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FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING

Accounting & Auditing Update: A Complete Review of Key New Pronouncements
     This comprehensive seminar explains how to implement recent pronouncements and anticipate future developments. You'll be brought up to date on the latest FASB pronouncements and gain the understanding to apply them effectively and efficiently. The seminar focuses on many areas including the most recent Codification updates...exposure drafts...international convergence...updates on auditing, independence and ethics...and more.

Accounting for Derivatives: An Overview
     Designed for the financial professional who needs an overview or refresher on derivatives accounting, this seminar focuses on the building blocks of this complex financial reporting topic.

Accounting for Derivatives: Recent Developments
     Keeping pace with the current state of derivatives accounting is a challenge. This up-to-the-minute seminar will provide financial professionals with an update on the latest pronouncements and exposure drafts.

Accounting for Income Taxes: Level I
     FAS 109 (ASC 740) is the standard for accounting for income taxes. Hence, financial statement preparers and their accountants need to understand its complexities.

Accounting for International Operations
     International operations present an additional level of complexity for financial accounting professionals.

Business Combinations & Consolidations
     The rules for business combinations and consolidations are complex. To ensure financial statement compliance, financial professionals must possess a firm grasp of these rules.

Construction Industry Accounting & Financial Reporting
     Accountants and practitioners in the construction industry face unique challenges, especially with financial reporting of multi-year projects. How do you accurately compute expenses incurred to date, project final expenses and assess how change orders impact profitability?

Decoding the Codification: FASB's New Format for US GAAP
     As of September 15, 2009, financial statement disclosures must be in accordance with FASB’s Accounting Standards Codification TM (ASC). Are you as familiar with the Codification as you need to be?

Fair Value Accounting: Impact of FAS 157 & Beyond (ASC 820 & 825)
     FAS 157 (ASC 820) on fair value accounting represents a dramatic shift away from historical cost accounting--one that could significantly impact companies' financial statements. This seminar presents an in-depth discussion of fair value and how the rules will affect existing accounting and disclosure practices.

Fair Value Accounting: Valuation Techniques
     Like it or not, the fair value revolution is in full swing, making it critical for accountants to have a deeper understanding of how fair value measurements are developed and applied. The seminar will sharpen your valuation skills and enable you to correctly apply fair value in a variety of circumstances.

FAS 167/FIN 46R: The New Consolidation Rules
     FAS 167 introduces significant changes to the consolidation rules under FIN 46R. This seminar uses targeted examples to show you how to apply FIN 46R and how these changes will impact your company's consolidation process.

FAS 52 & Derivatives: Unraveling the Mystery of FX Accounting
     Do you have a handle on accounting for foreign currency transactions? Do you have a clear understanding of the difference between translation and remeasurement? Are foreign currency derivatives still a mystery?

FASB Hot Topics
     Some FASB pronouncements remain burning issues for years while others fade quietly into obscurity. This continually updated seminar focuses on the topics that are "top-of-mind" at FASB, be they new pronouncements or older edicts for which accountants continue to require guidance.

FIN 48: A Practical Approach
     For companies everywhere, recording income taxes in the financial statements presents a host of challenges. FIN 48 (ASC 740) takes those challenges to the next level with significant documentation and disclosure requirements.

Financial Accounting & Reporting Real Estate Transactions
     Broaden your understanding of real estate accounting. Work through problems and case studies that illustrate practical application issues.

Financial Accounting & Reporting Update for Corporate Accountants
     Increasingly complex and controversial accounting issues and disclosures burden busy financial executives.

Financial Accounting Issues for Manufacturers, Distributors & Retailers
     Accountants who work for or with manufacturing, wholesale and retail companies deal with a wide variety of challenges, including inventory, revenue recognition and industry-specific issues. This seminar addresses those issues, including these cutting-edge areas: inventories (valuations and methods)...warrantees, guarantees and returns...receivables...revenue, earnings management and expense recognition issues...impairments...retirement obligations...fair value...and the new rules for consolidations.

Financial Reform: Aftermath of the Credit Crisis
     The worst of the economic crisis may be behind us, but the regulatory response to it has only just begun.

Financial Reporting for Nonpublic Companies
     Do you find it frustrating or fruitless grappling with complicated accounting and reporting requirements only to discover they don't apply to your nonpublic company?

Financial Reporting in Troubled Times
     With challenging times come challenging financial reporting issues. Don't get caught flat-footed on the critical accounting topics that affect businesses in distress. This one-day seminar will give you the knowledge you need to help keep your company going during difficult times.

Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy
     In an era of rapid change and demanding capital markets, nearly every financial professional must deal with financial restructuring or bankruptcy, either as an employee of a financially troubled company or as a trade creditor, lender, strategic partner, and/or potential investor.

