Tariq was for example a designated subject matter expert for the Oil & Gas sector at KPMG in Saudi Arabia, where he worked on multinational clients. Tariq has extensive experience in teaching accounting courses, including at Deloitte & Touche where he was a National Instructor delivering courses to various levels of staff and management on topics such as Introduction to US GAAP & GAAS, and convergence of IFRS with US GAAP. His work experience includes audits of SEC registrants and private clients from the Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, Retail and Service sectors under both US GAAP and IFRS; Sarbanes-Oxley compliance related work; and advisory work in the area of GAAP convergence. As a Director of Technical Accounting in a US Advisory firm, Tariq served as senior advisor to a large multinational chemical manufacturer, which involved complex accounting issues and transactions under both US GAAP and IFRS. Currently, Tariq is serving as a Chief Financial Officer and a Chief Operating Officer for a Municipal Entity in UAE reporting under IFRS.

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We help finance professionals become more successful.

Our Mission

IASeminars aims to stage the best and most respected training available in our global field. Our empowered team will be the key to our success, always driving the development of our customer focused products. We will be recognised as a company of individuals who genuinely care about our customers and are rewarded with their loyalty.

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Quality Assurance and CPD

In addition to participating in several formal accreditation programs our courses generally meet the requirements for professional education training credits (PD, CPD, CPE) from institutes around the world.

NASBA

IASeminars is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org.

The National Registry of CPE Sponsors is a program offered by the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) to recognize sponsors who offer Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credit in accordance with nationally recognized standards. See confirmation of the IASeminars NASBA CPE registration. The IASeminars NASBA sponsor number is 107816.

All participants at IASeminars events receive an official IASeminars attendance certificate after their course, which confirms the event details (title, date and location) and also the related NASBA-approved Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credit hours.

British Accreditation Council

IASeminars has been accredited by the British Accreditation Council as a short course provider. Any enquiries, comments or complaints regarding this matter may be submitted directly to the BAC. On awarding the Certificate of Accreditation, the BAC provided the following short statement:

IASeminars Limited was first inspected by the British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher Education in November 2011. BAC’s inspectors reported on an overall excellent level of provision in the Provider. They considered in particular that IASeminars is rigorous in the induction and appraisal of its staff, that thorough provision is made for the comfort and welfare of clients, and that authoritative instruction by seasoned tutors is based on a wealth of experience and compendious documentary materials. IASeminars Limited was awarded accreditation in January 2012.

Texas State Board of Public Accountancy

IASeminars is registered with the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy as a CPE sponsor. Our CPE Sponsor ID is: 009689. This registration does not constitute an endorsement by the Board as to the quality of our CPE Program.

Our Affiliations

IASeminars works with a number of prestigious professional organizations around the world.

IFRS Foundation

IASeminars Ltd. uses excerpts from the official IFRS Standards for the purposes of delivering training courses under licence from the IFRS Foundation. The IFRS Foundation and its independent standard setting body, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), develop IFRS Standards that bring transparency, accountability and efficiency to financial markets around the world. IAS® is the IFRS Foundation’s registered Trade Mark and is used by IASeminars under licence during the term and subject to the conditions contained therein.

International Federation of Accountants® (IFAC®)

IASeminars Ltd. uses excerpts from the IPSAS™ Pronouncements of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board® (IPSASB®), published by IFAC, for the purposes of delivering training courses under non-exclusive licence from IFAC. Neither IFAC nor IPSASB endorse nor undertake liability for any product or service of IASeminars, and to the extent permitted by applicable law, disclaim liability for any loss or damage of any kind arising from use of and/or reliance on the contents of this publication. The ‘International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board’, ‘International Public Sector Accounting Standards’, ‘Recommended Practice Guidelines’, ‘International Federation of Accountants’, ‘IPSASB’, ‘IPSAS’, ‘RPG’, ‘IFAC’, the IPSASB logo, and IFAC logo are trademarks of IFAC, or registered trademarks and service marks of IFAC in the US and other countries, and are used by IASeminars under non-exclusive licence during the term and subject to the conditions contained therein. No rights are granted to third parties to reproduce or distribute the materials of IASeminars or IFAC without first seeking appropriate permission from either entity.

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