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International Financial Forum
Accountants Creating Value
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and leading Ukrainian business daily Ekonomicheskie Izvestia organize this high-level forum for leading CFO’s, auditors, accountants, finance professionals from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.
This will make it a unique venue for sharing professional experience and business practices from the vast and diverse area between Baltic, Black, and Caspian seas.
Guest of Honour:
- Helen Brand, ACCA Chief Executive
The Forum will feature three discussion panels:
Panel 1
Economic outlook for the countries of Baltic-Black Sea-Caspian “belt”: lessons from the crisis and recipes for recovery. Though Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan 20 years ago where parts of USSR, countries followed quite different routes in political and economic development. Despite the crisis, Azerbaijan had economic growth of 9% in 2009 and 5% in 2010. Baltic states, despite being part of EU, suffered hardly from the crisis – in Latvia GDP fell 18% in 2009. Radical regulatory and anti-corruption reforms in Georgia put it on the 12 rank globally by ease of doing business.
- Viktor Pynzenyk, former Minister of Finance of Ukraine
Panellists:
- Lolita Capkevica, Assurance Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Latvia
- Andrii Droniuk, Head of the Public Council at the National Commission of Communications Regulation in Ukraine
- Elnur Gurbanov, Partner, Assurance and advisory services, Deloitte, Azerbaijan
- Zurab Lalazashvili, Chairmen of the Board of the Georgian Federation of Professional Accountants and Auditors, Managing Partner of BDO Georgia
- Pavel Laschenko, Managing Partner Ernst & Young Belarus
Panel 2
IT Technologies for finance profession: business benefits. How implementation of newest IT technologies in finance (SAP, XBRL, other) make businesses around the region more successful, profitable, and competitive. As from 2010, it is possible to submit annual reports in Estonia by using XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) technology based on the Estonian taxonomy. How accountants and finance people, using new technologies, earn more money for shareholders.
- Kurt Ramin, Director & Head of Standards at AccountAbility, XBRL developer
Panellists:
- Pavlo Boyko, Managing Director, TMF Ukraine
- Sergiy Ivanyuta, CFO MTS Ukraine
- Konstantin Romansky, SPA senior manager, PricewaterhouseCoopers Ukraine
- Andriy Stytsiuk, CFO, Softserve, Ukraine
Panel 3
Talent management and professional development of accountants: best practices and cases. What challenges are facing finance professionals in the sphere of professional development, and how the best value for money can be achieved in different countries.
- Helen Brand, Chief Executive, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
Panellists:
- Igor Krykun, CFO, Publicis Groupe Ukraine
- Yulia Lyubomudrova, CFO, KPMG in Ukraine
- Margarita Povazhnaya, CFO, System Capital Management, Ukraine
- Elshan Rahimov, Managing Partner, GRBS, Azerbaijan
- Olena Volska, Managing Partner EBS, Ukraine
On March 31, 2011 an International Financial Forum “Accountants creating value” will be held at Intercontinental Kyiv Hotel, Kyiv, Ukraine from 9:00 till 18:00
Registration fee for participation in the International Financial Forum is 500 USD. Members, registering on special terms have additional 10% discounts. ACCA students get 20% discount. First 50 registered ACCA members will be registered free of charge.
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