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Accounting
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Course Description

This course provides an overview of the new revenue recognition standards prescribed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued in May 2014. The new standards are effective for public business entities for annual reporting periods after December 1, 2017, including interim periods within that reporting period. For calendar year public filers, these entities will need to implement the new standards starting in 2018.


Instructor

Kelen Camehl, CPA, MBA
Kelen Camehl, CPA, MBA

Kelen is a CPA with 15 years of progressive finance and accounting experience. Currently, he serves as a Senior Manager of Technical Accounting with HP, Inc. Prior to this role, he served in multiple accounting roles in the oil and gas industry with ConocoPhillips including technical accounting policy, SOX compliance, and global internal audit. He also gained public accounting experience with PricewaterhouseCoopers, working with various clients in the energy, electric, power, gas, and utility sectors in Houston, TX.

Kelen has remained actively involved in CPA exam content development for the past eight years and has authored over a thousand multiple-choice questions for various sections of the exam, attending workshops with the AICPA across the country each year. He also serves as an editorial advisor for the AICPA’s Journal of Accountancy as well as both an author and technical reviewer for continuing professional education (CPE) courses published by the AICPA. He also authors CPE courses and serves as a technical reviewer and revision editor for Wolters Kluwer (CCH Group) and WebCE as well as contributing to CPE course development for SmartPros. He also authors CPE courses for PDH Academy.

Kelen received his BBA in Accounting from Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi, TX and an MBA from the University of Texas—San Antonio. He is a CPA licensed in the state of Texas.


Course Specifics

Accounting
Mar 27, 2020
There are no prerequisites.
SS1163444
78
None


Compliance Information

103220
Qualifies for CA Fraud: No

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

Chapter 1

  • Recognize how the new revenue recognition standards were developed between the FASB and IASB

Chapter 2

  • Identify the five steps involved in the new revenue recognition model
  • Recognize the steps involved in allocating the transaction price to performance obligations
  • Identify the considerations involved with measuring the transaction price
  • Recognize the considerations involved in identifying whether a contract exists

Chapter 3

  • Identify presentation issues with respect to contract assets and contract liabilities
  • Understand the overall disclosure requirements and transition methods related to the new standards

Chapter 4

  • Recognize key amendments from ASUs issued subsequent to the initial release of the new revenue recognition standards

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