The Acumen Global Training team includes a group of extraordinary faculty members with broad backgrounds in IFRS, USGAAP, Auditing, and so many more topics. All of our instructors have an impressive list of past clients in many of the major industries. Because the global economy is constantly changing, we make it our job to stay on top of any new developments in accounting standards or rules that may apply to various businesses. Our instructors constantly update their knowledge and training for all new pronouncements and provide vivid examples and case studies to illustrate the major concepts. We bring this constant vigilance and expertise to you in all of our training and consultancy events.
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| Instructor | Specialist Topics |
|---|---|
| Christine M. Anderson | IFRS, US-GAAP, Audit and Advisory Services |
| Bobbe M. Barnes | IFRS, US GAAP, Strategic Cost, XBRL |
| Michael Bechara | Internal Controls and Risk Management |
| Farah De Rouck | IFRS, US GAAP |
| Bahaa El-Eid | IFRS, US and CAD GAAP, Oil & Gas, Financial Services |
| Steve Henning | IFRS, US GAAP, Corporate Governance, Fraud, Auditing, IPSAS |
| Karen Kalishek | IFRS, US GAAP |
| Emil Koren | IFRS, US GAAP, Strategic Cost, Audit |
| Joseph B. Nelson | US GAAP, Fraud, Forensic, Intellectual Property, Legal Environment, SOX |
| Kurt P. Ramin | IFRS, US GAAP, XBRL |
| Howard S. Sibelman | IFRS, US GAAP |
| J. Michael Slocum | Regulatory Compliance, Contract Negotiation, Contract Administration including US Government Contracting, Clinical and other Research Contracts |
| Eamonn Walsh | |
| Veronique Weets | IFRS |
Baha’a El-Eid is Executive Director of BASE, Chartered Accountant in Mississauga, where he is responsible for practice growth and development along with assurance, technical accounting and advisory engagements. A graduate of the University of Jordan, Bahaa earned his CPA designation in 2002. He has been a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario since 2008.
Prior to moving to Canada, Baha’a worked for a number of companies in the Middle East, including Gray Mackenzie Oilfield Services Ltd. in Syria, where he conducted financial planning, budgeting, analysis and cash management duties. He also worked as a Finance Director for the Al-Nisr Al-Arabi Insurance Company in Jordan, where he led the merger process and worked closely with regulators, investors and auditors involved with the merger and the new public offering.
Baha'a's IAS/IFRS Experience: Worked on all standards as part of reporting process including preparation of financial statements and notes disclosures for different financial services, retail and distribution, manufacturing and oilfield services companies, and also worked on all standards in public accounting in a capacity as part of conversion engagements.
As part of the Canadian GAAP-IFRS Conversion engagements that were managed and executed by Bahaa for Oil and Gas and Oilfield Services companies, he assisted clients identifying highly and moderate impact areas on their financial statements and accounting process, those will result from conversion to IFRS and a lot of his time were allocated to standards that have the greater number of differences such as:
Also he helped the different clients in identifying their available exemptions and exceptions under IFRS 1 and the impact of IFRS 1 on taxes as a result of the initial increase to the fair value (to take the fair value as a deemed cost) resulted from a revaluation of a certain asset, temporary differences arising on initial recognition of an asset or liability, effect of deferred tax assets or liabilities for exchange gains or losses related to re-measuring subsidiaries financial statements to Canadian dollars and the effect on CTA.
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