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Our focus is on the past two years, the present and the future of construction.
Join us as we discuss leadership and adaptability in times of uncertainty, strategies on a successful future and the importance of technology.
This session will focus on the following:
State of the CRE Industry from the CFO Perspective:
How has the post-COVID environment has changed the way you think about the following:
ESG – how do we measure value / progress and how / does it make a difference for your company? How is it changing?
Standardizing Transparency & Efficiency in Investor Reporting
This session will provide an inside look at Washington, D.C. and its continued dysfunction, and what the spending decisions, tax debate, and infrastructure proposals mean to companies competing to be profitable in the construction industry. Matt Turkstra of the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) looks at the construction policy agenda in Congress and the Biden Administration and how actions in Washington will impact the industry in 2021 and beyond.
If you watch CNBC or read the Wall Street Journal, I am sure you have heard the term SPAC. They have dominated the financial news for the last 18 months. In this presentation we will explain to you what a SPAC is, how one works and why they are important for companies considering raising capital.
Join Mike Cheng for a Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) update. This discussion will focus on recent changes that impact financial reporting in the upcoming year and beyond.
In this 50 minute seminar, Tony Nitti will take you through the current state of tax reform, looking at where we stand, how we got here, and what's next.
Listen to top real estate executives to discuss COVID’s effect on, values, operations, personal and business processes. The session will be a panel discussing what action plans these companies implemented to push forward in light of COVID and what the future now looks like for gaming, bioscience real estate, office and multifamily. Have your questions ready for this panel of experts!
This session is an opportunity to interact with leaders in the construction tax arena. Attendees will gain:
A review of current trends and developments impacting the construction tax industry
Insights from a detailed discussion on tax topics presented in earlier sessions
The opportunity to participate in Q&A on topics important to their company and/or practice
Join us to discover the secrets to delivering effective job cost accounting to enable both construction finance and project teams alike. Driven by knowledge gained over the course of decades of delivering construction accounting and operational solutions, we’ll focus on adapting time-tested workflows and best practices into a modern cloud-based construction accounting solution.
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) corrected the recovery period of Qualified Improvement Property (QIP) to 15-year. This has tremendous implications and will play a large role in a modern comprehensive tax strategy. In this session we will examine the historical treatment of Qualified Property Categories and focus on the current status of QIP under the CARES Act. We will also explore other strategies that may be part of a comprehensive tax strategy and will discuss a strategic hierarchy for employing those strategies most successfully. Relevant Rev. Procs. and several real-life case studies will be reviewed.
The Employee Retention Tax Credit has been valuable for some, seemingly out of reach for others. Before we close out the calendar year, hear a solid and easy to follow overview of the ERTC. It's not too late.
About a quarter of corporate breaches are related to insiders, who have much more access to information than in the past thanks, in part due to cloud collaboration tools and a proliferation of platforms adopted across an organization. This discussion will feature industry experts who have developed insider threat programs for both government and corporate clients. The discussion will cover both the current state of insider threats, contemporary case examples, and effective steps for building your own insider threat program.
Valuation continues to be a focus of regulators, investors, auditors, and other stakeholders. Despite the COVID 19 pandemic, many asset classes performed exceptionally well, some plummeted, but many of those that did are recovering quickly. However, valuation challenges remain as transaction activity among some asset classes remain low and forecasting revenue and near-term capital expenditures continues to be difficult.
Our panel will cover Construction Accounting and Auditing issues. The audience will:
Learn about hot topics affecting construction and engineering companies in the current environment
This session provides an introduction to key ESG concepts and an overview of ESG reporting trend, regulatory update, specifically for the real estate and construction industries.
The Real Estate Tax Update will cover real estate-related federal income tax authority and guidance issued over the last year, including legislative developments and proposals, court decisions on disguised sale transactions and cancellation of indebtedness income, and final regulations and IRS guidance related to like-kind exchanges, REITs, the business interest expense deduction limitations and depreciable lives of residential real property.
In this interactive panel, attendees will learn about Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), the impact of NFT Funds in real estate, reasons for the popularity of digital real estate, and how the real estate industry is changing.
Some of the discussion points that the audience will learn are:
Sureties and banks have historically looked to the CPA profession as a reason for at least some of their losses when they relied upon audited or reviewed financial statements when providing credit to their customers and principals. This issue has significantly increased in 2021 due to COVID as many contractors and developers have felt the impact of the pandemic
And for you folks in industry, you must remember that you have an exposure equal to the CPA in public practice since you are responsible for the fair presentation of the financial statements
In this presentation, we will discuss why CPAs get sied and ways to prevent this terrible situation including a number of "real-life" stories.
This session will cover what a contractor needs to know when considering an ESOP as part of a succession/continuity and ownership transfer strategy. This session will provide an analysis from beginning to end so that there are no surprises, and will assist the contractor in knowing what questions to ask and how to analyze an ESOP alternative in a construction environment