Intermediate
CPE Credits
6 Credits: Accounting
Course Description
Businesses are recovering from a level of disruption without parallel since WW2. Recovery has opened up opportunities for some while forcing others companies to confront unprecedented challenges to ongoing operations. The course provides participants with an overview of recent developments in the areas of corporate reporting, risk management, controls, and compliance. Coverage will be updated throughout the year to reflect emerging trends and issues. Other topics covered include issues faced by public and private companies and the CPAs who serve them.
Note: Content will be geared to the interests of the audience with topics chosen on the day by participants.
- Economic and business outlook for 2021 and 2022
- The growing power of digitization and the virtual economy
- Regulatory update: SEC, PCAOB, AICPA, etc.
- Creating corporate resilience: practical tools and business applications
- Data breaches and privacy: implications for CFOs
- Cybersecurity: regulatory and reporting developments
- Data analytics: what is it? Who is using and with what success?
- How will 5G revolutionize real and digital businesses?
- Global economic relations and supply chains in a post-pandemic world.
- Sustainability and ESG reporting, Where are we headed?
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- List opportunities and risks businesses will confront in the coming 12-18 months
- Identify the major threats to US prosperity and economic growth
- Learn practical tools to measure company resilience in the face of ongoing threats
- List PCAOB and SEC’s concerns with the current state of financial reporting
- Identify current accounting, compliance, and legal standards for reporting and disclosing data breaches.
- Explain how recently enacted privacy rules will affect companies’ compliance and disclosure obligations
- Explain how data analytics are reshaping company strategies and the role of finance in the digital transformation of business
- Understand how the race to 5G will affect our US global competitiveness
- Understand how evolving global economic relationships are affecting US companies
- List the major components of sustainability reporting and describe the major challenges to providing ESG information.
Course Specifics
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Course ID 21CBarHarbor-LE20226905 |
Prerequisites Experience in Financial Reporting |
Advanced Preparation None |
Compliance information
NASBA Provider Number: 103220
CFP Provider Number: 3199
CFP Course Number: 292835
CFP Provider Number: 3199
CFP Course Number: 292835
CMA Notice: Western CPE makes every attempt to maintain our CMA CPE library, to ensure a course meets your continuing education requirements please visit Insitute of Management Accountants (IMA)
Course Instructor
Dr. Ray Thompson, CBA, CFM, CMA, is an emeritus associate professor of accounting and finance at the University of Pittsburgh. He served as department head at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (UPJ) campus for over 25 years. He was the associate director of UPJ’s Entrepreneurial Development Assistance Project, where he was involved in financial consulting and assisting in preparing loan proposals for small business start-ups. He has taught in graduate and undergraduate business programs in Europe, Africa, and the United States. Ray received his BS and MS degrees in economics and systems dynamics from the University of Bradford in …
Current Challenges and Key Risks in Financial Reporting
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Intermediate
CPE Credits
6 Credits: Accounting
Course Description
Businesses are recovering from a level of disruption without parallel since WW2. Recovery has opened up opportunities for some while forcing others companies to confront unprecedented challenges to ongoing operations. The course provides participants with an overview of recent developments in the areas of corporate reporting, risk management, controls, and compliance. Coverage will be updated throughout the year to reflect emerging trends and issues. Other topics covered include issues faced by public and private companies and the CPAs who serve them.
Note: Content will be geared to the interests of the audience with topics chosen on the day by participants.
- Economic and business outlook for 2021 and 2022
- The growing power of digitization and the virtual economy
- Regulatory update: SEC, PCAOB, AICPA, etc.
- Creating corporate resilience: practical tools and business applications
- Data breaches and privacy: implications for CFOs
- Cybersecurity: regulatory and reporting developments
- Data analytics: what is it? Who is using and with what success?
- How will 5G revolutionize real and digital businesses?
- Global economic relations and supply chains in a post-pandemic world.
- Sustainability and ESG reporting, Where are we headed?
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- List opportunities and risks businesses will confront in the coming 12-18 months
- Identify the major threats to US prosperity and economic growth
- Learn practical tools to measure company resilience in the face of ongoing threats
- List PCAOB and SEC’s concerns with the current state of financial reporting
- Identify current accounting, compliance, and legal standards for reporting and disclosing data breaches.
- Explain how recently enacted privacy rules will affect companies’ compliance and disclosure obligations
- Explain how data analytics are reshaping company strategies and the role of finance in the digital transformation of business
- Understand how the race to 5G will affect our US global competitiveness
- Understand how evolving global economic relationships are affecting US companies
- List the major components of sustainability reporting and describe the major challenges to providing ESG information.
Course Specifics
|
Course ID 21CBarHarbor-LE20226905 |
Prerequisites Experience in Financial Reporting |
Advanced Preparation None |
Compliance information
NASBA Provider Number: 103220
CFP Provider Number: 3199
CFP Course Number: 292835
CFP Provider Number: 3199
CFP Course Number: 292835
CMA Notice: Western CPE makes every attempt to maintain our CMA CPE library, to ensure a course meets your continuing education requirements please visit Insitute of Management Accountants (IMA)
Course Instructor
Dr. Ray Thompson, CBA, CFM, CMA, is an emeritus associate professor of accounting and finance at the University of Pittsburgh. He served as department head at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (UPJ) campus for over 25 years. He was the associate director of UPJ’s Entrepreneurial Development Assistance Project, where he was involved in financial consulting and assisting in preparing loan proposals for small business start-ups. He has taught in graduate and undergraduate business programs in Europe, Africa, and the United States. Ray received his BS and MS degrees in economics and systems dynamics from the University of Bradford in …