International Financial Reporting Standards (One-day Workshop) (IFRS-1)

The International Accounting Standard Board(IASB), the Financial Accounting Standard Boards (FASB) and other financial accounting boards, including Accounting Standards Board in Japan(ASBJ) are committed to developing, in the public interest, a single set of high quality, understandable, and enforceable global accounting standards and reporting requirements. Based on these movements, both Japan and US decided to assess the feasibility that IFRS can be adopted from 2015. So, we are now in the midst of change in accounting rules.

This workshop will offer the opportunity to examine the basics of the International Financial Reporting Standards(IFRS), and also provide the participants with an overview of the IASB's Framework and the Security Exchange Commission's Roadmap for international conversion to International Financial Reporting Standards.


Instructor: Toshiki Onozuka
Toshiki Onozuka has been working as a controller of an American entertainment company in Tokyo since 2005. Before that, he worked as a Finance Director for an American engine company for one year and played diverse roles in an American petroleum company for over 20 years.

Besides his management tasks, he experienced a diversity of jobs in accounting and finance, performing such functions such as Controller, Treasurer, Strategic Planner and as a member of the SAP Project team. He obtained his MBA from the University of Washington, and his CPA license from the Washington State Board of Accountancy. He has been teaching at Temple University Japan Campus since the year 2000.