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PDS Summit in Chicago
More than 40 professionals attended the two-day
PDS Americas Leadership Conference in Chicago.
The meeting objective was to communicate and
integrate PDS’ operating platform for each region,
product and specialty area to successfully drive
strategy, integration, adoption and execution for
growth.
The conference started off with a conversation
from
Tod Lickerman
, Global President;
Joe
Stettinius
, Chief Executive – Americas; and
Shawn
Mobley
, President, East Region. Following the
overview,
Steve Quick
, Chief Executive, GOS, and
Kay Barrett
, Senior Vice President, PDS, GOS,
discussed PDS’ objectives, differentiators, strategy
and integration. They also noted the opportunity
the firm has to leverage the PDS practice to drive
growth.
Full House at Lease Accounting
Breakfast Seminar in London
The EMEA GOS Team held a session for clients
and employees, “A new era for lease accounting
– are you ready?” which addressed the new lease
accounting standard, IFRS 16.
In January 2016, the IASB released a new lease
accounting standard, IFRS 16. This was closely
followed by the publication of a new standard
from the FASB, governing body responsible for US
GAAP, in February 2016.
This represents a fundamental shift in the
approach to reporting lease obligations and will
have significant knock on effects for Corporate
Real Estate, from strategy and policy setting at
one end of the spectrum to data management and
reporting at the other.
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