Every day our organization thinks about how we can better help finance teams achieve their goals and overcome challenges, including accounting change. Well, who better to help provide perspective than our own finance leaders? Today we’re turning...

By now, most public companies have adopted the new lease accounting standards as required on Jan. 1, 2019. However, given the rush toward compliance – in a Q4 2018 survey only 4% of public companies had reported completing their leasing...

In early 2016 when the FASB and IASB issued the new lease accounting standards, ASC 842 and IFRS 16, the effective date of December 15, 2019 for private companies likely felt very far away.

Many organizations use regulatory change initiatives as a catalyst for Finance Transformation and indeed in the case of FASB’s latest accounting standard - an update to Topic 944 (ASU 2018-12), otherwise known as LDTI - the conversations...

As finance leaders at US Insurers come out of year-end close efforts, they are expected to quickly turn their attention to ASU 2018-12 - FASB’s update to Topic 944 known within the industry as LDTI (‘Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for...

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of leading a panel discussion at the InsuranceERM IFRS 17 Event in London.  Finance leaders from global insurers Aviva, Assicurazioni Generali SpA, Allianz, and Gjensidige Forsikring ASA joined me on the conference...

James Brittle has been Head of the Aptitude Centre of Excellence (CoE) since its inception in 2016. Before that he spent 6 years as Head of Presales for Aptitude Software.  

There is no doubt about it - accounting subledgers are a hot topic of conversation in the world of insurers. And from what we have seen, it's IFRS 17 which is shining this new-found spotlight on subledgers and subledger strategy. 

IFRS 17 is a new accounting paradigm for insurers requiring significant changes to accounting treatments. Unlike Solvency II and other insurance regulations before it, IFRS 17 requires a much greater degree of collaboration between actuaries,...

We recently sat down with Aptitude Software clients, Brian Dean (T-Mobile,) Kyle Jones (Rogers Communications Inc.,) and Lee Hendrickson (24 Hour Fitness,) to discuss revenue recognition compliance challenges, lessons learned and how they plan to...