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Earnings Management: Advanced Techniques ON DEMAND

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1.0 Credits

Member Price $29.00

Non-Member Price $33.00

Overview

This course provides an overview of advanced earnings management techniques and their ethical implications. This course addresses advanced methods such as financial engineering, tax planning, big bath accounting, accounting policy changes, and round-trip transactions. Throughout this course, the ethical considerations inherent in these techniques are addressed through a series of example situations.

Highlights

Earnings management: advanced techniques. Financial engineering. Tax planning. Big bath accounting. Accounting policy changes. Round-trip transactions.

Prerequisites

None.

Designed For

CPAs, CEOs, CFPs, and other accounting professionals.

Objectives

Identify financial engineering techniques in advanced earnings management. Distinguish legitimate tax planning from earnings management strategies. Determine the impact of big bath accounting on financial reporting. Differentiate permissible changes in accounting policies from manipulative adjustments. Recognize risks associated with round-trip transactions in earnings management.

Preparation

None.

Notice

None.

Leader(s):

Leader Bios

Kelen Camehl, Western CPE

Kelen is a recognized author and reviewer of CPE courses and has authored over 85 courses (225+ CPE credit hours) covering a range of accounting, auditing, financial reporting, regulatory, and ethics topics. His courses are available for purchase from many online CPE providers including the AICPA. Kelen has also remained involved in CPA exam content development for nearly 10 years and has authored more than a thousand multiple choice questions for various sections of the CPA exam. He also serves as an Editorial Advisor for the AICPA’s “Journal of Accountancy”.

Kelen has over 15 years of progressive finance and accounting experience. He currently serves as an Accounting Policy Consultant with HP, Inc. in Dallas, TX. Most recently he was located in Budapest, Hungary on a three-year international assignment and served in the company’s Houston, TX location prior to this assignment. Prior to HP, he served in multiple accounting roles in the oil & gas industry with ConocoPhillips including technical accounting policy, SOX compliance, and internal audit. He also gained public accounting experience with PricewaterhouseCoopers, working with various clients in the energy, electric, power, gas, and utility sectors.

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Non-Member Price $33.00

Member Price $29.00