A & A Update for Small and Mid Sized Businesses
Overview
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This course is designed for the accounting and auditing professional who provides attestation services to small to mid-sized businesses. The course reviews recent standard-setting activities of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the AICPA, specifically focusing on those standards having the most significant impact on small to mid-sized non-public business entities. The course also discusses adopting the latest audit standards, including the new audit risk assessment requirements.Highlights
Topics of discussion will include: Recently issued FASB Accounting Standards Updates, including those that will become effective during audit engagements conducted in 2026 • Recently issued Statements on Auditing Standards and other AICPA activity • Recently issued Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services
Prerequisites
None
Designed For
Accounting and auditing professional who provides attestation services to small to mid-sized non-public businesses.
Objectives
When you complete this course, you will be able to: • Review and apply recently issued financial accounting and auditing standards • Understand the broad financial accounting topics that impact small to mid-sized businesses
Preparation
None
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Robert Bedwell, Controller, Progressive Care, Inc
Bob is an accounting and finance professional with over 38 years of audit and accounting experience. Bob's experience includes a full range of corporate accounting and assurance services, including financial statement preparation, auditing, SEC reporting, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, due diligence, financing regulatory compliance, accounting system oversight, internal controls, IFRS conversions, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance advisory, and the independent review of external data.
Bob has been a discussion leader on numerous topics for Surgent Professional Education, the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, as well as for the firms for which he has worked, and has received high evaluations for his knowledge of topics and presentation skills.
Bob received his Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance from Upsala College in East Orange, New Jersey, and has also earned a Masters in Accounting from Florida Atlantic University. Licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in Florida, Bob is a member of the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants (FICPA) and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He has previously served as chairman of the FICPA Accounting Principles and Auditing Standards Committee.
Subject areas for which Bob has served as a discussion leader include:
• Professional Ethics
• Accounting and Auditing Update
• Compilation and Review Update
• Governmental and Non-for-Profit Annual Update
• New Lease Accounting Standards (author and presenter)
• New Revenue Recognition Standard (author and presenter)
• Non-profit Accounting and Financial Reporting
• Applying the Uniform Guidance in Your Single Audits
• Audits of Employee Benefit Plans
• Auditing Workpapers: Documenting and Reviewing Field Work
• Recognizing and Responding to Fraud Risk in Governmental and Not-for-Profit Organizations
• The AICPA Financial Reporting Framework for Small and Medium Sized Entities (author and presenter)
Non-Member Price $210.00
Member Price $190.00