Pension Fund Accounting
Course
In Dublin (Ireland)
Description
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Type
Course
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Location
Dublin (Ireland)
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Duration
2 Days
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Start date
Different dates available
This unusual course gives a background in Pension Fund Accounting and how the latest changes in accounting are impacting on the calculation of the pension fund reserves. Suitable for: Accounting staff with a daily involvement with accounting issues which require a thorough accounting view of the transactions undertaken.
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About this course
Delegates should have attended the Accounting for Investment course or have more than 9 months experience to follow this course.
Reviews
Subjects
- Trusts
- Staff
- Financial Accounting
- Transactions
- Public
- Private
- Property
- Pension Funds
- Derivatives
- Tax
Course programme
Pension Fund Accounting Training Course
If you have several people to train then an in- house tailored Pension Fund Accounting course may prove to be more economical for your organisation, as we come to your offices reducing travelling and accommodation costs to yourselves.
We can tailor the course to meet your needs, we can run the course using the same content as the Pubic course or we can add / amend to suit your needs.
The course covers basic actuarial reserving and includes an analytic approach to the requirement contain in the latest version of the SORP. This is an increasingly complex area of accounting which continues to demand a thorough knowledge of accounts.
The course concentrates on occupational pension funds and small self administered schemes. The course will examine direct and indirect investment including that for OEICs, Unit Trusts REITs and especially property including the new vehicle REITs.
Content (Public Course)
- Introduction to Pension Fund Accounting
- Valuation concepts, the actuarial principle, reserving and asset allocation
- Fixed interest, amortisation, matching accruals, held for sale and to be held to redemption
- Conversions and asset switching, Memorandum Accounting
- Equity holdings, private shares and unit trusts and OEICS
- Principle of income and capital including tax credits and income tax deduction
- Foreign income and holdings, double tax credits and systems of taxation reclaims
- The use of derivatives in Pension Funds, including Swaps, OTC contracts, embedded derivatives
- SORP accounting and the impact of the international provisions
- The impact of IAS and IFRS when applied voluntarily
- Hedging vs non-Hedging accounting
Additional information
Pension Fund Accounting