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Steve Collings is the audit and technical director at Leavitt Walmsley Associates Ltd, a firm of Chartered Certified Accountants based in Manchester in the United Kingdom. Steve trained and qualified with the firm and specializes in financial reporting (UK GAAP and IFRS), auditing, and solicitors accounts rules. Steve qualified with the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) in 2001 and then qualified as an Associate Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA) in 2005, becoming a Fellow Chartered Certified Accountant in 2010. Steve also holds the ACCA's Certificates in International Financial Reporting Standards and International Standards on Auditing, and has a Diploma in International Financial Reporting Standards, which he obtained in 2008.

Steve has been writing professionally for several years and is the author of several articles that have been published in the various accounting media, primarily AccountingWEB.co.uk. In addition, Steve is also the author of Interpretation and Application of International Standards on Auditing (Wiley, March 2011) and IFRS For Dummies (Wiley, April 2012), as well as the author of other publications on IFRS. Steve also lectures to professional accountants on areas of financial reporting, company law, auditing and solicitors accounts rules. Much of Steve's work can be seen on his personal website at www.stevecollings.co.uk.

In 2011, Steve was named Accounting Technician of the Year at the 2011 British Accountancy Awards.

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