Live Stream: Accounting, Audit, and Attest Update for Practitioners with Small-Business Clients

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Description

Specifically tailored for practitioners who not only perform audits but provide other attest and non-attest services to small and medium-sized businesses, this course is a comprehensive update covering recently issued accounting, auditing, and SSARS standards, as well as other professional guidance impacting small and medium-sized business accountants. The course uses practical examples and illustrations to help you understand and apply the new guidance. Through a detailed review of the new lease accounting guidance, common special purpose frameworks, new guidance related to audits and SSARS engagements, and the soon-to-be-effected credit loss standard, this course will get you up to speed on the things that are most important to your smaller and medium-sized clients.

Credits

Number of Credits Type of Credits
2.00 Auditing
6.00 Accounting

Designed For

Practitioners at all levels who provide non-audit and non-attest services to small and medium-sized businesses desiring to remain up to date on recent pronouncements and other standard setter activities and professional guidance

Prerequisites

Experience in accounting and auditing

Highlights

  • Private company standard setting activities
  • Small and medium-sized business-related ASUs
  • Lease accounting update
  • Lessons adopted from the adoption of Topic 606
  • Special purpose frameworks - Cash, modified cash, and tax basis
  • Common small and medium-sized business financial statement errors and deficiencies
  • Newly issued SSARS and SSAE standards
  • SASs effective for 2022 year-end audits

Objectives

  • Keep abreast of current private company standard setting activities of the PCC
  • Review recently issued accounting and non-audit attestation pronouncements and hot topics
  • Identify key accounting implications related to new ASUs and ASC Topics 842 and 326
  • Understand new guidance applicable to auditing, SSARS and attest engagements
  • Be aware of other important guidance affecting small and medium-sized business practitioners

Prices

Member (Early Bird)
$299.00
Non-Member (Early Bird)
$399.00
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$299.00
Non-Member
$399.00
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Instructors

Sharon L. Martin

Sharon L. Martin, MBA, CPA, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Accountancy at Weatherhead School of Management (WSOM) at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Sharon twice served as the Associate Dean for Finance and Administration at WSOM and co-chaired the strategic planning committee. Sharon received the 2018 Outstanding Undergraduate Faculty Advocate award. She has also been nominated for outstanding faculty member by Gamma Sigma Alpha and nominated for the WSOM Undergraduate Teaching Award multiple times. Martin is a graduate of John Carroll University. She obtained her Executive MBA from Baldwin Wallace University and gained Certificates in Women’s Leadership and Executive Coaching from Case Western Reserve as well. Martin’s career spanned 25 years at Ernst & Young in various roles in the audit practice, including principal in the Global Assurance Advisory Business Services (AABS) group, executive director in the Americas Quality and Risk Management team, and the global director of AABS Technology

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