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 and 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 closely held non-public business entities. The course also discusses adopting the latest audit standards.

Highlights

Topics of discussion will include:

Recently issued FASB Accounting Standards Updates

Recently issued AICPA Statements on Auditing Standards

Recently issued AICPA Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services

Prerequisites

Experience in accounting and attestation engagements

Designed For

Accounting and auditing professionals who provide services to small and mid-sized businesses

Objectives

When you complete this course, you will be able to:

Apply recently issued financial accounting and auditing standards

Understand the broad financial accounting topics that impact small and mid-sized businesses

Preparation

None

Fees

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Leader(s):

Robert Bedwell, Controller, Progressive Care, Inc

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)

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