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Accounting and Auditing Update


Total Credits: 4 including 2 Accounting - Technical, 2 Auditing- Technical

Average Rating:
   20
Categories:
Accounting and Auditing |  Partner Produced
Faculty:
Paul N. Brown, CPA, CGMA
Course Levels:
Update
Duration:
4 Hours
License:
Product Setting: Expires 40 day(s) after program date.

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Description

Learn about the new 2018 and 2017 Accounting Standards Codification and Updates. Areas covered will be Revenue Recognition, Leases, and Financial Instruments, and other important GAAP changes, GAAP, GAAS, and SSARS s (SSARS 21, 22, and 23)) from 2018 and 2017. Practical solutions to complex issues will be offered. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss issues they need information for.

 

Basic Course Information

Learning Objectives *Provide participant with an update and review of new and selected revised professional GAAP, GAAS, and SSARS standards for 2018 and 2017
Major Subjects

*FASB Update (includes Accounting Standards Codification  and selected  new pronouncements for dealing with the 2018 income tax changes)

*Brief discussion on the FASB and the IASB and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) status

*GAAS Update and new SASs including  areas of documentation and reporting for audits

*SSARS Update (includes  SSARS 21, 22, & 23 for Preparation and Compilation), new engagement letters, new reports, new documentation standards, and review representation letters specified in SSARS

*Updates on Peer Review and related regulatory problems

*Ethics Interpretation 1.295 and revisions in attest/nonattest applications

*Documentation standards are reviewed

*Any other matters deemed appropriate and timely

*Any questions that participants deem important


Course Materials

Faculty

Paul N. Brown, CPA, CGMA's Profile

Paul N. Brown, CPA, CGMA Related Seminars and Products

Director of Technical Services

Florida Institute of CPAs


Paul Brown joined the FICPA in November 1992 and is the Director of Technical Services for the Florida Institute of CPAs (FICPA). One of Paul’s main duties is to serve as the technical reviewer in Florida for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Peer Review Program. The program administers approximately 425 reviews annually in Florida and oversees approximately 125 peer reviewers. Paul also assists members in the areas of professional ethics and professional standards. As part of his role in the peer review program Paul has previously been an instructor and author of continuing education programs for the AICPA and FICPA, for which he had received several outstanding discussion leader and author awards.

Paul has also served on the AICPA’s Technical Reviewers Advisory Task Force to the Peer Review Board and serves as staff liaison to two committees of the FICPA. Paul currently is serving in the capacity as Chair of the Audit Committee for the City of Tallahassee. Prior to joining the FICPA, Paul was an audit manager with the regional firm of Williams, Cox, Weidner & Cox (now Carr, Riggs & Ingram) in Tallahassee, Florida. Paul holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and finance from Florida State University and has been licensed as a CPA since 1988.


Additional Info

Basic Course Information

Advanced Preparation None
Course Developer FICPA
Date Added to Catalog 03/09/2018
Designed For Professionals in public practice, industry, government, and education who deal with nonpublic entities and desire an update on the more important accounting, auditing, review, and compilation standards. 
Original Recording Date 06/05/2018
Prerequisites None
Yellow Book No

Additional Information

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Instructional Delivery Method Group Internet Based
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Course Registration Requirements

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