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(SSAA187/25) Surgent’s Disclosures of Risks and Uncertainties
This course provides an overview of the disclosure requirements regarding risks and uncertainties. The disclosure requirements related to risks and uncertainties are prescribed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in ASC Topic 275. For public business entities that file their annual and interim reports with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), there are...
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(SSAA276/25) Surgent’s Surging Auditors: Revenue Rush
Stepping into the shoes of an outside technical consultant, each participant must perform an ASC 606 assessment for Quality Tiles, Inc. (QTI), a company recently acquired by Home D‚cor and More, Inc. (HDM). HDM management needs to ensure the company is in compliance with GAAP related to revenue recognition before the next board meeting. Participants...
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(SSAA279/25) Surgent’s SEC Form 8-K: When to File and What to Disclose
This course provides an overview of the SEC Form 8-K. This is a broad form used to notify investors in U.S. publicly traded companies of certain events that may be important - generally within four business days of the respective triggering event. This course provides a detailed look at the events that require a Form...
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(SSAA261/25) Surgent’s Principles of Financial Statement Presentation
This course provides an overview of the key presentation requirements with respect to an entity's financial statements. This includes a discussion of key principles related to an entity's overall presentation as well as specific topics with respect to its balance sheet, income statement, comprehensive income, statement of cash flows, as well as notes to the...
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(SSAA256/25) Surgent’s Life After Adoption: Applying Topic 606 to Revenue Contracts on an Ongoing Basis
While the effective date of Topic 606 has passed for most entities, there will always be a need for a comprehensive review of the accounting related to revenue recognition. Also, if you are taking advantage of the FASB deferral of Topic 606's effective date, you are still completing your implementation plan. Whether you are looking...
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(SSAA167/25) Surgent’s Controllership Skills Update – Budgeting, Forecasting, and Big Data
Budgets are the vehicle for allocating resources, measuring activities, and identifying needed changes and improvements. An organization's strategy is the primary driver of costs. To be effective, the budget must be linked to strategy and long-term plans. Numerous organizations have achieved a series of short-term targets (budgets) but failed longer term, demonstrating the lack of...
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(SSAA257/25) Surgent’s Life After Adoption: Applying Topic 606 to Revenue Contracts on an Ongoing Basis
While the effective date of Topic 606 has passed for most entities, there will always be a need for a comprehensive review of the accounting related to revenue recognition. Also, if you are taking advantage of the FASB deferral of Topic 606's effective date, you are still completing your implementation plan. Whether you are looking...
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(SSAA224/25) Surgent’s Understanding the High-Stakes Mega Issues in A&A Today
With so much of significance going on currently in the world of A&A today, you need to be able to make sense of the key drivers of our profession. In this course, we will review the key aspects of the events that are impacting practitioners and financial statement preparers alike.Specifically, because technology is rapidly transforming...
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(SSAA251/25) Surgent’s Non-GAAP Financial Measures – What You Need to Know
This course provides an overview of non-GAAP financial measures with a particular emphasis on comments from the SEC, the FASB, as well as comment letter analysis from several of the Big Four accounting firms. Non-GAAP financial measures continue to rank at the top of the most frequent comment letters issued by the SEC. As a...
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(SSAA146/25) Surgent’s AICPA Update
Designed for accounting and auditing practitioners at all levels in both public accounting and business and industry, this course provides an overview of recently issued AICPA auditing and attest standards that will be effective for December 31, 2022 audits and beyond.Next, the course will review ethics interpretations recently issued by the Professional Ethics Executive Committee...
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