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IFRS Fundamentals for Oil & Gas Industry
Course Description
International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) provide the basis for financial reporting to the capital markets in over 165 countries. The oil and gas industry has specific accounting and disclosure requirements for exploration, development and production activities. IFRS 6 Exploration for and Evaluation of Mineral Resources provides some guidance for the entities in the extractive industry. This four-day comprehensive course covers the impact of diverse accounting practices for upstream business, accounting issues in development andproduction stage, and the disclosures in relation to oil & gas companies reserves. In addition, the course covers the principles in relation to leases, joint arrangements, revenue recognition, accounting for financial instruments, hedging, acquisition accounting and consolidation. This course covers the specific standards that are key to the preparation and analysis of oil and gas entity’s financial statements

The course is useful for preparers and users of IFRS financial statements of oil and gas companies, including those seeking a comprehensive understanding of the key IFRS accounting issues in the industry. This includes staff in finance, treasury, operations, internal and external auditors, analysts, senior management andexecutives.

A basic understanding of financial statements under any GAAP is a pre-requisite

• We facilitate learning through a combination of techniques listed below:
• Pre-workshop questionnaire for participants to confirm their expectations
• Presentation of core knowledge and concepts including group discussions
• Real-world case studies to enable learning by doing
• Short case studies to confirm achievement of learning outcomes

Day 1
Module 1:

Introduction
Overview of oil and gas operations
• Definition of reserves
Module 2
:

IFRS Fundamentals for Oil and Gas and Accounting Issues in Exploration
Overview of financial reporting considerations
• IAS 16 Property, plant and equipment and IAS 38 Intangible Assets: Initial recognition and subsequent
measurement, depreciation/amortisation methods
• Upstream business: Successful efforts vs Full cost methods, IFRS 6 accounting approach
• Accounting issues in exploration and evaluation: Pre-exploration costs, non-drilling exploration costs,
dry holes, impairment of unproved property, reclassifications, suspended wells


Day 2
Module 3:

Development and Production
Accounting issues in development
• Treatment of borrowing costs: Capitalisation vs Expensing
• Provisions and asset retirement obligations
• Accounting issues in production
• ·Measurement of inventories

Module 4:

Leases
• Objective and scope of IFRS 16
• Lease and non-lease components
• Optional recognition exemptions
• Initial recognition and subsequent measurement by lessee
• Overview of lessor accounting
Module 5:

Impairment of Non-Financial Assets
• I
ndicators of impairment
• Impairment of exploration and evaluation, development and production assets
• Determination of recoverable amount
• Cash generating unit vs individual asset impairment
• Reversals of impairment
• Disclosures

Day 3

Module 6:

Revenue Recognition
• ·Core principle
• ·The five-step framework and application guidance
• ·Application to oil and gas companies
Module 7:

Joint Arrangements and Accounting for Conveyances
• Joint operation vs joint venture
• Overview of production sharing contracts
• Accounting for conveyances in oil and gas
Module 8:

Reserves Reporting
• Supplementary disclosure requirements
• Management commentary
• Exploration, development and production costs
• Proved oil and gas reserve quantities
• US SEC vs IFRS
• Standardised measure of discounted future net cash flows
• Reserves ratios
Day 4
Module 9:

Financial Instruments and Financial Risk Management
• Overview of financial risks in oil and gas entity
• IAS 21 Effects of changes in foreign exchange rates
• IAS 32 Presentation of Financial Instruments: Financial liability vs Equity
• IFRS 9 Classification and Measurement: Classification of financial assets and financial liabilities,
Amortized cost vs Fair value
• Overview of derivatives and hedging
• Hedge accounting: Types of IFRS 9 hedges and accounting
• Designating hedged items and hedging instruments
• Hedge effectiveness testing and rebalancing
• Discontinuation of hedge accounting
• Fair value option: own use

Module 10:

Business Combinations and Consolidation
• IFRS 3 Accounting for acquisitions
• IFRS 10 Application of the definition of “control” and consolidation accounting principles

BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 75% of the total course duration.

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Course Rounds

5 Days
Code Date Venue Fees Action
ACC154-02
2026-07-06
Istanbul
USD 5950
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ACC154-03
2026-09-13
Casablanca
USD 5950
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ACC154-04
2026-11-01
Dubai
USD 5450
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