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Accounting & Auditing Update for Small Businesses


Total Credits: 8 including 4 Accounting - Technical, 4 Auditing- Technical

Average Rating:
   9
Categories:
Accounting and Auditing |  Partner Produced
Speaker:
Eugene Ristaino
Course Levels:
Update
Duration:
8 Hours
Product Type:
Live Webcast
License:
Product Setting: Expires 40 day(s) after program date.

Dates


Description

Geared toward practitioners who provide accounting and auditing services to small businesses, this course updates you on the new accounting, auditing, compilation, preparation, and review standards, and other professional guidance that impact small businesses and their auditors. 

Materials include practical applications of the topics covered to help you understand and apply the standards to real-life scenarios. With the rate of change in today’s regulatory environment, you must stay current on the topics impacting the profession. Your clients are counting on you! 

Basic Course Information

Learning Objectives
  • Identify recently issued FASB, ASB, and ARSC guidance and standards that impact small businesses
  • Identify key concepts related to exposure drafts and other projects in accounting and auditing 

Major Subjects
  • Accounting standards updates, including an update on leases, financial instruments, and revenue recognition
  • Latest activity from ARSC
  • Current FASB projects
  • An update on audit and attest standards
  • Private company financial reporting 

Course Materials

Speaker

Eugene Ristaino's Profile

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Gene develops and provides Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Programs, including in-person seminars and on-line webinars. He also lectures for many industry associations, and has authored numerous professional education programs.  Gene provides tailored CPA programs to accounting firms as requested. Gene is also a national instructor for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and many state societies.

 

Gene Ristaino also provides valuation services for private companies, along with accounting and auditing consultation and technical reviews for small and medium-sized CPA firms.  His expertise includes consulting services for real estate developers and construction contractors in project costing and analysis, cost certification, claim support and documentation, expert witness, business valuation and job cost system implementation and improvement.

 

Gene is a retired partner of Isdaner & Company, LLC (2016), a local firm of 65 people in the Philadelphia area, and was the director of accounting, auditing and quality control for the firm. Gene managed a diversified accounting practice (over 40 years of experience), which included accounting and auditing and technical engagement review. Gene concentrated in: real estate and construction; healthcare (nursing homes); the governmental and not-for-profit auditing sectors (yellow book), HUD regulations and the Single Audit Act; as well as substantial experience with manufacturing, transportation, retail and service organizations.

 

Gene has provided expert testimony and/or issued expert reports in numerous litigation support engagements involving real estate transactions, construction claims, family disputes and embezzlement cases. He has provided expert testimony in two Court appearances. He has also prepared construction contract claims, back charge reports, and damage reports in dispute litigation and arbitration.

 

Gene is “Accredited in Business Valuation” (ABV) and “Certified in Financial Forensics” (CFF) as designated by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). Gene has also achieved his designation of “Accredited in Business Appraisal Review” (ABAR) from the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts (NACVA).  Valuation and/or litigation engagements include construction contractors; leisure transportation; travel and tour agencies; manufacturing; real estate investment limited partnerships and LLCs; specialty restaurants; and family limited partnerships. Cases have included dissenting stockholder disputes; buy/sell transaction prices; estate and gift tax issues; and owner disputes. Gene has attended the Business Valuation Course, and the Fair Value Forum developed by the AICPA, the national Valuation Conference presented by the AICPA, as well as many national Forensic and Valuation Programs presented by the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts (NACVA).

 

Gene has a Masters in Taxation (MST) from Villanova University. His practice concentrated in corporate taxation for private companies, with a specialization in the real estate and construction industries.

 

Gene is a member of the American and Pennsylvania Institutes of Certified Public Accountants and previously served on the Peer Review and A&A Procedures committees for the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Gene was a team captain for the AICPA Peer Review Program, and has performed numerous peer reviews under the AICPA Standards.

 

Gene is a former adjunct professor of tax law for the Masters in Taxation Programs for Villanova University and Philadelphia University. He received his undergraduate BS degree in accounting from Drexel University, and earned his Masters in Taxation from Villanova University.


Additional Info

Basic Course Information

Prerequisites Previous auditing and accounting experience
Advanced Preparation None
Designed For CPAs who require a review of recent accounting and auditing pronouncements
Original Recording Date 06/28/2019
Yellow Book No
Course Developer AICPA
Date Added to Catalog 03/29/2019

Additional Information

Complaint Resolution Policy Please contact Anne Taylor for any complaints. anne.taylor@acpen.com, (972-377-8199).
Official Registry Statement Business Professionals' Network, Inc. is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org
Instructional Delivery Method Group Internet Based
Course Registration Requirements Online Registration
Refund/Cancellation Policy Please contact the ACPEN help desk 1-877-602-9877 or help@acpen.com if you wish to cancel your attendance for a previously purchased webcast and are requesting a refund or transfer.

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Total Reviews: 9

Comments

Julie H

"Very Good Instructor - really liked listening to him!"