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Accounting and Financial Reporting: Current Developments

  • ITEM SKU
    6445
  • CPE Hours
    16
  • Full Course Price
    $109.50
Exam Questions: 80
Course Level: Basic
Pages: 474 | Content: 462, Supplemental: 12
NASBA Area of Study: Accounting
Not Acceptable for: Enrolled Agents
Version: 6445P

The purpose of this course is to inform the reader of the various changes to accounting and financial reporting affecting the accounting professional. Topics include a review of FASB projects, including those related to leases, financial instruments, practice issues involving the statement of cash flows, fair value reporting, pensions, the international convergence project, little GAAP, and more. The course also includes a discussion of tax issues impacting financial statements and a review of selected recently issued accounting standards (ASUs). The structure of the course is to encourage the reader to recall existing GAAP rules coupled with identifying, stating, and outlining rules related to new and proposed pronouncements. PLEASE NOTE: Not accepted for Enrolled Agents. All course material provided. Prerequisites: General understanding of U.S. GAAP. Course level: Overview/Basic.

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Table of Contents
  • Significant GAAP Changes in 2025 and Beyond
  • FASB Agenda
  • Reporting Information About the Financial Performance of Business Enterprises
  • Restatements and Other Financial Reporting Abuses
  • SEC Adopts Final Rule on Dodd-Frank’s Section 954 Clawback Requirement
  • The Gradual Demise of Company Pension Plans
  • International Accounting Standards Convergence
  • LIFO in High-Inflation Environment
  • Dealing with Debt Unrealized Losses in 2025 and 2024
  • Equity Securities Unrealized Losses in 2025 and 2024
  • Implementing ASU 2016-13: Credit Losses (Topic 326)
  • Post-Implementation Issues- the Lease Standard- ASU 2016-02 and ASU 2023-01
  • The GAAP Codification Overview
  • Big GAAP–Little GAAP
  • Going-Concern Assessment by Management
  • ESG Disclosures- A Previously Hot Topic About to Be Irrelevant
  • Post-Implementation Update on Revenue Recognition Standard
  • Earnings Manipulation
  • Inventories and Impact of Inflation on Valuations
  • Business Interruption Insurance Coverage- Post COVID-19
  • Dealing with Estimates- Variable Revenue
  • Loan Modifications and Covenants
  • Remote Engagements
  • Losses on Onerous Contracts
  • Some Banks Are in Trouble
  • GAAP Deficiencies in Peer Review
  • The VIE Rules- Using ASU 2018-17 with Common Control Arrangements
  • Accounting and Disclosures for the ERC: 2025-2024
  • Accounting and Disclosures for the Pass-Through Entity (PTE) Tax
  • Higher Tax Rates in 2024 to 2027- Reversal of TCJA Tax Benefits
  • Financial Statement Effect of Tax Changes Coming in 2025
  • NOL Carryforwards and Deferred Tax Assets
  • Higher Interest Rates and the Limitation on Interest Deduction
  • Accounting and Tax Issues Related to Marijuana
  • Order of Placement of Financial Statements
  • Risk of Unrecorded Sales Tax Liabilities- Wayfair Decision
  • The Statement of Cash Flows-Unusual Reporting Issues
  • Selected Accounting Standards Updates (ASUs)
  • ASU 2023-05: Business Combinations- Joint Venture Formations (Subtopic 805-60)- Recognition and Initial Measurement
  • ASU 2023-08: Intangibles- Goodwill and Other- Crypto Assets (Subtopic 350-60)- Accounting for and Disclosure of Crypto Assets
  • ASU 2023-09: Income Taxes (Topic 740)- Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures 470
  • ASU 2024-03: Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income— Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40)- Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses
  • ASU 2025-01: Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40)- Clarifying the Effective Date
Objectives
  • To recognize a reason public companies over disclose in their notes to financial statements
  • To recall the definition of free cash flow
  • To recognize some of the key ratios used to analyze working capital
  • To identify some of the symptoms of inefficiently managed working capital
  • To recognize one of the characteristics of a multi-employer pension plan
  • To recognize the impact that life expectancy has on the amount of a pension liability
  • To identify the shift in the types of retirement plans over the past decade
  • To review the financial statement presentations permitted under the LIFO Conformity Requirement
  • To review how debt and equity securities should be accounted for under GAAP
  • To recognize the type of instruments that ASC 326-20’s credit loss model applies
  • To review the method used to estimate credit losses under ASU 2016-13
  • To recognize a key change found in the lease standard
  • To identify how a lessee recognizes a lease liability under the lease standard
  • To identify potential impacts from implementing the lease standard
  • To recognize the general structure of the FASB Accounting Standards Codification (ASC)
  • To recall the general GAAP rule for management’s evaluation of going concern
  • To identify a method that can be used to record variable consideration under the revenue standard
  • To recognize the approaches that are used to record revenue under the revenue standard
  • To recall how LIFO inventories should be valued under GAAP
  • To identify a loan covenant most directly impacted by an increase in the interest rate
  • To recognize the VIE accounting alternative for leases under common control in ASU 2018-17
  • To identify a particular way in which most marijuana businesses must operate
  • To recognize when a state might be able to charge sales tax under the Wayfair decision
  • To identify some unusual transactions and how they are recorded on the statement of cash flows
  • To identify an attribute of a joint venture
  • To identify how to measure a crypto asset and record it on the balance sheet and income statement
  • To recall some of the new disclosures for income taxes required by ASU 2023-09
  • To recognize one of the bases used for discussing disaggregation of expenses in ASU 2024-03

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