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20/09/2015 - Last seats! EFRAG Conference: Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting - will it meet European expectations?

EFRAG invites you to participate in a conference on the Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting on 23 September 2015 in Brussels. Look at the programme and contribute to this important topic on the EFRAG Agenda!


The conference will start on a keynote speech by Theodor Dumitru Stolojan, Member of the European Parliament and the EP Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

Liz Murrall, The Investment Association and ICAS Research Committee, will then introduce a study on professional investors' financial information usage and its results will be presented by Beatriz García Osma, Professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid; and Thomas Jeanjean, Professor at ESSEC Business School in Paris. The study has been sponsored by EFRAG and ICAS with the aim of obtaining more knowledge on the needs of users for the debate on the Conceptual Framework.

Anne McGeachin, IASB Technical Principal, will provide a short presentation of the IASB Exposure Draft Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting. Françoise Flores, EFRAG TEG Chairman, will present EFRAG's document available for public consultation. The proposals will be debated by participants and a panel consisting of representatives from National Standard Setters with Peter Sampers, Chairman of the Dutch Standard Setter and EFRAG Board Member; Patrick de Cambourg, President of the French ANC and EFRAG Board Member; and Erlend Kvaal, Chairman of the IFRS Technical Committee of the Norwegian Accounting Standards Board. They will be joined by Peter Malmqvist, Chairman of the Swedish Association of Financial Analysts and Member of the EFRAG User Panel, representing the user community.

There is no charge for the participation and the language of the event will be English.

HOW TO REGISTER? Please send an email to event@efrag.org 

Full programme available HERE.