IFRS 17

No. It's a practitioner course. It assumes you already know what a present value and an insurance liability are. If you're starting from scratch, you'll want a more foundational programme first. We can suggest one.

The video material is roughly two hours of teaching, so technically you can get through it once in a single afternoon. Please don't. The course is broken into around six distinct topic groupings (scope and aggregation, building-block measurement, the three approaches, onerous mechanics, presentation and disclosure, transition and elections), and each grouping is its own self-contained, fairly dense piece of teaching. You wouldn't watch a soap opera back-to-back with a horror movie. Same idea here. Take your time, pause between groupings, let one settle before you start the next.

Over your year of access I expect you to revisit sections four or five times as the work in front of you changes: reporting close, an onerous test landing on a portfolio, transition discussions with audit. The PDFs are there for the moments in between.

Most importantly, act like a practitioner rather than a student. Read the standard alongside the videos. Take notes. Print the PDFs and highlight them. Engage in discussions with colleagues. Revisit decisions you've already made on your book and ask whether the standard agrees. Write policy papers when something doesn't sit right. The course is a structured way in; the work afterwards is what makes you fluent.

The course also includes open-ended discussion prompts woven through each major section. No model answers, no neat resolutions, just questions to sit with. Imagine yourself in an audit-committee meeting, making a real decision with less-than-perfect information. That is the posture the course is preparing you for. Treat the prompts as rehearsals: form a view, defend it, write it down, then check it against how your own organisation actually decided.

A nod to paragraphs 1–132 of IFRS 17. One flat price for the whole course, one year of access, and a 30-minute goodwill discussion session with the instructor. No upsells, no hidden tiers.

Thirty minutes of the instructor's time, offered as a goodwill discussion session. It is not a consultancy engagement, it is not a guarantee, and it is not separately monetisable. It is a fair add-on to the course price so that you can sense-check your thinking with someone who works with the standard daily.

A few ground rules so we stay fair to each other:

• It is the student's responsibility to schedule the session and agree the scope in advance.
• The session is for discussion, not paid advisory work. Please don't treat the course as a free-consultancy pathway.
• Bring a specific question, a paragraph, or a contract excerpt. Open-ended "tell me about IFRS 17" sessions are not the best use of either of our time.
• To be booked within your year of access, subject to availability.

As soon as you enroll. Access opens immediately on payment via Thinkific. Work through the segments at your own pace. Most learners finish the video material inside a week and use the resources for the rest of the year.

Yes, a completion certificate is issued when you finish the curriculum and it names this as a Practitioner-level IFRS 17 Course. But that is not really the point of the course. The bigger certificate is being able to read IFRS 17 like a practitioner: pick up the standard, find the paragraph that governs the question in front of you, and apply it without flinching. If you walk away with that, you have something far more valuable than a PDF certificate to attach to your LinkedIn profile.

Yes, and we actively encourage it. Invoice in USD or GBP available. For employers enrolling multiple members of staff, a cohort discount is available — drop a line to jabran@ifrs-17.com with how many seats you'd like and we'll come back with a tiered quote and a single invoice with a PO number if your finance team needs one. The course is well suited to team-wide training where everyone needs a shared, paragraph-anchored reference point.

It is extremely likely to qualify for Continuing Professional Development credits with actuarial, accounting and other professional bodies. The course content is comprehensive enough to count: roughly two hours of structured teaching, paragraph-anchored throughout, plus written practice questions, downloadable reference resources and a goodwill 1:1 discussion. We can't give you a formal guarantee — every professional body has its own rules and most operate on self-certification with periodic audit, so the call sits with you and your body's CPD framework. What we can give you is the completion certificate, a curriculum outline, and an itemised time log of what you covered, all of which can be submitted as supporting evidence.

Yes, and that's a separate paid engagement, not part of the course. I run an active IFRS 17 consultancy practice covering technical advisory, audit and actuarial expert support, calculation-engine design, and end-to-end implementation work. The 30-minute goodwill 1:1 inside the course is for course-related discussion only. If you have a defined piece of work in mind, email jabran@ifrs-17.com with a brief scope and we'll set up a separate conversation.

The standard is reflected as at the June 2020 amendments, with all subsequent IASB interpretation guidance through 2026. Updates push to your account during your access window at no extra cost.

No money changes hands with me directly. All payments are processed by Thinkific, the third-party learning platform that hosts the course, using their own PCI-compliant checkout (Stripe / PayPal on the back end). Your card details never touch my systems. I receive enrollment notifications and a payout from Thinkific in arrears, the same way it works for any course on their platform. If you have a payment problem, Thinkific's support handles refunds and disputes under their standard terms; I'm happy to chase on your behalf if anything goes wrong, but the financial relationship is between you and Thinkific.

Click Enroll on Thinkific above. That takes you straight to the secure Thinkific checkout. Access opens immediately on payment. Any questions before you sign up, email jabran@ifrs-17.com.