Form 10-K: A Hands-On Workshop
     Form 10-K is the major year-end reporting document. Recent requirements make it crucial to fully understand the legal, accounting and disclosure rules.

GAAP Refresher
     This continually updated seminar is perfect for the accountant who wants to maintain a sound working knowledge of common GAAP topics.

IFRS: A Comprehensive Two-Day Workshop
     For financial professionals who need to get quickly up to speed on IFRS, this two-day workshop will give you the background you need to understand the critical technical accounting issues that arise when applying IFRS.

IFRS: A One-Day Review & Update
     With the SEC on record as supporting a transition to IFRS, financial professionals must begin to gain an understanding of this increasingly global set of accounting standards.

IFRS: Transition & Conversion Issues
     With the SEC potentially mandating a switch from US GAAP to IFRS, companies may have a huge project on their hands. And if handled incorrectly, it could quickly become a costly fiasco.

Impairments & Intangibles: Current Accounting Issues
     Accounting for asset impairments and intangibles can be a minefield even for the seasoned professional. This seminar will give you a clear understanding of how to determine whether assets have become impaired and, if so, by how much. You'll learn about: determining fair value...the characteristics of intangible assets...goodwill impairment…asset retirement obligations…FASB Concepts Statement 7: Using Cash Flow Information and Present Value in Accounting Measurements...impairment triggers...discontinued operations...deferred taxes associated with depreciation and impairment...the impact of the new business combination rules on consolidations and intangibles...and more.

Leasing: Accounting & Disclosure Issues
     FAS 13--the bible on leasing--has been modified or amended by subsequent FASBs, technical bulletins, EITFs, FINs, FSPs and, most recently, the Codification. This seminar focuses on what you need to know about leasing in light of the latest regulatory changes.

Oil & Gas Accounting
     Oil and gas companies are significantly affected by special accounting rules and are always at the mercy of the business cycle. Industry accountants must also wade through unique tax issues.

Revenue Recognition & GAAP
     Revenue recognition is one of the most complex areas of financial reporting and accounts for the vast majority of restatements today. Accountants want to "get it right," but diverse historical practices and internal decision protocols can present serious hurdles.

Review of Recent GAAP
     This continually updated seminar is designed for the accountant who wants to keep abreast of the latest rules and regulations affecting financial accounting and reporting.

Risk Management: Internal Controls & Fraud Prevention
     Many organizations have gone through extensive efforts to comply with internal control regulations. This targeted seminar will provide you with a firm grasp of the common financial and operational risks that still confront companies and what you need to do, beyond insuring against them, to manage those risks. You'll explore: defining acceptable levels of risk...the accountant's role in risk management...risk identification...fraud risk factors...common tools to strengthen controls, limit risk and prevent fraud...hedging and derivatives as a way to reduce risk...and insurance options.

Sarbanes-Oxley: A Complete Review & Update
     The Sarbanes-Oxley Act may be the most important legislation affecting public companies and their auditors since the creation of the SEC. This seminar thoroughly covers all key aspects of the Act, including: Section 404 compliance...the formation, roles and responsibilities of the PCAOB...the impact of Auditing Standard No. 5 (AS5)...Audit Committee requirements...senior management penalties for Act violations...changes to company pension plans...rules of conduct for attorneys in SEC practice...changes in shareholder reporting...changes to SEC reviews of public company reports...increased protection for whistleblowers...and certification requirements under Sections 302 and 906.

SEC Accounting & Reporting
     This seminar is an ideal introduction to the SEC world and is an excellent refresher for the seasoned veteran.

SEC Developments: An Update
     Stay abreast of the latest happenings at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) with this continually updated one-day program.

SEC Reporting--Advanced
     Packed with reporting examples, this advanced seminar will give you an in-depth review of SEC requirements for periodic reports, Form 8-K current event reports and proxy statements.

Selected Topics in GAAP
     If you're looking for a primer on critical GAAP topics, this is the seminar for you. This continually updated course will refresh the accountant's knowledge of key pronouncements and cover an array of GAAP issues including: contingencies, uncertainties and guarantees...accounting for inventories...purchase and sales commitments...equity method accounting...accounting for leases and the FASB's current views on leasing transactions...comprehensive income...R&D and advertising...nonmonetary transactions...going concerns...FASB Codification...and international convergence.

Software Revenue Recognition
     Diverse business models, industry-specific sales practices and software-focused accounting literature make revenue recognition for software a real challenge.

