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Events
Your guide to courses, workshops and member activities
Accounting and related
knowledge
Creating and managing
effective budgets will examine
what the budgeting process involves, help
participants develop more realistic and
effective budgets and teach them how to
use budgets as an effective performance
monitoring and measurement tool.
CPD hours: 3
Language: English
Date: 25 February
Time: 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Audit and assurance
Co-organized with the Securities and
Futures Commission, the joint
seminar on the audit of
licensed corporations will
discuss areas of concern over applying
Practice Note 820 and highlight the
impact of the auditing standards issued.
CPD hours: 2
Language: English
Date: 4 February
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Audit quality: measurement
and implications to reported
earnings will explore the consequences
of audit failure cases and discuss factors
that influence audit quality and how audit
quality can be measured.
CPD hours: 1.5
Language: English
Date: 28 February
Time: 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Business and professional
knowledge
Land tenure system in Hong
Kong will look at the present situation
and the system’s historical background. The
special characteristics of the system in the
New Territories will also be discussed.
CPD hours: 1.5
Language: English
Date: 6 February
Time: 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Business finance
Mastering impairment testing
will discuss the impairment related risks
expected to increase in this financial year
and the impact this has on a company’s
financial statements.
CPD hours: 1.5
Language: English
Date: 21 February
Time: 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Business management
What are the risks and opportunities
in managing suppliers in
China? will cover the pitfalls and advantages
in managing Chinese suppliers. The
speaker will assess economic data based on
1,000 interviews with Chinese manufacturers
in the consumer electronics industry
conducted over the past three years.
CPD hours: 3
Language: English
Date: 28 February
Time: 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Financial accounting and
reporting
Practical issues in adopting
HKFRSs for 2012 financial
statements will highlight the new and
amended International Financial Reporting
Standards and Hong Kong Financial
Reporting Standards, including HKFRS 10, 11,
12 and 13.
CPD hours: 3
Language: English
Date: 20 February
Time: 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Financial reporting seminar on
convertible bonds valuation will
provide an introduction to convertible bonds
and cover the interaction between accounting
treatment and valuation methodology
using case studies.
CPD hours: 1.5
Language: English
Date: 26 February
Time: 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Visit the Institute’s website for other programmes and
to enrol and pay online: www.hkicpa.org.hk
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