Concurrent Session (Onsite and Online)

As the new chapter for multiemployer plans in the AICPA's Employee Benefit Plan: Audit &; Accounting Guide is nearing completion, attend this session for an exclusive preview. This session will cover peer review findings in these plans, audit and accounting best practices, and examples…

Governments currently are in the throws of implementing the new fiduciary activities standards and planning the implementation of the new leases Statement. This session primarily is intended to assist practitioners with the implementation of these new standards…

The YellowBook Update will outline how changes in the 2018 Revised YellowBook will impact auditors who are required to report under Government Auditing Standards. This update will include perspectives on independence and meeting the continuing education requirements…

Data is everywhere. Whether its automation or algorithms, data is the essential ingredient to such innovations. And there is a lot of it: IDC estimates that there will be 163 Zettabytes of data by 2025. Why? Trends like the Internet of Things (IoT) promise to deliver 79…

Whether you are an auditor or preparer of financial statements, there are key decisions to consider in order to successfully navigate the lease accounting implementation journey…

This session will focus on both best practices and common oversights when it comes to succession planning. The elements of succession planning must comprehensively address clients, leadership, valuable employees and owners (future, remaining and retiring)…

As our profession expects to lose many of its entrepreneurial rainmakers to retirement in the coming years, more firms are focused on embedding “true business development acumen into their DNA…

The session will take a deeper dive into how to create value from the required assessment of internal controls. It will also dispel some myths and miss-understandings that inhibit efficient and compliant practice…

This session will go under the hood and and analyze just what exactly stablecoins are, how they function, and why they are attracting so much attention…

Many limited liability companies and similar organizations have granted profits interests to management and service providers. In this session, participants will walk through a case study that identifies the common challenges in accounting for profits interests…

Join the Center for Plain English Accounting in this unique session based on technical inquiries submitted by our members over the past year…

In July 2019, the AICPA Auditing Standards Board (ASB) issued as a final standards Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 136, Forming an Opinion and Reporting on Financial Statements Subject to ERISA (EBP SAS)…

The adoption of ASC Topic 606, Revenue Recognition from Contracts with Customers finally behind us. This session will look at what we learned in implementing the new guidance, and highlight areas of judgment, uncertainty, or diversity…

Learn how Lean Six Sigma concepts and techniques are being applied in public accounting firms to maximize the utilization and investment in technology. Efficiency is about more than just a technology program - it's about aligning your people with processes that maximize value and minimize waste…

The current generational shift offers an enormous opportunity to improve collaboration and efficiency and “build a better mousetrap…

Learn from leading firms on how they view innovation and operationalize it to transform traditional services…

Do projects take forever to complete? Do projects get 90% complete while the other 10% falls to the wayside? Does the chaotic process of project management seem to repeat with little or no improvement? This session covers the Project Management Institute's best practices for successful project mana…

The blockchain buzz seems to have slowed in the accounting profession…

Don't have a dedicated marketing person? Struggling to make marketing work for your firm? Marketing and growing your business requires thoughtful activity to produce results…

This session will discuss various approaches to managing retirement buyouts of retiring partners and admission of new partners in CPA firm owner agreements. The discussion will include an evaluation of the AAV or unit system as an alternative to more traditional approaches…

This session is Part 1 of a two-part session series. These sessions, which qualify for the ongoing Team/Review Captain training requirement, will cover recent changes to peer review guidance, peer review resources and other related developments…

Don't miss this opportunity to get answers to technical issues of interest to you. Standard setters will address preparation, compilation and review services, auditing standards, ethics standards, and financial accounting standards, including private company and small business issues…

This session is Part 2 of a two-part session series. These sessions, which qualify for the ongoing Team/Review Captain training requirement, will cover recent changes to peer review guidance, peer review resources and other related developments…

To Be Announced…