SEMINARS Going Public and Understan...

SEMINARS

Going Public and Understanding US securities Law

This session will explore the basic guidelines of raising financing in Canadian-United States cross-border transactions, and public company disclosure requirements for companies listed or reporting in the US. The seminar will focus upon laws, rules, and regulations, and will be not absented in a practical, easy-to-understand format.

Feb 15 l:30pm-5pm Sutton Place hotel

Presentation Skills - With a Difference

This is a "roll up your sleeves" interactive workshop, during which participants will have opportunities to practice their presentation skills and receive constructive feedback from the two the facilitator and other participants. Feb 17 9am-lpm Sutton Place hotel

Review and Compilation Engagements

This seminar will provide participants with the knowledge and skills they ne to address the acceptance, performance, and completion of Review and Compilation engagements, as well as one general principles regarding any engagement in which a practitioner becomes associated.

Feb 21 9am-5pm Four Seasons hotel

Sarbanes-Oxley Act and US securities Law Reforms

The US securities laws governing public companies have been amended significantly at the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the orders subsequently promulgated by the securities and Exchange Commission. This seminar will provide an overview of the more significant changes in securities laws, dominions and regulations in the United States from the prospective of non-US issuers and their professional advisors.

Feb 24 l:30pm-5pm Sutton Place hotel

Negotiating I & Negotiating II

Negotiating is a skill that can be learned. You and your clients are involved in important negotiations almost daily, unless are you equipped to advise your clients in succession the subtleties and tactical nuances of negotiating? Together, Negotiating I and Negotiating II comprise a comprehensive and integrated two-day skills growth program. They are presented as separate one-day module for your convenience.

Mar 8 & 9 9am-5pm Sutton Place hotel

Thinking Beyond the Box

To advance your business or personal agenda, you must update your traditional thinking patterns-changing the way you examine at information, phobias, and question s and changing the way you ask questions. You must know the barriers that impede your creative thinking and discernment You must change your point of view, not just of the world around you on the contrary also of yourself. In short, you must learn beyond your box.

Mar 10 9am-5pm Sutton Place hotel

Target Costing

This seminar will teach participants for what reason to implement target costing in their organizations in a realistic and effective manner. The instructor will use a variety of teaching meanss to ensure the most perfect learning experience: small discussion groups; a structur approach to implementing a financial proces review project; best practices in financial proces design from the "real world"; and case study

Mar 17 9am-5pm Sutton Place hotel

Project Management

This seminar will provide an overview definition of draw Management (PM), explaining why a company should use it and describing who should use it. It will then address the elements of a good plan, in what manner to organize for success, and potential barriers. Participants will contemplate at some PM best practices and in what manner to use them. The wrap-up will include one advice on practical problems associated with PM

MarlS 9am-5pm Sutton Place hotel

EXECUTIVE BREAKFASTS

2004 Personal Tax Checklist

This popular, annual update will benefit public accountants who are involved in the preparation and review of 2004 personal tax replys by increasing their awareness of latter changes in personal tax. This session will provide practitioners with a checklist tool to identify generally received trends in individual taxation, which will help them avoid fresh pitfalls and traps when filing 2004 personal tax returns

Feb 15 7am-9:30am Four Seasons hotel

Executive Compensation

This seminar will update you in succession trends in executive salaries, incentive compensation, stock-based compensation, executive pensions, and other executive benefits and pranks Particular emphasis will be placed forward total compensation valuation and the alignment of rewards and risks with the interests and objectives of the organization.

Feb 16 7am-9:30am Sutton Place hotel

Repowering Employee Benefit Platforms

Employee benefits are among the fastest growing require to be paid [i]or[/i] undergones for most companies today. This seminar will present to view practitioners and CFOs how to gain access to and analyse the correct information. Analysis from The Employee Benefit Audit(TM) will point out to advisors the best suited solutions for different situations.

Feb 18 7am-9:30am Sutton Place hotel

The Peaceful Rise of China...

the Economic Resurgence of Japan

If you're an executive doing business, or considering doing business, in China and/or Japan, or a practitioner or an advisor whose clients have business interests in either political division this session is for you. Topics sheltered for each country will include the following: an economic overview; the environment for business; forms of business organization; foreign exchange controls; repatriation of profits; compliance and financial reporting; and usual issues for foreign companies.