Total Credits: 7 including 4 Accounting - Technical, 1 Personal Development , 2 Specialized Knowledge - Technical
Too Good to Miss
The FICPA Accounting and Business show hits the mark with topics ranging from international tax and finance to unique needs of CPAs working in industry, as well as other specialized sessions on taxation, financial planning and multiple A&A sessions, you don’t want to skip this conference. Mark your calendars and save the date for the conference that’s too good to miss.
We offer the option to attend virtually from your home or office through our Simulcast. Earn up to 18 CPE hours from nationally recognized speakers without the need to travel. Need to meet your ethics requirement? You can do that too on the Friday Simulcast. Enjoy the flexibility the Simulcast has to offer and choose to attend your choice of one, two or all three days.
Day 1 features 7 hours of CPE credit – 6 AA, 1 TB – including a keynote presentation from AICPA Chairman of the Board Kimberly Ellison-Taylor. Breakout sessions include Revenue Recognition, Basic Fiduciary Accounting, Entities and more.
Day 2 features 7 hours of CPE credit – 6 AA, 1 TB – including a presentation from nationally recognized, refreshingly unique keynote speaker, Mike Hourigan. Breakout sessions include Accounting and Auditing Updates, FASB Nonprofit GAAP Updates; Accounting for Leases, Audit engagements and more
The first two days each offer the opportunity to earn up to 7 CPE credit hours and include both our keynote presentations. Because we want to deliver the Show’s most popular CPE topics to our Simulcast attendees, complete agendas will be released later in August.
Day 3 features one of our highly respected Ethics courses – Ethics: Protecting the Integrity of Florida CPAs - 4980 (4 ETH). This is a great way to earn your required biennial Ethics credits. Registration is now open!
Day 1 Schedule:
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
8:00-8:10 am - Introduction & Opening Remarks; Conference Planning Chair
8:10-9:00 am - Keynote Address: Kimberly Ellison-Taylor-AICPA Chairman of the Board
9:00-9:10am - Change Rooms
9:10-10:00 am - Most Popular AA session of the hour (1.0 AA)
10:00-10:30 am - Break
10:30-11:20 am - Most Popular AA session of the hour (1.0 AA)
11:20-1:00 pm - Lunch Break
1:00-1:50 pm - Revenue Recognition; Robert Bedwell; (1.0 AA)
1:50-2:00pm - Break
2:00-2:50 pm - Oops! I Stepped in a Pile of Fraud: The Legal, Ethical and Practical Considerations for CPAs When They Discover Fraud; (1AA); Michael B. Hood
2:50-3:20 pm - Break
3:20-4:10 pm - Understanding Basic Fiduciary Accounting (1AA); Jacqueline Patterson, JD, CPA, MBT
4:10-4:20pm - Break
4:20-5:10 pm - Distributions form Entities, Total Return Trust & Including Capital Gaines in DNI; (1AA); Jacqueline Patterson, JD, CPA, MBT
*TBD
*Fraud
*Basic Fiduciary Accounting
*Distribution from Entities
*Cybersecurity
*Data Analytics
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Bob is an Audit and Advisory professional with over 37 years of audit and accounting experience. Bob regularly assists clients with a full range of corporate audit and assurance services, including financial statement preparation, auditing, SEC reporting, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, due diligence, financing regulatory compliance, accounting system oversight, internal controls, IFRS conversions, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance advisory, and the independent review of external data.
Bob has been a discussion leader on numerous topics for Surgent Professional Education, the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, as well as for the firms for which he has worked, and has received high evaluations for his knowledge of topics and presentation skills.
Bob received his Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance from Upsala College in East Orange, New Jersey, and has also earned a Masters in Accounting from Florida Atlantic University. Licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in Florida, Bob is a member of the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants (FICPA) and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He has previously served as chairman of the FICPA Accounting Principles and Auditing Standards Committee.
Subject areas for which Bob has served as a discussion leader include:
Professional Ethics
Accounting and Auditing Update
Compilation and Review Update
Governmental and Not-for-Profit Annual Update
New Lease Accounting Standard (author and presenter)
New Revenue Recognition Standard (author and presenter)
Non-profit Accounting and Financial Reporting
Applying the Uniform Guidance in Your Single Audits
Audits of Employee Benefit Plans
Auditing Workpapers: Documenting and Reviewing Field Work
Recognizing and Responding to Fraud Risk in Governmental and Not-for-Profit Organizations
The AICPA Financial Reporting Framework for Small and Medium Sized Entities (author and presenter)
After serving 25 years as a Special Agent in the FBI, Michael “Bret” Hood became the director of 21st Century Learning & Consulting, LLC upon his retirement in 2016. During his tenure with the FBI, Bret worked many complex financial crime, money laundering, corruption and major cases such as the 9/11 terrorist attack, the HealthSouth fraud and the Maricopa Investments case.
Since 2000, Bret has traveled the world teaching public and private sector employees how to develop anti-fraud, anti-bribery, anti-corruption and anti-money laundering programs. Bret is a master facilitator who has the unique ability to get participants involved in deep conversations while applying the lessons learned to their own personal and work situations. Bret has been a presenter at the ACFE’s Global Fraud conference for the last three years and has worked with local and regional ACFE chapters in Columbus, Ohio, Kansas City, MO, New Haven, CT, and Albany, NY. In addition, Bret has done multiple presentations for CPA groups including the Florida Institute of CPAs where he has instructed at their major trade show for years. Bret has published articles in both Fraud Magazine and ACAMS Today. Bret has a great interest in the psychology, patterns, methods and motives of offenders in an attempt to understand why good people end up doing bad things.
Bret is a federal-court certified expert in money laundering and financial crimes. Bret is also the author of the critically acclaimed book, Eat More Ice Cream: A Succinct Leadership Lesson for Each Week of the Year. Currently, Bret serves as an instructor, investigative consultant, and as an expert witness for 21st Century Learning & Consulting LLC.
Business Professionals' Network, Inc. is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org
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