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Accounting and Reporting Long-Term Debt


Total Credits: 2 including 2 Accounting - Technical

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ACPEN Industry Institute |  Accounting and Auditing |  Yellow Book
Faculty:
Jennifer Louis, CPA
Course Levels:
Basic
Duration:
2 Hours
License:
Product Setting: Expires 30 day(s) after program date.

Dates
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Description

Debt is typically a critical component of the financial statements, impacting the economic decisions of financial statement users. This course will address common issues that may impact the proper presentation and disclosure of debt, including debt covenant compliance and other issues that impact classification of the liability between current vs. noncurrent. 

Basic Course Information

Learning Objectives
  • Describe the importance of proper debt classification and disclosure
  • Explain how various common debt terms impact the classification of debt
  • Apply illustrative examples to appropriate disclosure of debt terms and circumstances

Major Subjects
  • Debt terms that impact classification of debt, such as due on demand and subjective acceleration clauses, and more!
  • Proper treatment of short-term obligations that are expected to refinance within the next 12 months
  • "Revolving" credit agreements, where short-term debt is automatically replaced with other short-term debt for a specified period of time
  • Differentiating between debt modifications and troubled debt restructuring
  • Debt covenant compliance special considerations, including the proper form of waiver of rights to call the debt for violation 

Course Materials

Faculty

Jennifer Louis, CPA's Profile

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President

EMERGENT SOLUTIONS GROUP


Jennifer has over 25 years experience in designing and instructing high-quality training programs in a wide variety of technical and “soft skills” topics needed for professional and organization success.  In 2003 she founded Emergent Solutions Group, which is dedicated to meeting organization’s professional training needs on a project or part-time basis.  Jennifer serves a wide variety of clients, including public accounting firms, state CPA societies, private industry corporations, and public sector agencies.Previously Jennifer served as the Director of Audit Product Development at Surgent Professional Education for three years.  Prior to that, Jennifer was Executive Vice President/Director of Training Services at AuditWatch, Inc., a highly respected training and audit process consulting firm later acquired by Thomson Reuters.  Over her six years at AuditWatch, Jennifer served many roles.  She began her career at AuditWatch as Vice President of Product Development.   Jennifer also served as an instructor and consultant for the firm’s Audit Productivity Improvement Program (a comprehensive program enabling accounting firms to enhance audit quality and improve audit efficiency), as well as various other training courses.  Later, Jennifer was primarily responsible for working with clients to design high-caliber, customized training programs.  She led the Training Services Division, which includes AuditWatch University (“core-level” staff training for new hires to managers) and related offerings.  She also co-authored the Guide to Value-Added Auditing (Thomson/Practitioners Publishing Company, Fort Worth, TX, July 2001).

Before joining AuditWatch, Jennifer was the Financial/Operational Audit Manager at AARP.  While at AARP she served as one of their specially trained facilitators available as a resource throughout the organization for designing and leading strategic meetings and trainings.

Jennifer was also an Audit Manager at Deloitte, in Washington, DC.  During her five years with Deloitte, she was a frequent local and national instructor.  Jennifer also served as an instructor for the firm’s national “Train the Trainers” program. 

Jennifer graduated summa cum laude from Marymount University with a BBA-Accounting.  She is currently a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and is licensed to practice accounting in the Commonwealth of Virginia and North Carolina.Contact Jennifer via email at jlouis@emergentgroup.net, or via LinkedIn


Dates

Tue, May 06, 2025 - 04:00pm to 05:47pm PDT
Fri, May 16, 2025 - 09:00am to 10:47am PDT
Thu, Jun 05, 2025 - 11:00am to 12:47pm PDT
Sat, Jun 21, 2025 - 01:00pm to 02:47pm PDT
Thu, Jun 26, 2025 - 07:00am to 08:47am PDT
Mon, Jul 14, 2025 - 09:00am to 10:47am PDT
Thu, Jul 31, 2025 - 11:00am to 12:47pm PDT
Fri, Aug 01, 2025 - 01:00pm to 02:47pm PDT
Sat, Aug 16, 2025 - 07:00am to 08:47am PDT
Thu, Sep 11, 2025 - 04:00pm to 05:47pm PDT
Thu, Sep 25, 2025 - 11:00am to 12:47pm PDT
Wed, Oct 01, 2025 - 01:00pm to 02:47pm PDT
Thu, Oct 16, 2025 - 07:00am to 08:47am PDT
Thu, Nov 13, 2025 - 09:00am to 10:47am PST
Sat, Nov 29, 2025 - 11:00am to 12:47pm PST
Tue, Dec 02, 2025 - 04:00pm to 05:47pm PST
Sat, Dec 13, 2025 - 07:00am to 08:47am PST
Mon, Dec 22, 2025 - 09:00am to 10:47am PST
Fri, Jan 09, 2026 - 11:00am to 12:47pm PST
Thu, Jan 22, 2026 - 01:00pm to 02:47pm PST
Tue, Feb 17, 2026 - 07:00am to 08:47am PST
Fri, Feb 27, 2026 - 09:00am to 10:47am PST
Sat, Mar 07, 2026 - 11:00am to 12:47pm PST
Tue, Mar 17, 2026 - 01:00pm to 02:47pm PDT
Fri, Apr 17, 2026 - 07:00am to 08:47am PDT
Thu, Apr 30, 2026 - 04:00pm to 05:47pm PDT
Tue, May 05, 2026 - 11:00am to 12:47pm PDT
Sat, May 30, 2026 - 01:00pm to 02:47pm PDT
Mon, Jun 01, 2026 - 07:00am to 08:47am PDT
Thu, Jun 11, 2026 - 09:00am to 10:47am PDT
Thu, Jun 18, 2026 - 11:00am to 12:47pm PDT

Additional Info

Basic Course Information

Prerequisites None
Advanced Preparation None
Designed For Anyonne responsible for preparing or attesting upon financial statements
Original Recording Date 04/2025
Course Developer EMERGENT SOLUTIONS GROUP
Date Added to Catalog 03/2025
Yellow Book Yes

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Online Registration


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