2-Day Conference: Financial Accounting & Reporting Update Boston June 2019 (Boston, United States - June 10-11, 2019) - ResearchAndMarkets.com

The "Financial Accounting & Reporting Update Boston June 2019" conference has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The course providers are seeing an unprecedented level of major accounting changes from US and international standard-setters. This conference will address the latest developments in key areas. Experts from the Big Four and regional firms will lead the discussion.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the latest accounting changes in key areas
• Recognize the timelines and key factors
• Begin to assess the effects of these standards on your company or clients

Agenda

DAY 1

8:00 - 8:45

• Continental Breakfast and Registration

8:45 - 10:15

• Accounting for Leases: New Rules
  • Identification of a Lease
  • Key Concepts
  • Lease Classification
  • Lessee and Lessor Accounting
  • Examples

10:15 - 10:25

• Break

10:25 - 11:25

• FASB Update
  • Recent and Proposed ASUs
  • Current Projects
  • Disclosure Effectiveness
  • What to expect in next 12 months

11:25 - 11:30

• Break

11:30 - 12:30

• Fraud Update
  • Context and perspective
  • SEC/DOJ Guidance
  • Global perspective
  • Indicators of opportunity

12:30 - 1:30

• Lunch

1:30 - 3:30

• Revenue Recognition
  • Key provisions of new standard
  • Considerations and illustrative examples for collectibility, contingent revenue, sales to distributors, performance obligations over time, elimination of VSOE for software transactions, use of residual approach, term licenses, time value of money, disclosure implications

3:30 - 3:45

• Break

3:45 - 5:15

• SEC Developments: Part 1
  • SEC Personnel Update
  • The Financial CHOICE Act
  • JOBS Act Implementation Update
  • FAST Act (aka JOBS Act 1.5)
  • What to Expect

DAY 2

8:15 - 8:45

• Continental Breakfast

8:45 - 10:10

• SEC Update Part 2:
  • Opportunities for Time and Cost Savings
  • Form 10Q Efficiencies
  • Interim Financial Statements
  • MD&A
  • Quantitative & Qualitative Disclosures

10:10 - 10:20

• Break

10:20 - 11:25

• Tax Update
  • Federal Tax Legislative Outlook for 2017 New Rules
  • Preparing for the financial statement impact of tax reform
  • State Tax: significant legislative, regulatory and case law updates

11:25 - 11:30

• Break

11:30 - 12:30

• Hedge Accounting
  • Interest rates
  • Commodity
  • FX
  • The risks, the instruments and the accounting-disclosures

12:30 - 1:30

• Lunch

1:30 - 2:30

• M&A Update
  • Business Combinations
  • Recent Trends

2:30 - 2:45

• Break

2:45 - 4:15

• IT Risk and Cybersecurity Overview
  • Disclosure requirements
  • Risks in the Digital Age
  • Key Questions
  • Solutions and Activities
  • Examples of threat scenario

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