The session will focus on:

1. Insurance market trends and risk financing options for health insurance and property and casualty coverages. Funding options reviewed will include traditional, self-insured, and captive structures. 

2. The program will also review the escalating costs of health care and their impact on premiums and risk mitigation options.

Joint ventures continue to be prevalent in current times. This session will explore the reasons why contractors enter into joint ventures.

Bricks, Bytes and Behaviors

The pandemic has accelerated new ways of working and technology transformation, including cyber risk, auditing of new processes, tracking of where people live and work and reimagining the future of flexibility in a post-pandemic world.

We have witnessed six major resets for Work Reimagined. Together we will review key themes and explore market insights across these six key areas.

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) aspects continue to be a priority for institutional investors' when judging risk-adjusted return profiles.  The real estate and infrastructure asset classes are subject to a range of forward physical and transitional risks, highlighting the need for structured, non-financial data. Learn how global investors are uncovering these insights while driving change in the real estate and infrastructure investment classes.

In these turbulent times tenants across the globe may struggle to pay rent, thereby putting pressure on real estate investors to repay their debt. Modifications and restructurings of real estate company’s debt have become an unfortunate common theme.

Learning objectives

• Understand the overall US GAAP accounting framework to apply to debt modifications
• Understand how to evaluate and differentiate between an extinguishment of debt and a continuation of existing debt
• Understand the accounting implications for both extinguishments and continuation of modified debt

With the implementation of ASC 606 now complete, hear what the surety industry has seen as the major differences in financial statement presentation and what has been the effect to underwriting

You still have options. Let’s see what might make sense to think about as we wrap up 2020 and what to consider up until you file your returns.

Objectives:

1. Gather year end preparedness ideas to give some footing during uncertainty.
2. Bring forth ideas that perhaps previously didn’t apply to your company’s model.
3. Discover why filing under extension may be an appropriate option for 2020.

Cybersecurity is an important institutional concern. The COVID-19 pandemic has elevated the cybersecurity concern to a new level of priority. Considering the current circumstances the pandemic has brought to reality, we remain dedicated to providing relevant information about identifying risks, useful practices, and legal and regulatory responses to cybersecurity threats.

This session will focus on the following:
The shift in the office of the CFO from back office to business partner

• How have the past 9 months changed the way you think about the following:
  • Risk – diversification geographically & by property type, tenant concentration, etc.
  • Innovation and Technology
  • Next year’s forecast
• ESG – how do we measure value / progress and how / does it make a difference for your company? How is it changing?
  • Sustainability
  • D&I
  • Governance
  • Other

• And More

Our panel will cover Construction Accounting and Auditing issues. The audience will:

1. Learn about hot topics affecting construction and engineering companies in the current environment
2. Learn about trends in the auditing of construction contractors

This session will provide attendees with a comprehensive overview on various issues, initiatives, and solutions that encompass  Business succession and continunity planning.  Essentially, we will explore a comprehensive approach that will teach the attendee ways to properly plan, identify techniques, value and suggest alternative approaches to accomplish goals and objectives pertaining to ownership and continunity matters.

We'll review the latest developments in the Paycheck Protection Program and other business relief programs. You'll get insights on the forgiveness process for PPP loans and other current issues.