Financial Services
ADI Virtual Conference 2020
28 May 2020Financial Services: ADI Virtual Conference 2020
Our Virtual ADI Conference covers a variety of hot topics for ADI’s, particularly coming up to the end of financial year reporting period. These topics include:
- The Financial Services landscape - recent developments in financial services, an update on regulatory trends, managing governance during a pandemic and responding to current challenges.
- Accounting considerations – specifically AASB 9 considerations for 2020, including COVID 19 impacts on ECL, AASB 16 for ADIs, going concern and cash flow forecasting.
- Fraud, cyber security & modern slavery – how the financial services industry has been impacted by the pandemic and how organisations can respond to emerging risks.
- Tax – important tax updates that ADI’s need to be across, including GST issues, GST recovery, tax risk governance and IFRIC 23.
- Regulatory updates – EFS reporting standards and changes to APS 310, including incorporating the RPG 702 data quality reporting standard and software demonstration.
- Internal Audit & Compliance – the impact of the current pandemic on your risk profile and how this impacts your audit program and audit execution.
- Open Banking and Consumer Data Right (CDR) – the impact of both open banking and CDR on ADI’s, and how ADI’s can work with fintechs moving forward.
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ATO final taxation ruling – TR 2025/2: Third Party Debt Tes
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