ACPEN Signature 2025: Accounting & Auditing Update - In Person
8.0 Credits
Member Price $170.00
Non-Member Price $225.00
Overview
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The pinnacle of online CPE at the greatest value!Get the best CPE experience at the greatest value of the year during a live, one-day virtual Accounting & Auditing Update - an ACPEN signature event!
Secure one of 55+ seats at an FICPA-hosted watch party (with lunch and beverages included) at our brand-new conference center in downtown Orlando.
Benefit from a comprehensive, in-depth review of FASB, AICPA, and other professional statements and interpretations. Topics covered include auditing and quality management standards, ethics, accounting and review standards and more with special emphasis on their practical application and impact on industry and small- to medium-sized firms.
This live, interactive, signature course is facilitated by impressive practitioners and you will receive extensive written materials for use during the course and as a future resource.
Individual Watch Party Pricing
$170 Members | $225 Nonmembers
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Group Watch Party Discount
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Highlights
FASB Statements and Interpretations
Statements on Auditing Standards and Statements on Quality Management Standards
Ethics Interpretations (1 hour CPE)
Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services
Prerequisites
Designed For
Industry and Public Accountants
Objectives
Review the latest developments at the FASB, AICPA, and other professional bodies impacting accounting and auditing
Preparation
None
Notice
FICPA EZMaterials! Paper manuals will not be provided at this session, you’ll need to download the EZMaterials from your FICPA account as searchable PDFs to your laptop, tablet or other device before the event.
For more information feel free to call the FICPA Member Service Center at 800-342-3197.
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
J Inzina, ALTEC, INC
J. Michael Inzina, CPA, CGFM, CGMA
Altec, Inc.
Monroe, LA
J. Michael Inzina, CPA, CGFM, CGMA is president and CEO of Audit Litigation Training and Efficiency Consulting, Inc. (ALTEC), a consulting company serving the accounting and auditing community in audit efficiency, training, ethics and litigation support. In 2020 he retired from public practice after forty-four years, concentrated in governments, financial institutions, public utilities and nonprofit organizations. Mike holds a BBA in accounting from the University of Louisiana (Monroe), where he graduated summa cum laude in May 1976. He is a member of the American Institute of CPAs, the Society of Louisiana CPAs, the Association of Government Accountants and the GFOA, and earned the CEA in governmental in 1990. He was awarded the Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM) designation in 1996, and the Certified Global Management Accountant (CGMA) designation in 2012. Mike is a past chapter president and member of the Society of Louisiana CPAs Board of Directors and served two terms as chairman of the Governmental Positive Enforcement Program of the Louisiana State Board of CPAs. He has served on numerous committees of the Society of Louisiana CPAs, and presently is a member and past chairman of its Ethics committee.
Mike has twice served as a member of the AICPA Professional Ethics Executive Committee (1986-1989, and 2000-2003), and served as a member of the AICPA Auditing Standards Board from 1997 to 2000. From 1986 to 1993, he served as a member of AICPA Independence and Behavioral Standards Subcommittee, and was Subgroup Chairman of the Governmental Technical Standards Committee. During this time he conducted numerous investigations of complaints filed by federal, state and local agencies alleging substandard performance of audits of governmental and nonprofit entities, and represented the Professional Ethics Division at hearings of the Joint Regional Trial Board.
He contributed to the GASB Statement 34 Implementation Guide, AICPA Statement of Position 98-3, the industry audit and accounting guide Audits of State and Local Governmental Units, the AICPA Practice Aid to SAS 99 (fraud) and assisted in revisions to the Louisiana Governmental Audit Guide and in drafting state legislation affecting governmental accounting and auditing requirements. He has served as technical consultant and instructor for the Louisiana Division of Administration (Office of Community Development), and as consultant to the Louisiana Department of Education. Mike frequently appears as moderator and panelist on the Accountants CPE Network.
He has been named thirteen times as an Outstanding Discussion Leader by the American Institute of CPAs and the Louisiana, South Carolina and West Virginia state societies. He received a Special Recognition Award from the Society of Louisiana CPAs Board of Directors for his contributions to continuing education in 1994, and was awarded the 2001 National Education and Training Award from the Association of Government Accountants. In 2009, Mike was named national Beta Alpha Psi Business Information Professional of the Year. In 2016, he received the Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Louisiana CPAs.
Jenifer Wyss
Jenifer Wyss, CPA, is a Supervising Project Manager at the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). She serves as the coordinator for both the Private Company Council (PCC) and the FASB’s Not-for-Profit Advisory Committee (NAC). Since joining the FASB, Jenifer has worked on standard-setting projects in a variety of areas, for example, accounting for income taxes, statement of cash flows, stock compensation, and employee benefit plans. Before joining the FASB, Ms. Wyss spent 18 years in public accounting. Most of those years were spent at RSM where she was a Partner in their St. Louis office. Jenifer earned her B.S. in Accounting from Eastern Illinois University and is a certified public accountant in Missouri and Illinois.
Laura Billingsley
Laura A. Billingsley, CPA, MS Acc, MEd, is an executive editor of PPC products for the Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters in Carrollton, Texas, where she is responsible for the technical content and annual update of several PPC products. She is a coauthor of PPC’s Guide to SSARS Preparation Engagements, PPC’s Guide to PCAOB Audits, PPC’s Guide to Religious Organizations, PPC’s Practice Aids for Audits of Oil and Gas Entities, and PPC’s Guide to Fraud Risk Assessments; and a contributing author to PPC’s Guide to Compilation and Review Engagements, PPC’s Guide to Managing an Accounting Practice, PPC’s Guide to Write-up Services, PPC’s Guide to GAAS, PPC’s Guide to Audits of Financial Institutions, PPC’s Guide to Dealerships, and The PPC Accounting and Auditing Update newsletter. She has been an observer at the AICPA Accounting and Review Services Committee meetings for more than 20 years. Before joining Thomson Reuters, she was a senior audit manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where she managed attest, business assurance, and consulting engagements for both small business and public company clients. Ms. Billingsley is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Non-Member Price $225.00
Member Price $170.00