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Annual Update and Practice Issues for Preparation, Compilation & Review Engagements

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200 S Pattee St
Missoula, MT 59802

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8.00 Credits

Member Price $300.00

Price will increase by $50 after 7/31

Non-Member Price $350.00

Price will increase by $50 after 7/31

Overview

A go-to reference for training staff and managing your preparation, compilation, and review engagements, this course will enable you to be in compliance with all of the professional standards surrounding engagements performed in accordance with Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services (SSARSs).  A practice-oriented review of the latest developments, cases, and lively discussion among the experienced participants make this class informative and practical.

Highlights

  • Overview of preparation, compilation, and review guidance
  • Accounting and reporting issues
  • Current practice issues
  • Common deficiencies in peer reviews
  • Current and future standard setting projects
  • International reporting issues in SSARS engagements
  • Special Purpose Framework financial statement issues
  • Case studies
  • Latest developments

Prerequisites

Experience with engagements performed in accordance with SSARSs

Designed For

CPA firm seniors (and above) managing engagements performed in accordance with SSARSs

Objectives

When you complete this course you will be able to:

  • Identify the professional standards and risk factors relevant to the planning and performance of preparation, compilation, and review engagements, including engagements on pro forma and prospective financial information.
  • Identify responses to preparation, compilation, and review engagement practice issues that comply with all applicable professional standards.

Preparation

None

Leader(s):

Leader Bios

Jack Georger Jr, AICPA

John “Jack” Georger, CPA, CIA Las Vegas, NV Jack Georger has served a broad base of clients, including port authorities, higher education institutions, community service organizations, foundations, counties, school districts, cities, and employee retirement systems. In addition, the commercial clients he has served include construction, real estate, aerospace, research and development, agricultural, and professional service firms. Jack has also consulted on numerous budgets and rate and cost studies for municipal authorities, as well as the design and implementation of internal control systems for various entities. During his career, Jack has had the opportunity to audit publicly traded companies, both accelerated filers under PCAOB Auditing Standards and non-accelerated filers; major U.S. cities and counties; colleges and universities; and some of the largest not-for-profit organizations in the United States. Jack is licensed to practice as a certified public accountant (CPA) in the states of California, New York, Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina (inactive), Nevada, Connecticut (inactive), Wyoming (inactive), and Georgia (inactive), and in the District of Columbia(inactice); he is also a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA). He is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors, California Society of Certified Public Accountants (CSCPA), New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA), Nevada Society of Certified Public Accountants, and Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA). Jack currently serves on the Financial Accounting Standards Committee, Not-For-Profit Committee, Sustainability Committee, and Government Accounting and Auditing Committee of the NYSSCPA. Jack has been a member of the GFOA Special Review Committee for the Certificate of Achievement for Financial Reporting since 1990. Jack graduated from George Mason University with a degree in Business Administration, and he first became a CPA in the state of Connecticut in 1981. He was in private practice in New York, where his firm provided auditing, accounting, and tax services to various local governments, not-for-profit organizations, small businesses, and individuals for over twenty years. Since selling his practice in 2001, Jack has been an Audit Senior Manager with KPMG, LLP and Pricewaterhouse Coopers, LLP; a partner in a regional firm in Los Angeles; Audit Director with McGladrey and Pullen, LLP; and, currently, a partner with the Pun Group, LLP

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Non-Member Price $350.00

Member Price $300.00