Comprehensive Guide to Understanding SSARSs with Renee Rampulla
-
Virtual
8.00 Credits
Member Price $309.00
Non-Member Price $459.00
Overview
This comprehensive course will assist you in the application of Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services (SSARSs). Participants who attend this update will learn about recently issued SSARSs and other related developments impacting a SSARSs practice.
This course qualifies for reimbursement through the state’s Workforce Training Express Fund. As of April 7, 2025, the state’s Workforce Training Express Fund suspended reimbursements for training costs to Massachusetts businesses. While we don’t have a confirmed timeline for the program to resume, it will likely be sometime this summer. We will continue to monitor this closely and encourage you to visit the state’s Workforce Training website for the most current updates and guidance.
This course qualifies for reimbursement through the state’s Workforce Training Express Fund. Firms/companies with fewer than 50 staff can be reimbursed up to 100% of the cost of training and firms/companies with 50-100 employees can be reimbursed up to 50% of the cost of training. You must register for the course and apply for reimbursement through the Workforce Training Express Fund website a minimum of three weeks prior to the start of the course. The course code for this program is C-13245. To learn more, click here or contact Julia Ekelund at jekelund@masscpas.org.
Highlights
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to: • Recall the SSARSs hierarchy. • Recognize recently issued and effective SSARSs, including SSARSs Nos. 26. • Identify the impact the AICPA’s Quality Management Standards will have on a SSARSs practice. • Identify additional reporting requirements needed when issuing a SSARSs report using a special purpose framework. • Recall frequently identified peer review matters described in the most recent AICPA’s Peer Review Oversight Report. • Recognize common SSARSs accounting and reporting issues.
Prerequisites
Experience performing engagements in accordance with SSARSs.
Designed For
This update may assist external and internal accountants, accountants in industry, educators, and those learners who want or need to remain up to date on recently issued and proposed authoritative guidance.
Objectives
Learn about the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ (AICPA’s) recently issued SSARSs. Understand the impact the quality management standards will have on a SSARSs practice. Know the additional reporting requirements when issuing a SSARSs report using a special purpose framework, such as tax basis. Identify common accounting and reporting issues.
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Renee Rampulla, American Institute of CPAs
Renee Rampulla has over twenty years of professional experience. She writes, lectures, and consults on technical accounting and auditing issues. Renee has extensive experience in the auditing of public and privately held entities ranging from the manufacturing and service sectors, to financial services. Previously she was a partner in a regional accounting firm in the northeast in charge of the firm’s accounting and auditing practice and their quality control group. Renee is the president and founder of Rampulla Advisory Services, LLC. Her clients include nationally recognized professional organizations, accounting firms, companies, publishers and others. By devoting several years of her career at both regional and Big Four accounting firms Renee accumulated a wealth of technical and practical knowledge. In addition, she was a senior staff member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). At the AICPA Renee worked closely with senior technical committees, presented technical guidance before standard setters, and authored and updated several authoritative and non-authoritative publications. For several years Renee was an adjunct lecturer at a university in New York City where she taught numerous undergraduate accounting and auditing courses. Renee enjoys teaching and is an instructor and author of several continuing professional education courses for the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants’ (NYSSCPA) Foundation for Accounting Education (FAE) and other organizations, covering a variety of accounting and auditing topics. Renee holds a BBA in Public Accounting from Bernard M. Baruch College. She is a member of the AICPA, the NYSSCPA, the New Jersey State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NJSCPA), the Institute of Management Accountants, the American Woman’s Society of Certified Public Accountants, and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. Renee serves as a committee member of the NYSSCPA’s Professional Ethics committee. She is currently the vice-leader of the NJSCPA’s Accounting and Auditing Standards Interest Group, becoming leader in June 2012. Previously she served as co-chair of the NJSCPA Accounting Standards and IFRS sub-committee interest groups.
Non-Member Price $459.00
Member Price $309.00