Accounting for non-accountants

Is your business directly or indirectly impacted by accounting? Do you consider accounting as an important source of information impacting your decisions?

If so, it is essential for you to understand the main concepts of accounting in order to wisely use this data and understand its impact on your operations.

Price: 780.00 €

Duration: 4h

Language: Available in English and French. The supporting material is only available in English.

Number of participants: up to 20

You are interested in participating in this course but no sessions are currently scheduled? Please contact us and you will be added to our Show Interest list.

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Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • describe the basic principles of accounting;
  • identify the main valuation principles of various balance sheet items and their impacts on the annual accounts;
  • understand the accounting rules and methods for financing and investment instruments;
  • understand the annual accounts of a company.

Content

  • The objective of accounting
  • Balance sheet, profit and loss accounts: their meaning
  • The major accounting policies/conventions
  • Some essential accounting classifications like:
    • debt versus equity
    • fixed versus current asset
    • balance sheet versus off balance sheet items
  • Approval process and electronic filing procedure  

Target audience

  • Jurists and their employees
  • Tax specialists and their employees
  • Lawyers and their employees
  • Notaries and their employees
  • Internal auditors
  • Finance controllers
  • Beginners in accounting, accounting assistants and fiduciary staff willing to expand their knowledge of some specific accounting points

Our lead experts

This training is coordinated by Alexandre Leleux, Partner in the accounting and tax compliance practice of PwC Luxembourg and Damien Brunet, Director in the accounting technical team, in charge of the Luxembourg GAAP trainings.

The training will be presented by experts in the accounting field.

Alexandre is a partner of our ECF practice, active in the accounting and tax compliance of international tax structures, operational companies, real estate and private equity sector. He has over 18 years of experience in audit and accounting. His primary area of expertise is the preparation of financial statement under Lux GAAP, the conversion from GAAP to GAAP and the preparation of various reporting (CSSF, BCL,...) to ensure the accounting compliance of operational companies, management companies and international and private equity structures.

He is also the head of the Lux GAAP technical team of PwC Luxembourg advising multinational clients on the accounting queries from tax, audit and advisory departments of PwC Luxembourg and other PwC offices. He is also member of the editorial board of ACE, an accounting, tax and audit professional magazine in Luxembourg. 

Damien is a director in the accounting and tax compliance practice of PwC Luxembourg and the coordinator of the Luxembourg technical accounting group where he deals on a day-to-day basis with complex Lux GAAP transactions. He is also responsible of the e-accounts solution, a PwC’s online tool for the preparation and filing of annual accounts.

He is CCA (Certified Chartered Accountant) in Luxembourg and chartered accountant in France. He is also the president of the training’s commission at the OEC.

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Contact details

PwC's Academy, Crystal Park Building, PwC Luxembourg

Tel: +352 49 48 48 4040

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