The fundamentals of Luxembourg accounting

  • Do you need to prepare annual accounts for commercial and holding companies? 
  • Are you wondering which accounting principles and conventions are applicable in Luxembourg? 
  • Or how to manage your closing entries?

There are many questions which one may ask themselves.

This training gives an overview of the Luxembourg accounting regulatory framework based on concrete examples. It will provide participants with the practical knowledge they need to prepare the annual accounts of their company.

The course does not exhaustively cover all accounting rules or topics; it does not deal with complex accounting operations. However, it will give participants the basics they need for accounting in Luxembourg.

Duration: 4h

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

Number of participants: up to 15

Available as intra-company course (i.e. dedicated session on demand)

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Objectives

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

  • understand the basic principles of accounting; 
  • understand the main accounting valuation rules of various balance sheet items and their impacts on the annual accounts;
  • record standard operations as well as the closing booking entries according to the standard chart of accounts; 
  • prepare a balance sheet and a profit and loss account under eCDF format on the basis of simple operations.

Content

The accounting language: the annual accounts

  • The goals and functions of the accounting
  • The main balance sheet captions
  • Description of profit and loss accounts
  • The importance of the notes to the accounts

The major accounting policies/conventions

  • The general accounting principles and key concepts
  • The other general accounting principles
  • The principle of the double entry
  • Discussion of classification and initial/subsequent measurement
  • The standard chart of accounts

The basis of accounting entries

  • Accounting rules
  • Booking of invoices
  • Other examples of bookings

 

The closing accounting entries

  • The value adjustments on fixed assets elements
  • The value adjustments on current assets elements
  • The evaluation and the bookkeeping of the provisions
  • The principle of cut-off

The filing of the annual accounts

  • Legal time frame
  • Legal requirements
  • The filing process

Target audience

  • Beginners in accounting, administrative co-workers, and fiduciary staff (introductory level)
  • External and internal auditors

Our lead experts

This training is coordinated by Damien Brunet, Director at PwC Luxembourg.

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

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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