Updating the Professional Accountant
40th Annual Seminar, December 7-11, 2020
Growing professionally for the clients you serve.
Continuing Professional Education (CPE) is required for CPAs to maintain their professional competence and provide quality professional services. Lipscomb University’s accredited College of Business presents its annual accounting and auditing CPE conference—Updating the Professional Accountant—designed to keep you up to date and informed with the latest industry regulations, developments and techniques. From fraud issues and accounting updates to tax planning and tax updates, you’ll hear first-hand from some of the area’s most noted business leaders throughout the week. And you’ll earn 40 hours of CPE credit by attending all five days. (Or eight hours for each day you attend)
Lipscomb’s Updating the Professional Accountant is one of the last opportunities you’ll have this year to fulfill your mandatory educational requirements. Reserve your seat today!
Registration opening soon.
CPE is required of all active licensees: 80 hours each two-year period with a minimum of 20 hours in each year.
Forty (40) hours (of the 80) must be completed in the areas of accounting and auditing, taxation, ethics or management advisory services (includes financial advising), with a minimum of 20 hours each year.
If you engage in the attest function (including compilations), you must complete at least 20 (of the 40) hours in accounting and auditing.
If you are engaged as an expert witness in the areas of accounting, attest, management advisory services, or tax, you should obtain at least 20 hours (of the 80) in the general subject area(s) relating to such testimony.
Licensees who renew in 2020 must complete two hours of state-specific ethics. This conference offers two hours of state-specific ethics.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 7
Auditing
- 8:30 - FINANCIAL REPORTING: THE CONTROL CENTER OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Todd Lilly, Partner, Formos Consulting
(Auditing)
- 10:20 - CASE STUDIES IN FRAUD
Kevin Monroe, Partner-in-Residence, Lipscomb University, College of Business
(Auditing)
- 12:50 - CYBERSECURITY CONTROLS
Jacob Arthur, Formos Consulting, and Lipscomb University
(Auditing)
- 2:40 - FRAUDS WORTH TALKING ABOUT
Dennis Dycus, CPA, CFE, CGFM
Consultant
(Auditing)
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8
Auditing, Accounting and Specialized Knowledge
- 8:30 - A CASH MANAGEMENT SUCCESS STORY
Brian Fox, Capital Confirmation
(Auditing)
- 10:20 - ACCOUNTING AND REPORTING STANDARDS UPDATE
Jeffrey McInturff, VP and Chief Accounting Officer
HCA
(Accounting)
- 12:50 - RETIREMENT PLANNING
Bob Sircy, Southwestern
(Specialized Knowledge)
- 2:40 - FINANCIAL REPORTING: PANDEMIC
Kris Bybee, Vice President and Controller, Tractor Supply Company
(Accounting)
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9
Accounting, Auditing and Specialized Knowledge
- 8:30 - CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS: A & A
Michael Brand, BMSS, LLC
(Accounting)
- 10:20 - CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS: A & A
Michael Brand, BMSS, LLC
(Auditing)
- 12:50 - CFO RESPONSIBILITIES
Steve Little, Principal, Disruption Lab and Chairman,
LifeFilez
(Specialized Knowledge)
- 2:40 - TSCPA / AICPA UPDATE
Doug Warren, Senior Partner and CEO
WarrenJackson CPAs
(Accounting)
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10
Ethics, Auditing, and Specialized Knowledge
- 8:30 - ETHICS – STATE SPECIFIC
Dr. Perry Moore, Professor
Lipscomb University College of Business
- 10:20 - DATA ANALYTICS UPDATE
Allison Leonard, Deloitte
(Auditing)
- 12:50 - POWER EXCEL UPDATE
Jeff Mankin, Jeff Jewell, Julio Rivas, Lipscomb University
(Specialized Knowledge)
- 2:40 - TECHNOLOGY UPDATE
Tim Agee, CISA, CGEIT, QSA
Partner, Formos Consulting
(Specialized Knowledge)
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11
Taxation
- 8:30 - ESTATE PLANNING / TENNESSEE TAXES
Michael Sontag, Stephen Jasper
Bass, Berry & Sims, PLC
- 10:20 - INDIVIDUAL TAX UPDATE
John Connors, JD, CPA, LLM
Tax Educators’ Network (TEN), Inc.
- 12:50 - INDIVIDUAL / BUSINESS TAX UPDATE
John Connors, JD, CPA, LLM
Tax Educators’ Network (TEN), Inc.
- 2:40 - BUSINESS TAX UPDATE
John Connors, JD, CPA, LLM
Tax Educators’ Network (TEN), Inc.
Cost: $115 per 4-hour session
Refund Policy and Contact Information: Before November 23, 2020, a $15 processing fee will be charged. No refund after November 23, 2020. In the event of inclement weather, the seminar will be held. For more information, please call 615-966-5795 (Dr. Perry Moore).
Southwestern Conference Center
2451 Atrium Way, Nashville, TN 37214
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NOTE: Lipscomb University desires its programs to be accessible to all people and reasonable accommodations will be made as necessary. If you have a disability that might require special services or assistance, please contact us not later than two weeks prior to the program.