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Current Issues in Accounting & Auditing: An Annual Update

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4.00 Credits

Member Price $175.00

Non-Member Price $200.00

Overview

Designed for accounting and attestation practitioners at all levels in both public accounting and business and industry, this course provides a detailed review of SAS No. 145 and brings you up to date on FASB and AICPA standards issued over the past few years.  The course also provides many hands-on examples to help apply the guidance in practice and discusses other important A&A practice matters to be aware of, including and update on peer review and audit quality.

Highlights

  • Recently issued FASB Accounting Standards Updates, the PCC Update, and items on the FASB's Technical Agenda
  • Leases -- Topic 842
  • Review of SAS No. 142 -- Audit Evidence
  • Recently issued SASs and other AICPA activity
  • Detailed review of SAS No. 145
  • Other important A&A practice matters

Prerequisites

Experience in accounting and attestation

Designed For

Accounting and attestation practitioners at all levels desiring to remain up to date on recent pronouncements and other standard setters’ activities

Objectives

After attending this presentation you will be able to:

  • Recall and apply recently issued and proposed FASB and AICPA pronouncements
  • Recall and apply guidance from ASC Topc 842, Leases
  • Understand SAS Nos. 142 and 145
  • Identify other important A&A practice matters to be aware of
  • Utilize hands-on examples and illustrations to demonstrate an overall understanding and application of the material

Preparation

None

Leader(s):

Leader Bios

Jack Georger Jr, AICPA

John “Jack” Georger, CPA, CIA Las Vegas, NV Jack Georger has served a broad base of clients, including port authorities, higher education institutions, community service organizations, foundations, counties, school districts, cities, and employee retirement systems. In addition, the commercial clients he has served include construction, real estate, aerospace, research and development, agricultural, and professional service firms. Jack has also consulted on numerous budgets and rate and cost studies for municipal authorities, as well as the design and implementation of internal control systems for various entities. During his career, Jack has had the opportunity to audit publicly traded companies, both accelerated filers under PCAOB Auditing Standards and non-accelerated filers; major U.S. cities and counties; colleges and universities; and some of the largest not-for-profit organizations in the United States. Jack is licensed to practice as a certified public accountant (CPA) in the states of California, New York, Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina (inactive), Nevada, Connecticut (inactive), Wyoming (inactive), and Georgia (inactive), and in the District of Columbia(inactice); he is also a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA). He is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors, California Society of Certified Public Accountants (CSCPA), New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA), Nevada Society of Certified Public Accountants, and Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA). Jack currently serves on the Financial Accounting Standards Committee, Not-For-Profit Committee, Sustainability Committee, and Government Accounting and Auditing Committee of the NYSSCPA. Jack has been a member of the GFOA Special Review Committee for the Certificate of Achievement for Financial Reporting since 1990. Jack graduated from George Mason University with a degree in Business Administration, and he first became a CPA in the state of Connecticut in 1981. He was in private practice in New York, where his firm provided auditing, accounting, and tax services to various local governments, not-for-profit organizations, small businesses, and individuals for over twenty years. Since selling his practice in 2001, Jack has been an Audit Senior Manager with KPMG, LLP and Pricewaterhouse Coopers, LLP; a partner in a regional firm in Los Angeles; Audit Director with McGladrey and Pullen, LLP; and, currently, a partner with the Pun Group, LLP

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  • Kurtis Allen - Holmes & Turner PC (Bozeman, 59715)
  • Scott Cichosz - Archie Cochrane Motors Inc (Billings, 59102)
  • Donald Davies - Donald Nolan Davies CPA (Clinton, 59825)
  • Andrew Durkin - Durkin CPA PLLC (Butte, 59701)
  • Dena Gormely - Montana School Services Foundation (Helena, 59601)
  • Thomas Hayes - Strom & Associates (Billings, 59101)
  • Travis Kennedy
  • Susan Nicosia
  • JohnPaul Poelman - Strom & Associates (Billings, 59101)
  • Ross Stalcup - Ross R Stalcup CPA PC (Ashland, 59003)
  • Paul Strom - Strom & Associates (Billings, 59101)

Non-Member Price $200.00

Member Price $175.00