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2022 AICPA & CIMA Employee Benefit Plans Accounting, Auditing and Regulatory Update



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This includes sessions from the conference: 2022 AICPA & CIMA Employee Benefit Plans Accounting, Auditing and Regulatory Update

Sessions Included:

Welcome and KEYNOTE - Tectonic Economic, Financial, and Technological Shifts Shaping the Decade Ahead (Dec 08, 2022 11:30 AM)

Feeling a Little PEPish? Pooled Employer Plans in 2023 (Dec 08, 2022 07:40 AM)

Electronic Audit Evidence (Dec 08, 2022 12:40 PM)

Employee Benefit Plan Update (Dec 08, 2022 02:25 PM)

Employee Benefit Plan Audit Risk Management Best Practices (Dec 08, 2022 03:50 PM)

Correct or Not Correct (Dec 09, 2022 12:50 PM)

Record Keeping Panel (Dec 09, 2022 12:50 PM)

$29900
Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for Feeling a Little PEPish?  Pooled Employer Plans in 2023
    Identification
    AAR2202
    Date
    December 8, 2022

    Feeling a little PEPish? Pooled Employer Plans (or PEPs) are a variety of multiple employer plan that came into being as part of the original SECURE Act. PEPs have been permissible since 2021, and they are popping up all over the industry. Join Ilene Ferenczy for a survey of these plans, including what PEPs have to offer, what drawbacks exist, what rules are still not fleshed out by the IRS and the DOL, and what the auditing challenges for these plans can be.

    Objectives

    • Identify what PEPs are, legal requirements, and role in retirement industry
    • Identify challenges in auditing PEPs
    • Identify issues as yet unresolved and needed government guidance

    Speaker

    Speaker Image for Ilene Ferenczy
    Ilene H. Ferenczy, Esq., CPC, APA
    Managing Partner, Ferenczy Benefits Law Center
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for Welcome and KEYNOTE - Tectonic Economic, Financial, and Technological Shifts Shaping the Decade Ahead
    Identification
    AAR2201
    Date
    December 8, 2022

    Recent headlines have been dominated by major economic challenges and a shift in geopolitics. In this talk, Jason Schenker, President of Prestige Economics and Chairman of The Futurist Institute®, will explore the challenges of current economic and financial market dynamics, as well as geopolitical topics. Mr. Schenker's remarks will address the state of inflation, global debt, interest rates, equities, bond yields, commodities, and foreign exchange markets. There will also be a discussion of the potential near-term impacts of higher interest rates on economic growth, business investment, and the labor market. Mr. Schenker will discuss how Cold War Two® has contributed to the downdraft in financial markets and growth as well as what future challenges lie ahead for global stability, global supply chain, and commodity markets. Looking further into the future, Mr. Schenker will discuss how long-run trendlines in demographics and technology reveal some economic risks and opportunities. Mr. Schenker will share actionable takeaways and winning strategies to help companies succeed in the current era of uncertainty. Plus, Mr. Schenker will also share actionable winning strategies for the decade ahead.

    Objectives

    • Assess critical factors shaping current and near-term future economic and financial market conditions.
    • Evaluate economic, supply chain, and operational risks posed by Cold War Two® and related geopolitical issues.
    • Evaluate future economic opportunities in the decade ahead presented by new and emerging technologies.
    • Apply actionable winning strategies to the current situation and in the decade ahead.

    Speaker

    Speaker Image for Jason Schenker
    Jason Schenker, FLTA® CFP® CMT® ERP® SCR®
    Chairman of The Futurist Institute; President of Prestige Economics, The Futurist Institute and Prestige Economics
    $4900
    Standard Price
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    Identification
    AAR2203
    Date
    December 8, 2022

    A significant amount of information is electronically initiated, recorded, processed, or reported, and information to be used as audit evidence may be available only in electronic form. During this session we will explore SAS No. 142, Audit Evidence, the new auditing standard that addresses what constitutes audit evidence. We will also look at different types of information commonly presented to an auditor during the audit of an employee benefit plan, and identify considerations for auditors when evaluating information to be used as audit evidence.

