03/09/2015 - EFRAG Conference: Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting - will it meet European expectations? Speaker Panel

At the conference, a representative of ICAS will introduce a study on professional investors' financial information usage and its results will be presented by Beatriz García Osma, Professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid; and Thomas Jeanjean, Professor at ESSEC Business School in Paris. The study has been sponsored by EFRAG and ICAS with the aim of obtaining more knowledge on the needs of users for the debate on the Conceptual Framework.

Anne McGeachin, IASB Technical Principal, will provide a short presentation of the IASB Exposure Draft Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting. Françoise Flores, EFRAG TEG Chairman, will present EFRAG's document available for public consultation. The proposals will then be debated by participants and a panel consisting of representatives from National Standard Setters with Peter Sampers, Chairman of the Dutch Standard Setter and EFRAG Board Member; Patrick de Cambourg, President of the French ANC and EFRAG Board Member; and Erlend Kvaal, Chairman of the IFRS Technical Committee of the Norwegian Accounting Standards Board. They will be joined by Theodor Dumitru Stolojan, Member of the European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, and Peter Malmqvist, Chairman of the Swedish Association of Financial Analysts and Member of the EFRAG User Panel.

There is no charge for the participation and the language of the event will be English.

HOW TO REGISTER? Please send an email to event@efrag.org before 16 September.

A formal invitation can be found here.