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Accounting and Auditing Update for Small Businesses

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(Check-In 8:30am EST)

Virtual

8.00 Credits

Member Price $309.00

Non-Member Price $459.00

Overview

You could pay $0 for this course!
This course qualifies for reimbursement through the State Workforce Training Express Fund. Firms/companies with fewer than 100 staff will receive 100% of the cost of training reimbursed. You must register for this course and apply for reimbursement through the Workforce Training Express Fund website a minimum of three weeks before the start date of the course to be eligible. The course code for this program is C-3037.  To learn more click here or contact Julia Ekelund at jekelund@mscpaonline.org.


Designed specifically for practitioners providing accounting and auditing services to small businesses, this course offers critical updates on recent developments in accounting, auditing, compilation, preparation, and review standards, as well as other professional guidance affecting small businesses and their auditors. The materials provided include practical applications of the topics covered, enhancing your ability to understand and apply the standards to real-life scenarios. Given the rapid pace of regulatory changes in today’s landscape, it is imperative to stay abreast of the current issues shaping the profession.

Highlights

• Accounting standards updates, including an update on leases, financial instruments, and revenue recognition • Latest activity from FASB, ASB, and ARSC • An update on audit and attest standards • Private company financial reporting • Types of small business audits

Designed For

CPAs who require a review of recent accounting and auditing pronouncements

Objectives

When you complete this course, you will be able to: • Identify recently issued FASB, ASB, and ARSC guidance and standards that affect small businesses. • Identify key concepts related to exposure drafts and other projects in accounting and auditing. • Recognize the nuances of small business audits: who needs them and why.

Leader(s):

Leader Bios

Gene Ristaino, American Institute of CPAs CPA.com

Gene Ristaino currently provides valuation services for private companies, along with accounting and auditing consultation and technical reviews for small and medium-sized CPA firms. His expertise includes consulting services for real estate developers and construction contractors in project costing and analysis, cost certification, claim support and documentation, expert witness, business valuation and job cost system implementation and improvement. Gene is a national instructor for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and many state societies. He also lectures for many industry associations, and has authored numerous professional education programs, including several seminars and webcasts. Gene provides tailored CPA programs to accounting firms as requested. Gene is a retired partner of Isdaner & Company, LLC (2016), a local firm of 65 people in the Philadelphia area, and was the director of accounting, auditing and quality control for the firm. Gene managed a diversified accounting practice (over 40 years of experience), which included accounting and auditing and technical engagement review. Gene concentrated in: real estate and construction; healthcare (nursing homes); the governmental and not-for-profit auditing sectors (yellow book), HUD regulations and the Single Audit Act; as well as substantial experience with manufacturing, transportation, retail and service organizations.

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Non-Member Price $459.00

Member Price $309.00