Loscalzo's Disclosure- The Key to Financial Statements [DKFS Anc]

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Loscalzos Disclosure The Key To Financial Statements
Good Industry Course Updated for New Accounting Pronouncements

August 4, 2010
Anchorage, Alaska

$295 AKCPA Member Fee
$370 Non Member Fee

Why Attend This Course?
Keep your professional reputation stellar by making sure your financial statements are up-to-speed. This course will:
Explain and illustrate disclosure requirements
Clear up misconceptions on practice problems such as fair value
Correct disclosure deficiencies most frequently cited by peer reviewers

The manual includes numerous live bread and butter examples, a complete disclosure checklist and pro forma financial statements.

Objective
Participants will be able to prepare disclosures necessary for privately-held companies

Major Subjects
This program does not discuss SEC requirements. Special emphasis is given to common disclosure deficiencies noted in practice and in peer reviews
Recent changes in subsequent events, going concern, and fair value...
Contingencies, risks and uncertainties, accounting policies...
Liabilities how debt violations impact classification...
Deferred taxes and uncertain tax positions...
Accounting changes, error corrections, and other categories in the income statement
Cash flows statement

Who Will Benefit
Practitioners in public practice and CPAs in industry who are responsible for the preparation of non-public financial statements. Since one of our course authors has served on the NJSCPA Peer Review Executive Committee for 18 years and has performed quality control consultations for almost 30 years, this program is a must for those practitioners who will undergo peer review.

Field of Study: Accounting
Level: Basic
Prerequisites: Participants should be familiar with the accounting issues included in the FASB Codification

Advance Preparation: None

CPE Credit Hours: 8
Qualifies for the 24 hour Yellow Book requirement if an auditor has FASB Yellow Book clients. Determination as to the qualification of certain courses for the Yellow Book 24 hour requirement should be made on an auditor specific basis depending on that auditors Yellow Book clients. Note that the determination of course qualification is a matter of an auditors professional judgment in consultation with appropriate individuals in the audit firm. The 24 hours are a subset of the 80 hour requirement.

Acronym: DKFS
Discussion Leader: Gregory M. Clark, CPA
Gregory M. Clark CPA is an author and discussion leader for LOSCALZO ASSOCIATES, P.A. and a Principal with the Business Compliance & Controls Group (BCCG) an accounting consulting firm specializing in employee benefit plan audits and compliance, internal controls auditing, consulting and assessments, and technical accounting training and consulting.

With extensive experience in the audit and business compliance field, Greg has participated in all aspects of employee benefit plan engagements; including plan audit and business risk assessments, plan internal control assessment and design, plan regulatory compliance, data retention management, and administrative contract compliance. BCCG provides technical accounting and auditing consulting services, quality control and effectiveness reviews and compliance assistance to CPA firms performing employee benefit plan engagements.

Greg is an internationally known speaker on the topics of employee benefit plans, technical accounting and auditing, operational auditing and internal controls evaluations, data retention management, organizational risk assessments and various other topics. Greg has worked with accountants and auditors from international companies throughout the world, many Fortune 500 companies, numerous local, regional, and national CPA firms, and for more than 40 State CPA societies.

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