SOX 404 Compliance: A How-To Guide
     A comprehensive guide to the SOX 404 process, this seminar will teach you the "ins and outs" of 404 compliance and give you practical knowledge you need to get up to speed. Key topics of discussion will include: scoping and managing your project...materiality...documentation (including SAS 70)...leveraging the benefits of AS5...applying the latest SEC guidance...determining a top-down approach...understanding entity-level controls...identifying key controls...control objectives and focal points...internal control testing...significant deficiencies and material weaknesses...financial statement assertions and assertions by management...roles of the internal and external auditors and the Audit Committee...and attestation by external auditors.

Stock-Based Compensation: Accounting Issues
     The accounting rules for stock-based compensation require companies to recognize the fair value of share-based consideration on their financial statements. In this seminar, you'll learn what you need to do to comply and how expensing stock options and other share-based consideration will affect your accounting.

The Credit Crisis--What Went Wrong
     The "credit crisis" precipitated the worst period of economic turmoil since the Great Depression. But how did it happen? Was it greedy Wall Street banks? Opaque investment products? Or was fair value accounting to blame? This seminar explores the answers to these questions and examines the accounting and reporting implications.

XBRL: The New Language of Financial Reporting
     The SEC now mandates the use of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) for financial reporting for most public companies. By 2011, all public companies must use XBRL data tagging.

SEC REPORTING

External Audit Procedures for SOX 404 Compliance
     This seminar will enable external auditors of public companies to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley, including Section 404. It addresses the requirements of the new PCAOB Audit Standard No. 5, An Audit of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting That Is Integrated with An Audit of Financial Statements. You'll focus on planning the scope of the engagement...performing walk-through tests...testing and evaluating design and operating effectiveness...identifying significant deficiencies and material weaknesses...remediation and re-testing...controls for prevention/detection of fraud...and forming an opinion and reporting.

Form 10-K: A Hands-On Workshop
     Form 10-K is the major year-end reporting document. Recent requirements make it crucial to fully understand the legal, accounting and disclosure rules.

Sarbanes-Oxley: A Complete Review & Update
     The Sarbanes-Oxley Act may be the most important legislation affecting public companies and their auditors since the creation of the SEC. This seminar thoroughly covers all key aspects of the Act, including: Section 404 compliance...the formation, roles and responsibilities of the PCAOB...the impact of Auditing Standard No. 5 (AS5)...Audit Committee requirements...senior management penalties for Act violations...changes to company pension plans...rules of conduct for attorneys in SEC practice...changes in shareholder reporting...changes to SEC reviews of public company reports...increased protection for whistleblowers...and certification requirements under Sections 302 and 906.

SEC Accounting & Reporting
     This seminar is an ideal introduction to the SEC world and is an excellent refresher for the seasoned veteran.

SEC Developments: An Update
     Stay abreast of the latest happenings at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) with this continually updated one-day program.

SEC Reporting--Advanced
     Packed with reporting examples, this advanced seminar will give you an in-depth review of SEC requirements for periodic reports, Form 8-K current event reports and proxy statements.

SOX 404 Compliance: A How-To Guide
     A comprehensive guide to the SOX 404 process, this seminar will teach you the "ins and outs" of 404 compliance and give you practical knowledge you need to get up to speed. Key topics of discussion will include: scoping and managing your project...materiality...documentation (including SAS 70)...leveraging the benefits of AS5...applying the latest SEC guidance...determining a top-down approach...understanding entity-level controls...identifying key controls...control objectives and focal points...internal control testing...significant deficiencies and material weaknesses...financial statement assertions and assertions by management...roles of the internal and external auditors and the Audit Committee...and attestation by external auditors.

XBRL: The New Language of Financial Reporting
     The SEC now mandates the use of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) for financial reporting for most public companies. By 2011, all public companies must use XBRL data tagging.

INTERNATIONAL

AUDITING

Accounting & Auditing Update: A Complete Review of Key New Pronouncements
     This comprehensive seminar explains how to implement recent pronouncements and anticipate future developments. You'll be brought up to date on the latest FASB pronouncements and gain the understanding to apply them effectively and efficiently. The seminar focuses on many areas including the most recent Codification updates...exposure drafts...international convergence...updates on auditing, independence and ethics...and more.

Compilations & Reviews: A Practical Approach
     Successful compilations and reviews are thorough enough to meet professional standards, efficient enough to complete in a timely manner and effective enough to avoid deficiencies. This seminar gives you the know-how to accomplish these goals. Gain an in-depth review of SSARS, including the SSARS 19 overhaul of compilations and reviews…limited assurance…disclosures regarding independence…“review evidence” and review procedures…materiality…documentation…use of OCBOA...GAAP and OCBOA departures…comparative statements…management-use-only statements…scope limitations…changing accountants…common peer review deficiencies…and more.

