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 financial performance, leases, and financial instruments, practice issues involving the statement of cash flows, fair value reporting, pensions, the international convergence project, little GAAP, and more. 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.
The course also has a discussion of accounting and financial reporting issues related to COVID-19.
Course Publication Date:
July 20, 2020
This course is available with
NO ADDITIONAL FEE if you have an active
self study membership or
all access membership or can be purchased for
$160.00!
| Author: | Steven Fustolo |
| Course No: | ACT-CURRENTDEV-6080 |
| Recommended CPE: | 16.00 |
| Delivery Method: | QAS Self Study |
| Level of Knowledge: | Overview |
| Prerequisites: | None |
| Advanced Preparation: | None |
| Recommended Field of Study: | Accounting
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Learning Objectives
- Identify some of the 12 recommended principles for the Comprehensive Business Reporting Model.
- Recall the definition of free cash flow.
- Recognize some of the key ratios used to analyze working capital.
- Identify some of the symptoms of inefficiently managed working capital.
- Identify some of the key differences in the clawback provisions found in Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank.
- Recognize one of the characteristics of a multi-employer pension plan.
- Identify some of the key benefits and disadvantages of the principles-based system.
- Recall one of the reasons why U.S. convergence with international standards has not occurred.
- Identify a key change made to lease accounting by ASU 2016-02.
- Recognize the general structure of the FASB Accounting Standards Codification (ASC).
- Recognize some of the differences between IFRS for SMEs and IFRS.
- Recognize how to account for deferred income taxes under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
- Identify how to account for deferred tax assets and liabilities when converting from S to C corporation.
- Recognize how to present deferred income taxes on the balance sheet under ASU 2015-17.
- Identify some unusual transactions and how they are recorded on the statement of cash flows.
- Recognize the types of arrangements that qualify a not-for-profit entity for ASU 2019-06’s accounting alternative elections related to goodwill amortization and acquisitions.
- Recognize the accounting alternative for certain related-party leases in ASU 2018-17.
- Identify the impairment test for goodwill under ASU 2017-04.