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New Orleans, Louisiana
November 5 - 6, 2009
This annual conference is a must for firms that use PPC products. The 2009 conference will focus heavily on using the PPC products in both the audit and tax arenas to produce the high-quality, efficient work product you strive for. Many of the sessions will address the various software and electronic solutions you have incorporated into your workflow. Sessions will include Checkpoint and all available modules of SMART Practice Aids for those with an audit focus and Tax E-tools, Quickfinder, and Checkpoint for those with a tax focus. Finally, a variety of technical sessions and updates on topics of interest to both tax and audit-focused professionals!
Click here to register online now!
Conference Objectives
This conference will enable participants to more effectively utilize the guidance and tools provided within various PPC products.
Who should attend?
Practitioners who have audit or tax practice responsibility.
Conference Speakers
Speakers for this event will include nationally recognized experts and users of PPC Products.
Date and Location
Nov. 5 - 6 | New Orleans, Louisiana
Pre-Conference Session Available!
November 4, 2009, 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Hilton New Orleans Riverside
504.561.0500
$199 per single/double room, subject to availability
Registration Fee
$769 (Main Conference)
$179 (Optional Pre-Conference on November 4th)
CPE Credit
16 Hours (Main Conference)
4 Hours (Pre-Conference)
Intermediate | Auditing, Accounting, Tax
To register
Click here to register online now or call 800.231.1860.
Session Topics
For a printable schedule detailing your choices for each conference session period, plus a printable order form, see this conference's pages in the PPC and AuditWatch Conferences catalog.
General Sessions:
Strategic Briefing: Current Developments in Accounting, Auditing and Taxation
What's hot in 2009 and beyond? This session provides a high level overview of the top issues affecting accounting, auditing and taxation for 2009 and beyond. Topics will cover major updates, including Yellow Book, US GAAP, PCAOB, IFRS and tax regulations. An emphasis will be placed on how PPC can help your firm deal with these issues.
Emerging Issues For CPA Firms
This session presents an overview of the emerging issues CPA firms will face over the next five years. Topics include employee retention, succession planning, increasing regulatory requirements and more.
PPC Update
This session recaps recent developments and looks ahead to preparing your firm for the future. This session also includes answers to some of the most common questions about effectively using PPC products; including best practices in applying the PPC audit methodology.
Panel Discussion
Speakers from this conference will answer questions and discuss using PPC products and other topics from the conference.
Concurrent Sessions:
What's New for PPC Tax Deskbooks
This session includes a discussion of updates and major changes to PPC Deskbooks.
Efficiencies in Using PPC's SMART Practice Aids: Risk Assessment and Internal Control (Part I & II)
By automating the risk assessment processes and evaluation of controls, these tools help firms to be more productive. This two-part session uses a case study approach to teach the best practices that will improve your efficiency and effectiveness in using these software tools.
PPC Methodology 101
Which forms do I have to use? Which forms can I modify? Which forms should I modify? When should I use the specified risk forms? This session answers these and other questions commonly asked by practitioners about how to use the PPC methodology. This session provides practical guidance on how to customize audits of small entities within the PPC approach.
Tax Update (Part I & II)
This two part session provides an in-depth discussion of the current year changes to the tax regulations.
Internal Controls Update & IT Controls Essentials
This first part of this session focuses on new guidance and trends in internal controls work; including guidance from COSO, the PCAOB's guidance for auditors of smaller public companies, and SAS 115. The discussion focuses on how this new guidance can help improve the quality and efficiency of your internal control work for a wide-range of clients; including small private companies. The second part of this addresses the key issues in evaluating IT controls including determining who should perform the work, evaluating which IT issues are important, choosing the right practice aids to document your procedures and responding to IT deficiencies.
Realizing Efficiencies Using PPC's Tax Workpapers and PPC's Practice Aids
This session discusses the most efficient way of using PPC's Workpapers and Practice Aids.
Top Tips for Managing Your Practice
This session discusses the top tips for managing your audit and tax practices in these turbulent times.
PPC Guide Update
This session will give you an overview of recent changes to various PPC Guides and discuss how these changes impact your engagements. Guides covered will includeNot-For-Profit,Single Audit, Local Government Non-Public Companies and Employee Benefit Plans.
Maximizing Efficiencies in Checkpoint
Are you only using 10% of Checkpoint's capabilities? This session can help you increase the benefits you receive from using Checkpoint. This session addresses audit and tax research, staying current, tailoring your home page, and finding the right products within Checkpoint for your client needs.
New! PPC's SMART Practice Aids: Disclosure
Let us guide you through our exciting new SMART Practice Aid which allows you to tailor the disclosure checklist and offers hundreds of sample disclosures at the click of a mouse! This new module can be used for nonpublic companies, local governments and nonprofit organizations.
Quality Control Standards Implementation: Lessons Learned and Common Issues
The new quality control standards have been here for a year. What have we learned? This session discusses the key quality control standards and lessons learned over the last year. This session also discusses how peer reviews have been - or will be - affected by the new standards.
Recent Frauds: The Perfect Storm
This session explores recent frauds, how they occurred and the lessons learned. The focus is on improving your ability to detect fraud.
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