Lunch Session: IT IFRS Considerations by Ken Conway (Director, Protiviti), Shirley Karnos (Senior Consultant, Protiviti), and Kevin Casselbury (Consultant, Protiviti).

Afternoon Session: Payment Card Industry Compliance by Pablo Hernandez (Senior Manager, PricewaterhouseCoopers)

Lunch Session: International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are the principles-based financial reporting requirements adhered to by more and more countries worldwide. Conversion to IFRS is well underway in many nations, including Canada, India, Japan and Mexico. These standards are very likely coming to the United States as well, although the timing is uncertain with the SEC pondering changes to its proposed Roadmap. A shift from US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) to IFRS affects not only the accounting and finance functions, but also the information systems that are vital to supporting those functions. Has your IT organization considered the impact of IFRS on its systems?

Please join us for a presentation on how IT organizations are planning for IFRS:
• Latest developments on SEC’s proposed Roadmap
• Infrastructure considerations
• IFRS transition diagnostic / assessment
• Impact of IFRS on information systems
• Recommended practices for IFRS readiness assessment

Afternoon Session: Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance continues to move up in priority and IT security spend as the card brands Visa, MasterCard, JCB, American Express, and Discover ramp up enforcement of the Data Security Standards (DSS) required for merchants or service providers which store, process, or transmit cardholder data. During this time of increased attention, merchants are teaming up with vendors and service providers to identify and deploy technologies such as end-to-end encryption and tokenization with the intent of reducing their scope of compliance and enhancing their protection over cardholder data. Come join us for a discussion of the technologies PwC is seeing in the marketplace, as well as other PCI hot topics on the minds of Internal Audit and Security professionals including the Internal Security Assessor program and the next version of the DSS.

Speaker Information:
Lunch Session

Ken Conway
Ken Conway is a Director in the Phoenix office of Protiviti. Ken has over 20 years experience in public accounting and industry. Prior to joining Protiviti in July 2006, Ken held executive positions in corporate and operating financial management at both small and multi-billion dollar companies.

At Protiviti, Ken specializes in advising CFO’s on implementing new accounting pronouncements and evaluating the accounting issues related to complex transactions. He also specializes in implementing processes to improve the accuracy and timeliness of financial reporting, in high-growth and rapidly changing environments, including turnarounds, integrating acquisitions and asset divestitures.

Shirley Karnos
Shirley Karnos is a Senior Consultant in the Phoenix office of Protiviti. Shirley has worked on engagements in various industries, including private higher education, healthcare, government, and hospitality industries. Her experience includes Sarbanes-Oxley compliance engagements, business process and information technology internal audits and consulting engagements, and business continuity planning projects.

Kevin Casselbury
Kevin Casselbury is a Consultant in the Phoenix office of Protiviti. Kevin has performed various technology risk consulting and audit engagements across several different industries. Some of the audits he has performed include SOX, Pre-Implementation Projects, VPN, PeopleSoft, and SDLC. Additionally, Kevin has helped develop a tool for a client’s Internal Audit department to investigate issues across their databases. He has also been involved in the following industries: Education, Financial Services, Construction, Software, Health Care, and Hospitality, Leisure and Travel.

Afternoon Session

Pablo Hernandez
Pablo has nearly 12 years of experience with PricewaterhouseCoopers in performing internal, external, operational and system audits. His experience includes both highly technical and detailed system audits to business process consulting projects to assist business improve efficiencies and cut costs. He has helped clients identify and manage risks inherent in the development, implementation, and use of the computer systems on which they rely upon for complete, accurate and secure reporting. Pablo has a BS in Accounting from Brigham Young University. He has managed PCI reviews at large international clients in the Southern California Market where he evaluated their compliance to the DSS and helped them identify a remediation plan and roadmap. These engagements evaluated the technologies employed, documentation maintained and the technology architecture proposed for compliance.

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Additional Information For This Meeting:

There will be up to 3 CPEs available for attending this event.

Location: The DoubleTree Hotel, 320 N 44th St, NW Corner of 44th Street and Van Buren
Phoenix, Arizona 85008

The registration fee is $40 (for members) and $60 (for non-members).

Payments can be made in advance through CVENT using American Express, Visa, MC and Discover Card. We will no longer accept cash or check on the date of the event unless prior arrangements have been made in advance.

Registration: 11:30am

Lunch: 12:00pm

End of day: 3:15pm

Deadline for Registration by the end of the day on Monday, May 24, 2010.

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