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The round-table meetings provide an opportunity for the members of the two boards to hear input from a wide range of stakeholders, including users and preparers of financial statements, governments, regulators and others. The round-tables are intended to help the boards identify accounting issues that may require the urgent and immediate attention of the boards to improve financial reporting and help enhance investor confidence in financial markets.
The boards will also ask round-table participants to identify broader financial reporting issues arising from the global economic crisis. These issues will be given consideration by the high-level financial crisis advisory group established to assist the boards in responding to the crisis in an internationally co-ordinated manner. Further details on the composition of the advisory group will be announced shortly.
Location of round-tables
Europe
As previously announced the European round-table discussions will take place at Holborn Bars, 138─142 Holborn, London EC1N 2NQ.
The morning session will begin at 10.30 London time and the afternoon session at 13.00 London time. Registrations are required by 7 November 2008.
United States
The US round-tables will take place on the afternoon of November 25, 2008 at the offices of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, 401 Merritt 7, P.O. Box 5116, Norwalk, Connecticut 06856-5116. Registrations are required by 18 November 2008.
Asia
The Asian round-tables will take place in the afternoon of 3 December 2008 at the offices of the Accounting Standards Board of Japan, Fukoku Seimei Building 20F, 2-2, Uchisaiwaicho 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0011, Japan. Registrations are required by 26 November 2008.
Information about related materials, timing and other specifics about the US and Asian round-tables will be posted on FASB and IASB Websites soon.
How to participate
To register your interest in attending a joint round-table discussion, please email Victoria Blackburn at vblackburn@iasb.org or Alicia Posta at aaposta@fasb.org with details of your name, organisation and your round-table location preference. Please also state if you wish to attend as a participant or an observer.
Note that although we aim to admit every interested party to the round-tables, there may not be room for all those who wish to attend. A live audio Webcast of the non-U.S. round-tables will be available from this Website. The U.S. (Norwalk) round-table audio Webcast will be available on the FASB Website.
Press enquiries
- Mark Byatt, Director of Corporate Communications, IASB
Telephone: 44 (0)20 7246 6472
Email: mbyatt@iasb.org
- Neal McGarity, Director of Communications, FASB
Telephone: 203-956-5347
Email: nemcgarity@f-a-f.org
- Sonja Horn, Communications Advisor
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7246 6463
email: shorn@iasb.org
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