IFRS Standards Updates and Transition Planning Course

Assess current accounting changes, map reporting impacts and govern data, systems and control readiness.
IFRS Standards Updates and Transition Planning Course

At a glance

Duration
1 Week
Format
Classroom
Cities
Trabzon, Cairo, London, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Dubai and more
Next session
25 – 29 October 2026, Trabzon
Average fee
5,750 €

Overview

Advanced IFRS Standards Updates and Transition Planning Training Course is a one-week course for financial reporting leaders, controllers, accountants and auditors who leave with an IFRS Change Impact and Transition Plan. Participants inventory newly effective and forthcoming requirements, map accounting and disclosure impacts, assess data and system gaps, design controls and govern implementation. The course treats updates as a managed reporting change rather than a standards survey. Agile Leaders Training Center develops IFRS standards updates and transition planning capability.

Who Should Attend

  • Teams responsible for monitoring accounting-standard changes

  • Controllers responsible for policy and reporting implementation

  • Finance transformation teams responsible for data and systems readiness

  • Audit functions responsible for transition evidence and controls

  • Leaders responsible for approving financial reporting change plans

The course assumes participants can research IFRS requirements and prepare financial statements, and it leaves out introductory bookkeeping, exam preparation and transaction-level teaching of every amended standard.

Departments and Industries

The course supports departments and industries that manage accounting-standard changes across reporting cycles.

  • Financial reporting, accounting policy and controllership

  • Finance transformation, systems and internal audit

  • Banking, insurance and investment organizations

  • Energy, infrastructure and manufacturing organizations

  • Technology, retail and professional services organizations

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Analyze newly effective and forthcoming IFRS changes

  • Evaluate accounting, disclosure and transition impacts

  • Build policy, data and system gap assessments

  • Prioritize implementation workstreams and decisions

  • Apply transition governance and control design

  • Build an IFRS change impact and transition plan

Course Agenda

Day 1: Change Inventory and Applicability

  • IFRS Change Horizon Register

  • Effective and Forthcoming Requirement Map

  • Entity Applicability Screening Matrix

  • Early-Application Decision Framework

  • Accounting Change Ownership Map

Day 2: Current Amendment Impact Analysis

  • Financial Instrument Classification Amendment Checklist

  • Nature-Dependent Electricity Contract Assessment

  • Annual Improvements Volume 11 Impact Grid

  • Management Commentary Practice Statement Gap Review

  • Accounting Policy Change Log

Day 3: Forthcoming Reporting Readiness

  • IFRS 18 Presentation Change Map

  • Management-Defined Performance Measure Inventory

  • Aggregation and Disaggregation Readiness Test

  • IFRS 19 Eligibility and Disclosure Decision Tree

  • Hyperinflationary Presentation Currency Impact Memo

Day 4: Transition Data, Systems and Controls

  • Data Requirement and Source Traceability Matrix

  • Chart-of-Accounts and Reporting System Gap Log

  • Comparative Information Transition Schedule

  • Implementation Control and Evidence Checklist

  • Transition Risk and Dependency Register

Day 5: IFRS Transition Planning Practice

  • Exercise: Screen an IFRS Change Inventory

  • Exercise: Build an Accounting Impact Assessment

  • Exercise: Map Data and Disclosure Gaps

  • Exercise: Prioritize Transition Workstreams

  • Capstone Exercise: IFRS Change Impact and Transition Plan

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities to convert issued requirements into governed implementation work.

  • Suggested activity: assess financial instrument amendments for a banking portfolio

  • Suggested activity: map presentation changes for a manufacturing reporting pack

  • Suggested activity: test reduced-disclosure eligibility for a subsidiary group

  • Suggested activity: present a transition roadmap to a finance governance committee

FAQs

Who suits IFRS standards updates and transition planning training?

Financial reporting leaders, controllers, accountants, transformation teams and auditors suit the training. Participants should already research IFRS requirements and prepare financial statements.

How does IFRS updates training differ from a general IFRS course?

IFRS updates training focuses on newly effective and forthcoming changes, impact assessment, readiness and transition controls. A general IFRS course teaches the principles and application of a wider standards portfolio.

How should an IFRS change impact assessment be structured?

An impact assessment records applicability, affected policies and balances, data and systems requirements, presentation and disclosure changes, transition choices, owners, dependencies, evidence and target decisions.

What belongs in an IFRS transition plan?

An IFRS transition plan contains the change inventory, impact assessments, workstreams, milestones, ownership, data and system changes, controls, communications, comparative information and governance decisions.

How are forthcoming IFRS requirements monitored?

Forthcoming requirements are monitored through an authoritative change register that records issue status, effective timing, early-application choices, affected entities, implementation dependencies and review ownership.

Conclusion

Participants take back an IFRS Change Impact and Transition Plan containing amendment inventories, impact assessments, readiness gaps, workstreams and controls. The plan changes fragmented technical updates into a governed implementation portfolio. It helps finance, systems and audit teams coordinate decisions, prepare evidence and manage reporting change.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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OverviewAdvanced IFRS Standards Updates and Transition Planning Training Course is a one-week course for financial reporting leaders, controllers, accountants and auditors who leave with an IFRS Change Impact and Transition Plan. Participants inventory newly effective and forthcoming requirements, map accounting and disclosure impacts, assess data and sys…

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