2017 CIRI/Ivey Finance & Accounting Tutorial
Event Description
It is strongly recommended that you bring a laptop with a spreadsheet application such as Excel or a financial calculator.
This course is strongly recommended for participants who have limited
exposure to financial accounting and the analysis of financial
statements. It will also serve as a useful review for those with some
experience.
The objective of this tutorial is to provide a crash course on
transactional analysis and the accounting cycle, including the
preparation of the balance sheet and an income statement. Many of the
fundamental accounting concepts, including money measurement, entity
concept, going-concern concept, matching concept, etc., will be
discussed as well as the difference between accrual accounting and cash
flow. In addition, time value of money will be discussed in order to
understand the basics of valuation.
Speaker
Rick Robertson, Associate Professor, Ivey Business School
RRick Robertson is an Associate Professor of Managerial Accounting and
Control at Ivey Business School. He has a BA in Business Administration,
and an MBA and PhD from Western University. He earned a CA with Ernst
& Young and has completed the CICA In-depth Tax Course for
practicing tax specialists. In 1991, to increase his practical tax
knowledge, he began working full-time for Ernst & Young as a Senior
Tax Manager in the London office. After two years of client service in
the tax area, he returned to Ivey Business School and began the process
of developing a managerially-oriented tax course.
Robertson's research interests lie in the area of accounting for
corporate income taxes and the provision of pension benefits by
corporations. He has taught extensively on professional accounting
programs, has served on several committees of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants of Ontario (ICAO) and was an elected council member of the
ICAO for five years. He is currently one of two Ontario representatives
on the CICA's International Qualifications Appraisal Committee. He was
also involved in the development of a new accounting standard in
Corporate Income Tax. He was a director of Stackpole Ltd., a TSX-listed
company, serving as chair of the audit committee and currently is the
audit committee chair for ADB Systems International Ltd.
Registration
Online registration is not available for this seminar.
To register for this course, please download and complete the registration form and return by email to [email protected]. An invoice will be issued to you from Ivey. Please ensure that this invoice is paid prior to the seminar date.
Please note that registered "no shows" without 48-hour prior
notification will not be reimbursed. All cancellations must be received
in writing.