AICPA’s Annual Update: Top Governmental and Not-for-Profit Accounting and Auditing Issues Facing CPAs (111213A-15)
Description
Preparers of governmental and nonprofit financial statements and their
auditors often seek advice from the AICPA’s Technical Hotline as well as
from the GASB Technical Inquiry System. The advice they receive from
these sources is high-quality and non-authoritative, but offers viable
solutions or reasonable alternatives for accounting and auditing issues
related to governmental and nonprofit organizations. The objective of
this course is to enhance participants’ knowledge and application of
professional judgment by providing a review of the top accounting and
auditing issues faced by preparers of governmental and not-for-profit
financial statements and their auditors based on calls and inquiries
received by both the AICPA and GASB over the past year.
Learning Objectives
Understand current accounting issues facing governmental and
notfor-profit organizations.
Recognize audit challenges related to
newly effective GASB standards.
Properly reflect accounting
transactions resulting from recent GASB pronouncements.
Focus on the
audit issues related to new and existing GASB standards.
Major Topics
Current GASB developments
Audit issues related to GASB developments
Recent GASB pronouncements and their impact on accounting and
reporting
Top advice from the AICPA's Technical Hotline and the GASB
Technical Inquiry System
Course Level
Intermediate
CPE Field of Study
Accounting (Governmental)
4
Auditing (Governmental)
4
Prerequisites
Experience in governmental accounting and auditing