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HOW WE
WILL HELP YOU
Prepare
The Accounting Conference 2016 will
provide all the necessary updates on
key changes in financial reporting as well
as usable tools to help you reach your full
potential as a financial professional.
From improving the quality and clarity of
external and management reporting to
how small consistent steps can lead to
big results, this conference will provide
sessions with impact.
Grow
Are you ready to build up your toolkit
to take ownership over your career?
Acquire a framework to enable you to
achieve business improvement, network
with likeminded peers and learn from the
journeys of other finance professionals.
Lead
We are creating tomorrow’s leaders
today so, be future ready and lead
from the front with us at Accounting
Conference 2016.
CONFERENCE
HIGHLIGHTS
This year’s event has been expanded to
include three streams ensuring a variety
of sessions to choose from no matter what
your interest. Discover the latest updates in
financial reporting, the current best practice
in business performance reporting and
business insights from industry leaders.
Whether you are looking to stay up to date,
gain new skills to prepare for your next
career stage or simply get new perspectives
from business leaders – there is something
for everyone.
BUSINESS INSIGHTS
• The role of finance in company strategy
development and execution.
• Turnaround and Transformation.
• Foreign exchange management.
• Business risk and the finance team.
BUSINESS PERFORMANCE
REPORTING
• Data analytics.
• Reporting to the board: what do they
really want.
• Power Pivot – changing your reporting
for the better.
• Better business partnerships.
FINANCIAL REPORTING
• ASIC: Focus areas and findings.
• Financial reporting insights.
• Financial instruments.
• Complex business combinations.
• Key changes to lease accounting.

3. CONFERENCE PRESENTERS
Mike Wallas GAICD. FAIM
CEO,
Enterprise Growth Solutions
Mike is an experienced,
professional, and visionary
Senior Executive and
Non‑Executive Director
with a career spanning
over 30 years across
a number of industries
in Australia and
internationally.
He is a successful
turnaround specialist
and has an excellent
track record of achieving
favourable outcomes for
businesses in distress. Mike
is strongly results-driven
and works with board
members, executives
and stakeholders to drive
and achieve exceptional
business outcomes.
Heather Watson FCA
Director,
KPMG CFO Advisory
Heather Watson is
a Director in KPMG’s
Sydney CFO Advisory
practice. She has more
than twenty years’
professional services
experience across
the private and public
sectors. In her current
role, she works with
CFOs and finance
teams to solve reporting
problems and improve
financial management.
She has worked with
entities across a range
of industries and has
experience with small
and large enterprises.
Nigel Collin
Business Facilitator
and Speaker,
Founder of Thinkativity
As founder of ‘Ingenious
Oz Project’ and as an
ambassador of ‘Start
Up Australia’ Nigel has
interviewed well over
100 Australian business
leaders, owners and
entrepreneurs, and been
able to crystallise their
actions and behaviours
into an achievable
process for business
growth. He has spent
over two decades on the
ideas front line helping
clients, he understands
the important role ideas
play and more importantly
how to find ideas that
are viable.
Business Partners
The Accounting Conference is proudly supported by:
For sponsorship opportunities please contact sponsorship@charteredaccountantsanz.com

4. SYDNEY 11 MARCH BRISBANE 15 MARCH MELBOURNE 12 APRIL
8.15am – 8.45am R1 Registration
8.45am – 9.00am WA1 Welcome address
9.00am – 9.45am S1 Future of the finance function: Will rapid change leave you rewarded or redundant?
9.50am – 10.35am S2 ASIC: Focus areas and findings S3 Better business partnerships
10.35am – 10.55am M1 Morning tea
10.55am – 11.55am S4 Key changes to lease
accounting
S5 The role of finance in
company strategy development
and execution
S6 Data analytics – using
data like you hadn’t realised
you could
12.00pm – 1.00pm S7 Financial Reporting Insights:
What is new and what is on the
horizon for 2016?
S8 Reporting to the board:
What do they really want from
their finance teams?
S9 Turnaround and
Transformation
1.00pm – 2.00pm L1 Networking Lunch
2.00pm – 3.00pm S10 IFRS 9 Financial
Instruments – impacts for
the typical corporation
S11 Be the scientist of your
own experience
S12 Power Pivot – changing
your reporting for the better?
3.00pm – 3.20pm A1 Afternoon tea
3.20pm – 4.20pm S13 Complex Business
Combinations
S14 Business risk and the
finance team
S15 Foreign exchange
management – how does your
organisation measure up?
4.25pm – 5.25pm S16 How small steps lead to big results
5.30pm Conference close
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
EARNUPTO
6.5CPDHOURS
For full conference program details and to learn about
the presenters, visit charteredaccountants.com.au/acctconf

5. CONFERENCE PRICING
Member Non-member Regional^ Group#
Early Bird* $760.50 $912.60
Standard $845.00 $1,014.00 $676.00 $718.25
* Early Bird offer is applicable for registrations received with full payment by the following early bird dates: Sydney – 12 Feb 2016,
Brisbane – 15 Feb 2016, Melbourne – 16 Mar 2016.
^ Regional discount is applicable to members working in regional areas (125km from venue) and/or travelling interstate.
# A group discount is applicable for 3 or more members from the same organisation. Group registration and payment must be received together.
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
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HIGHLIGHT SESSION
Better business partnerships
Today’s business leaders need to make rapid and complex decisions in
order to survive. Uniquely positioned Chartered Accountants have a key role
to play in partnering with these leaders towards making better decisions.
This session will help you see:
• why today’s leaders and the finance team need each other
• how you can establish yourself as a trusted business partner
• what to do now that you’re a trusted business partner.
Ryan McCarthy
CA, Commercial
Director, Stryker

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Brisbane, Qld
TUESDAY 15 MARCH 2016
Early Bird – 15 Feb 2016
Hilton Brisbane
190 Elizabeth Street Brisbane
QLD 4000
Sydney, NSW
FRIDAY 11 MARCH 2016
Early Bird – 12 Feb 2016
Hilton Sydney
488 George Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Melbourne, Vic
TUESDAY 12 APRIL 2016
Early Bird – 16 March 2016
Crown Conference Centre
8 Whiteman Street
Southbank Vic 3006