Events And Happenings

A Quarterly Newsletter from UAE and Oman

VOL 21 ISSUE 1 January 2019

IFRS Training
All UAE assurance and back-office partners and staff attended training on IFRS 15: Revenue from Contracts with Customers and IFRS 9: Financial Instruments, at the Roda Al Bustan Hotel, Dubai on 17 November 2018. The training was conducted by internationally renowned authority on IFRS, Mike Turner.

Training by PKF International
Partners, directors and managers from PKF UAE and other participating member firms in the Europe-Middle East-India (EMEI) region participated in a training program conducted by PKF International. The training was held at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Dubai, over 25 and 26 November 2018.

Training on AML and GDPR
A training session covering Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Thomson Reuters Accelus Screening, and an overall briefing session on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was conducted at the India Club on 17 December 2018 which was attended by all partners and staff of the UAE practice.

Sage Award
Sage Middle East conferred on PKF, at its partners’ recognition event on 16 October 2018, its “Best Advisor for 2018” award. The award recognised PKF as being the earliest adoptor of Sage’s cloud-based, VAT-ready accounting software SageOne for its outsourced accounting clients. Photo shows Hoshedar Cooper, Associate Partner, accepting the award on behalf of the firm.