Due Diligence: Steps to Securing a Good Deal
     This seminar gives you the tools and practice aids to apply due diligence to an array of business dealings. Go from an informal review of financial statements and a survey of company operations to a detailed investigation of all target activities. Explore such topics as analytical procedures...going concerns...initial reviews ...reviewing financial statements...determining what to buy and the valuation method(s) to use...quickly arriving at an initial valuation...assessing risk including post-acquisition costs...recognizing symptoms of failure...conducting an operational audit...assessing adequacy of systems, practices and procedures...assessing target company management...assessing restructuring and refinancing options...case studies...and more.

External Audit Procedures for SOX 404 Compliance
     This seminar will enable external auditors of public companies to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley, including Section 404. It addresses the requirements of the new PCAOB Audit Standard No. 5, An Audit of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting That Is Integrated with An Audit of Financial Statements. You'll focus on planning the scope of the engagement...performing walk-through tests...testing and evaluating design and operating effectiveness...identifying significant deficiencies and material weaknesses...remediation and re-testing...controls for prevention/detection of fraud...and forming an opinion and reporting.

Spreadsheet Best Practices: Roadmap to Reduced Risk
     The Sarbanes-Oxley era has put spreadsheet integrity squarely in auditors' sights. And whether it's due to a lack of time or a lack of formal training, the fact remains that sloppy spreadsheet practices abound in the modern workplace.

NOT-FOR-PROFIT & GOVERNMENTAL ACCOUNTING & AUDITING

INTERNAL AUDITING

COST & MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING

PROFIT PLANNING & CONTROLLING

Best Practices in Finance & Accounting: Building a World-Class Organization
     For every best practice you may already be using, there are probably dozens more you could use to be more competitive. Many are very simple and easy to implement with immediate impact while others are more complex.

Corporate Financial Planning, Budgeting & Control
     This seminar provides a comprehensive understanding of the roles, interrelationships and the functions of strategic planning, budgeting and control. Using examples, you'll learn to plan, budget and position your organization within its competitive environment. Discuss such key topics as sources of competitive advantage...creating an effective planning environment...developing a strategic plan...the operating budget as integral to the planning process...structuring financial systems to support responsibility reporting and budgetary control...activity-based costing techniques...differences in business planning techniques for small- medium- and large-sized organizations...the budget as a control mechanism and controlling within an empowered organization.

Forecasting: Latest Methods & Practical Applications
     In the current economy, there is a need to do more with less. As a result, analysis has to be quick, efficient, and provide meaningful information. Accountants are creating more forecasts because of the fast-changing business environment, yet have less time to create forecasts.

Spreadsheet Best Practices: Roadmap to Reduced Risk
     The Sarbanes-Oxley era has put spreadsheet integrity squarely in auditors' sights. And whether it's due to a lack of time or a lack of formal training, the fact remains that sloppy spreadsheet practices abound in the modern workplace.

The Role of Financial Statement Analysis in Management Decision-Making
     This seminar provides a strategic approach to financial statement analysis for effective financial management. Understand why financial analysis for business decisions must start with strategy and business modeling. Review business decisions for: granting credit to customers, valuing a business, performance improvement strategies and development of a strategic financial plan. Also covered: methods for determining a company's financial strength...industry comparisons...cost of capital concepts...critical financial ratios...using free cash flow to determine a company's value...using financial analysis models...integrating financial forecasting into business plans...XBRL...financial statement trend and variance analysis...and using profitability, solvency, activity and liquidity ratios.

SPECIFIC INDUSTRIES

Construction Industry Accounting & Financial Reporting
     Accountants and practitioners in the construction industry face unique challenges, especially with financial reporting of multi-year projects. How do you accurately compute expenses incurred to date, project final expenses and assess how change orders impact profitability?

Financial Accounting & Reporting Real Estate Transactions
     Broaden your understanding of real estate accounting. Work through problems and case studies that illustrate practical application issues.

Financial Accounting Issues for Manufacturers, Distributors & Retailers
     Accountants who work for or with manufacturing, wholesale and retail companies deal with a wide variety of challenges, including inventory, revenue recognition and industry-specific issues. This seminar addresses those issues, including these cutting-edge areas: inventories (valuations and methods)...warrantees, guarantees and returns...receivables...revenue, earnings management and expense recognition issues...impairments...retirement obligations...fair value...and the new rules for consolidations.

Leasing: Accounting & Disclosure Issues
     FAS 13--the bible on leasing--has been modified or amended by subsequent FASBs, technical bulletins, EITFs, FINs, FSPs and, most recently, the Codification. This seminar focuses on what you need to know about leasing in light of the latest regulatory changes.

Oil & Gas Accounting
     Oil and gas companies are significantly affected by special accounting rules and are always at the mercy of the business cycle. Industry accountants must also wade through unique tax issues.

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