
Basic

CPE Credits
6 Credits: Accounting
Course Description
In the past 13 years since the Great Recession, numerous trends are evolving within the financial world that require an in-depth review and analysis to determine the risks associated with these emerging trends. Additionally, social and political turmoil have created more uncertainty which has continued to impact business decision-making. The advent of the CGMA certification (Chartered Global Management Accountant) and the Ethics Codification Project for 2015 have increased the analytical skills needed by the industry financial professional. This course will explore key economic and regulatory issues that will have a substantial impact on financial and accounting projections for the next several years.
Highlights include:
The course will examine and walk-through key economic, accounting, and finance issues across the United States and internationally and its effect on both domestic and international corporations. A special focus will be provided on the effect on the knowledge base required by the “new” industry accountant.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
• Determine strategic intent, systemic risk and opportunity costs in the business model
• Identify cost drivers in the business model
• Evaluate ESG trends and impact on long term sustainability
• Evaluate DE&I trends and their impact on personnel development
• Recognize the link between activity based costing and lean operations
• Analyze the impact of the Ukrainian-Russian Ware and the international economic turmoil and uncertainly
• Evaluate the impact of the dollar as the world currency.
• Analyze significant macro risks to an entity during the pandemic recovery phase
• Analyze the impact of emerging accounting issues to include state and local unfunded obligations and potential tax implications to the business, deferred maintenance, logistic bottlenecks, and risks
• Analyze the impact of inflation on an organization and the global economy
• Determine the impact of financial capacity on financial projections and the ability to find new funding sources in the light of new bank loan loss reporting standards.
• Evaluate programs for retirement planning for your staff during periods of economic turmoil so that non-planning does not become your personnel issue.
• Analyze the future of medical costs in the United States and impact on employees
• Analyze the impact of a deficient national infrastructure on overall economic growth potential, particularly for accounting/financial projections.
Course Specifics
Course ID 22CLasVegasOct-LE22C278822 |
Prerequisites None |
Advanced Preparation None |
Compliance information
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

Francis X. Ryan, CPA, CGMA, MBA, is the president of F.X. Ryan & Associates, which specializes in lean systems implementations, activity-based costing, strategic and operational risk analyses, and corporate governance evaluations. Frank serves and has served on numerous boards of publicly traded companies and nonprofit organizations. In 2008, he was elected chairman of the board of Good Shepherd Center. Frank has served as chairman of the audit committees of two publicly traded companies, and he’s the current audit committee chairman of a major nonprofit organization in Maryland. Francis X. Ryan is an acclaimed author on activity-based costing, lean systems, and …
The New Economy and the New Industry Accountant
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Basic

CPE Credits
6 Credits: Accounting
Course Description
In the past 13 years since the Great Recession, numerous trends are evolving within the financial world that require an in-depth review and analysis to determine the risks associated with these emerging trends. Additionally, social and political turmoil have created more uncertainty which has continued to impact business decision-making. The advent of the CGMA certification (Chartered Global Management Accountant) and the Ethics Codification Project for 2015 have increased the analytical skills needed by the industry financial professional. This course will explore key economic and regulatory issues that will have a substantial impact on financial and accounting projections for the next several years.
Highlights include:
The course will examine and walk-through key economic, accounting, and finance issues across the United States and internationally and its effect on both domestic and international corporations. A special focus will be provided on the effect on the knowledge base required by the “new” industry accountant.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
• Determine strategic intent, systemic risk and opportunity costs in the business model
• Identify cost drivers in the business model
• Evaluate ESG trends and impact on long term sustainability
• Evaluate DE&I trends and their impact on personnel development
• Recognize the link between activity based costing and lean operations
• Analyze the impact of the Ukrainian-Russian Ware and the international economic turmoil and uncertainly
• Evaluate the impact of the dollar as the world currency.
• Analyze significant macro risks to an entity during the pandemic recovery phase
• Analyze the impact of emerging accounting issues to include state and local unfunded obligations and potential tax implications to the business, deferred maintenance, logistic bottlenecks, and risks
• Analyze the impact of inflation on an organization and the global economy
• Determine the impact of financial capacity on financial projections and the ability to find new funding sources in the light of new bank loan loss reporting standards.
• Evaluate programs for retirement planning for your staff during periods of economic turmoil so that non-planning does not become your personnel issue.
• Analyze the future of medical costs in the United States and impact on employees
• Analyze the impact of a deficient national infrastructure on overall economic growth potential, particularly for accounting/financial projections.
Course Specifics
Course ID 22CLasVegasOct-LE22C278822 |
Prerequisites None |
Advanced Preparation None |
Compliance information
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

Francis X. Ryan, CPA, CGMA, MBA, is the president of F.X. Ryan & Associates, which specializes in lean systems implementations, activity-based costing, strategic and operational risk analyses, and corporate governance evaluations. Frank serves and has served on numerous boards of publicly traded companies and nonprofit organizations. In 2008, he was elected chairman of the board of Good Shepherd Center. Frank has served as chairman of the audit committees of two publicly traded companies, and he’s the current audit committee chairman of a major nonprofit organization in Maryland. Francis X. Ryan is an acclaimed author on activity-based costing, lean systems, and …