    Objectives

    • Recognize how the nature of information to be used as audit evidence in an employee benefit plan has evolved.
    • Identify how SAS No. 142, Audit Evidence, addresses what constitutes audit evidence.
    • Identify ways in which auditors might test the accuracy and completeness of information to be used as audit evidence that is electronically initiated, recorded, processed, or reported.

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for Debbie Smith
    Partner, Grant Thornton LLP
    Speaker Image for Chip Harris
    Partner, RubinBrown LLP
    Speaker Image for Brian Price
    Partner, PriceKubecka, PLLC
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for Employee Benefit Plan Update
    Identification
    AAR2204
    Date
    December 8, 2022

    This session will discuss standards and other developments that impact employee benefit plan audits.

    Objectives

    • Recognize observations on 2021 audit cycle
    • Identify new auditing standards
    • Recognize select legislative, regulatory and industry developments

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for Debbie Smith
    Partner, Grant Thornton LLP
    Speaker Image for Josie Hammond
    National Director of Employee Benefit Plans, RSM US LLP
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for Employee Benefit Plan Audit Risk Management Best Practices
    Identification
    AAR2205
    Date
    December 8, 2022

    This presentation focuses on risk management best practices when conducting audits of employee benefit plans. The session offers lessons learned from CAMICO’s decades-long history defending CPAs from employee benefit plan and other A&A claims and provides important dos and don’ts to protect CPAs and their clients.

    Topics highlighted will include:

    • Where do EBP audit claims come from? What does history tell us?
    • Impact of select recent pronouncements including:
    • SAS No. 136 – Forming an Opinion and Reporting on Financial Statements of Employee Benefit Plans Subject to ERISA
    • The recent suite of auditing standards
    • SSARS No. 25 – Materiality in a Review of Financial Statements and Adverse Conclusions
    • Lessons learned from CAMICO claims history
    • Other risk management techniques to CYA (“cover your auditing/attest work”)

    Objectives

    • Identify risk management best practices when conducting audits of employee benefit plans.
    • Identify important dos and don’ts to protect CPAs and their clients.

    Speaker

    Speaker Image for Duncan Will
    Duncan Will, CPA/ABV/CFF, CFE
    Accounting & Auditing Loss Prevention Specialist, CAMICO Mutual Insurance
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for Correct or Not Correct
    Identification
    AAR2208
    Date
    December 9, 2022

    In this session, we will discuss some of the most common issues identified during the 2022 EBP audit season and ways that plan sponsors might be able to “fix” those issues. The issues covered in this session will not only include operational errors, such as definition of compensation errors, but they will also include fiduciary errors, such as certain prohibited transactions, and late filing errors. In order to provide diverse perspectives on each of the topics covered, you will hear from both an auditor and a tax specialist.

    Objectives

    • Identify operational errors, definition of compensation errors, fiduciary errors, and late filing errors.

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for Rance Buss
    Partner, Employee Benefit Plan Audit Services, Weaver LLP
    Speaker Image for Patrick Blanchard
    Patrick Blanchard, JD, LL.M. (Taxation)
    Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal
    $4900
    Standard Price
  • Thumbnail for Record Keeping Panel
    Identification
    AAR2209
    Date
    December 9, 2022

    join us for this panel discussion featuring panelist from Empower, Principal and Fidelity. They will discuss opportunities and challenges that recordkeepers face and discuss collaborations with auditors. They will also discuss  how recordkeepers operate, with consideration to changing technology and general environmental changes.

    Objectives

    • Recognize how recordkeepers operate, with consideration to changing technology and general environmental changes.
    • Identify opportunities and challenges that recordkeepers face and discuss collaborations with auditors.

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for Robyn Kumler-Gross
    Product Lead, Testing & Reporting Services, Fidelity
    Speaker Image for Kevin Kolter
    Senior Product Manager, Empower
    Speaker Image for Linh Lu Le
    Sr. Business Project Lead, Principal Financial Group
    $4900
    Standard Price

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