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2025 Accounting Update WEBCAST

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4.0 Credits

Member Price $175.00

Non-Member Price $200.00

Overview

The amount of change in the accounting profession is staggering, making it tough for the average CPA to keep up. This CPA CPE course equips accounting professionals with essential knowledge of current FASB updates, financial instruments, and emerging technologies in finance. The accounting CPE course covers critical topics including the latest GAAP updates, accounting for basic and complex financial instruments, new credit loss provisions, and emerging concepts in blockchain and cryptocurrency.

Highlights

Current FASB updates, financial instruments, and emerging technologies in finance.

Prerequisites

None.

Designed For

CPAs, financial managers, and accounting professionals.

Objectives

Apply the most pervasive accounting updates issued by the FASB. Apply accounting standards for the more basic financial instruments. Describe the basics of accounting for more complex financial instruments. Describe the concepts of blockchain. cryptocurrency and NFTs. Apply the new provisions for Credit Losses. Identify and apply the most pervasive GAAP updates. Cite the basics of the narrow scope GAAP updates. Describe the Elements of Financial Statements under the FASB Concepts. Describe proper presentation under the FASB Concepts.

Preparation

None.

Notice

None.

Leader(s):

Leader Bios

Jennifer Louis, Surgent McCoy CPE LLC

Jennifer F. Louis, CPA has over 25 years of experience in designing and presenting high-quality training programs in a wide variety of technical accounting, auditing, and “soft skills” topics needed for professional and organizational success. She is the principal author of audit and attest related courses for Surgent and a frequent speaker at Surgent live programs and seminars. Ms. Louis is also the president of Emergent Solutions Group, LLC, a company she founded in 2003, dedicated to developing and delivering a wide variety of accounting and auditing training services, including audit staff training, audit productivity improvement, and value-added auditing. Prior to that, she was executive vice president/director of training services at AuditWatch, Inc. Before joining AuditWatch, Ms. Louis was the financial/operational internal 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 training sessions. Ms. Louis was also an audit manager for Deloitte and Touche, LLP. During her years in that firm’s Washington, D.C. office, she served as an instructor for the firm’s national “Train the Trainers” program. Ms. Louis graduated summa cum laude from Marymount University with a BBA in accounting.

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Non-Member Price $200.00

Member Price $175.00