SEC Accounting & Reporting Update on April 15-16, 2025 in San Francisco, United States

We are seeing an elevated level of accounting changes from US and international standard-setters. This conference will address the latest developments in key areas. Experts from the Big Four and regional firms will lead the discussion.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Understand the latest accounting changes in key areas

Recognize the timelines and key factors

Begin to assess the effects of these standards on your company or clients

REGISTRATION INFORMATION:

Cost: $545 (save $150 off the regular price of $695 if you register by March 14th).

This event will run 8:45-4:55p (Pacific Time) each day.

REGISTER NOW »

Register any one of three ways:

1. Register online using a credit card and click the orange button

2. Register by phone at (610) 789-3110

3. Email your contact info to be invoiced to [email protected]

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Agenda: DAY 1

8:45 11:00 SEC Update

SEC Rulemaking Agenda

Climate disclosures

Pay vs Performance

SEC Proposed Rules

SEC Staff Guidance

Comment Letter Trends

MD&A

ESG Update

11:00 11:15 Break

11:15 12:20 Financial Accounting Update

Recently Issued and newly proposed Accounting Standard Updates (ASU)

Key elements of proposed ASUs and how they may impact your company

12:20 1:00 Lunch Break

1:00 2:25 Financial Accounting Fraud Trends and Cases

Key SEC Enforcements Trends and Cases

How to manage or mitigate the risk of fraud

2:25 2:35 Break

2:35 3:35 Disclosure Issues

Latest Trends

Revenue Recognition Disclosures

Five Disclosure Areas

Interim Disclosures

Controls

3:35 3:45 Break

3:45 4:45 GenAI Use Cases in Accounting & Finance

Define key AI terms

Demystifying the different forms of AI

Practical use-cases today

Exciting use-cases for tomorrow

Strategies for approach AI adoption

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Agenda: DAY 2

8:45 10:15 SOX & Internal Controls Update

Risk assessment refresh

Significant transactions and events

SOX modernization and optimization

Information used in controls

Deficiencies & severity assessment

10:15 10:30 Break

10:30 11:50 SEC Enforcement Update

Key SEC Enforcements Trends and Cases

Investigate Process

Civil Enforcement

Potential SEC Remedies

Case Studies

11:50 12:30 Break

12:30 2:00 ESG Update

Application of regulations

Regulatory updates

The new climate accounting journey

The SOXification of ESGk

2:00 2:10 Break

2:10 3:30 Revenue Recognition: Evolving Issues

Contract modifications

Identifying performance obligations

Significant financing component

Contingent revenue

Performance obligations over time

Costs to obtain a contract

3:30 3:40 Break

3:40 4:45 Cybersecurity Update

New SEC Guidance on Information Security

Cautionary tales - examination of recent cases

What we are seeing: weak passwords, social media exposure, breach list exposure, linkedin scraping, lack of MFA, missing patches, insecure storage of credentials

Social engineering attacks

What you can do - active management