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The IFRS 17 implementation manual for Caribbean accountants.

For finance directors, audit managers, and senior accountants at Caribbean insurers and their auditors. Eight to ten hours of careful reading; one year of access; a question bank that runs alongside the chapters.

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Course 01 v3.0 · 2026 ed.

IFRS 17 for Accountants.

Written by Wayne F. Deane. Audited against the standard issued by the IASB.

  • FormatReader, calculators, question bank, final assessment
  • Running caseFLIC, a composite Caribbean insurer
  • ClosureCertificate in your legal name
  • SupportEmail answered by Wayne
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Three more titles in the next four quarters.

Waitlist members receive a single email per quarter and an early-access discount when the course opens. No newsletter, no other use of the address.

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Course 02
Coming soon · Q3 2026

IFRS 9: Financial Instruments.

Expected credit loss on Caribbean lending portfolios, hedge accounting in plain language, and the disclosures auditors actually test.

Approx. 14 chaptersJoin waitlist →
Course 03
Coming soon · Q4 2026

Business Valuations.

Discounted cash flow, multiples, and closely-held SMEs. Built for accountants who get asked to value a business once a year and want a defensible model.

Approx. 12 chaptersJoin waitlist →
Course 04
Coming soon · Q1 2027

Financial Literacy for Professionals.

Statement-reading for non-finance leaders. Designed for senior teams that work alongside finance and want to read a board pack confidently.

Approx. 9 chaptersJoin waitlist →
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The first chapter is the standard read aloud in plain English: scope, key definitions, and the structure of the rest of the manual. It is the same reader, the same footnotes, and the same case study Renee will work through later.

  • 1.What the standard replaces, and why the change matters to Caribbean insurers.
  • 2.The four measurement models in one paragraph each, with the test for which one applies.
  • 3.How the rest of the course is organised, chapter by chapter.
  • 4.The FLIC trial balance you will return to in Chapter 14.
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Chapter 01 · Excerpt

The standard, in one paragraph.

IFRS 17 replaces IFRS 4 with a single, principles-based measurement model for insurance contracts. It asks you to identify the contract, group it with similar contracts, measure the future cash flows you expect, discount them to today, add a risk adjustment, and lay the profit out across the period of cover. The audit committee wants to see the journals; this manual shows them to you.

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Wayne F. Deane
FCA, MBA
Your instructor

Wayne F. Deane.

Twenty years inside Caribbean finance and audit. Author of the manual this course is built on.

Wayne has audited insurers in Trinidad, Jamaica, Barbados, and Guyana, sat on audit committees in two of them, and spent the last six years writing the textbook that became the IFRS 17 course. The reader, the calculators, the question bank, and the final assessment are all his work.

Qualifications
FCA, MBA
Practice
Trinidad, Jamaica, Barbados, Guyana
Specialism
IFRS 17, IFRS 9, audit committee work
Based
Bridgetown, Barbados
The running case study Fortune Life Insurance Company (FLIC) is a composite Caribbean insurer used end to end. Its trial balance, its product mix, and its disclosure notes appear in every worked example, so the journals in Chapter 14 are the consequence of the contracts you measured in Chapter 4.
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