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Accounting and Auditing Update


Total Credits: 4 including 2 Accounting - Technical, 2 Auditing- Technical

Average Rating:
   15
Categories:
Accounting and Auditing |  Partner Produced
Faculty:
Michael Kridel, CFF, CITP, CFC
Course Levels:
Update
Duration:
4 Hours
License:
Product Setting: Expires 40 day(s) after program date.

Dates


Description

Learn about the new 2017 and 2016 Accounting Standards Codification and Updates. Areas covered will be Revenue Recognition, Leases, and Financial Instruments, and other important GAAP changes. Accounting (ASUs), auditing (SASs), preparation, compilation and review standards (SSARS 21, 22, and 23) from 2017 and 2016. Practical solutions to complex issues will be offered. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss issues they need information for.

Basic Course Information

Learning Objectives

Provide an update and review of new and selected revised professional A&A standards for 2017 and 2016


Major Subjects

*FASB Update (includes Accounting Standards Codification  and selected  new pronouncements) 

*Brief discussion on the FASB and the IASB and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) status. 

*Audit Update and new SASs including  areas of documentation for audits. 

*SSARS Update (includes  SSARS 21, 22, & 23 for Preparation and Compilation), new engagement letters, new reports, new documentation standards, and review representation  letters specified in SSARS. 

*Updates on Peer Review and related regulatory problems  

*Ethics Interpretation 1.295 and revisions in attest/nonattest applications 

*Documentation standards are reviewed. 

*Any other matters deemed appropriate and timely 

*Any questions that participants deem important 

*Disciplinary actions 

*Independence  

*Integrity and objectivity 

*Licensure requirements – individuals and firms  

*Peer Review  

*Practice mobility


Course Materials

Faculty

Michael Kridel, CFF, CITP, CFC Related Seminars and Products

Michael S. Kridel, C.P.A., P.A.


Michael S. Kridel, CPA/CFF/CITP, CFC

Michael S. Kridel, C.P.A., P.A.

 

Michael Kridel practices in the Boca Raton area. Mr. Kridel has practiced public accounting in South Florida since graduation from George Washington University in 1974. Prior to joining Rehmann in 2013, he was a partner with Daszkal Bolton LLP for nearly 17 years after practicing 18 years as a sole practitioner.

 

Mr. Kridel is a member of the American and Florida Institutes of Certified Public Accountants and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Accounting and Certified Forensic Consultant of the American College of Forensic Examiners Institute. He is also a member of the International Association for Asset Recovery, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and is an associate member of the American Bar Association and Family Law Section of the Florida Bar Association. He chaired the Valuation, Forensic Accounting and Litigation Services Section of the FICPA and served as Chairperson of the Committee for Valuation and Litigation Services. In 2001, Mr. Kridel was one of the first CPAs to achieve the Certified Information Technology Professional (CITP) designation offered by the AICPA. He was one of the first CPAs to be Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF) by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He also served on the Top Technologies Task Force of the AICPA. Mr. Kridel has received the FICPA Outstanding Discussion Leader each year since 2004. He was included as a leading forensic accountant in the South Florida Legal Guide each year since 2009 as a Top CPA and Financial Support Professional (Litigation Support). He also received the South Florida Business Leader Magazine’s 2010 IMPACT Leaders Award.

 

Since 1974, Mr. Kridel has provided litigation services for both plaintiffs and defendants in a broad range of matters including family law, stockholder actions, financial damages, fraud detection, criminal and civil tax matters, breach of fiduciary duty, wrongful discharge and accountant malpractice. He also has extensive practice experience in accounting and taxation for corporations, partnerships, retirement plans, fiduciaries and individuals. Additionally, he has provided management consulting and training services to large and small companies and professional practices. Mr. Kridel has testified in deposition, hearings, trial and alternative dispute resolution proceedings as an expert in numerous jurisdictions.

 

Mr. Kridel is a frequent speaker, garnering numerous awards, at national and local conferences for accountants and attorneys on topics such as litigation services, professional ethics, eDiscovery, practice management, information technology and human resources. He is a certified ethics instructors in Florida. He is an online instructor for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and was a Facilitator in the Professional Training Department at the Florida campus of Johnson & Wales University for several years. He is a longtime member of the Editorial Review Panels of the Journal of Accountancy and Florida CPA Today. He is active in several community service organizations and is a Partner in Education at numerous Broward County high schools. For more than twenty years, Mr. Kridel has facilitated an award-winning seminar, Ethical Decision Making in the Workplace and Society, for Broward County high schools, positively influencing nearly 1,500 students annually. He is also the profession’s representative on the Education Advisory Committee of the Florida Board of Accountancy. Mr. Kridel is the current Chair of the Palm Beach County Commission on Ethics and has served on the Commission since 2013.


Additional Info

Basic Course Information

Prerequisites None
Advanced Preparation None
Designed For

Professionals in public practice, industry, government, and education who deal with nonpublic entities and desire an update on the more important accounting, auditing, review, and compilation standards. 


Original Recording Date 05/26/2017
Yellow Book No
Course Developer FICPA
Date Added to Catalog 05/01/2017

Additional Information

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Official Registry Statement

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Instructional Delivery Method Group Internet Based
Course Registration Requirements

Online Registration 


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