Date and Time: Tuesday, June 9, 2026 – 8:30 am – 4:00 pm EST
Description: This program will provide a refreshing update on current accounting and auditing trends focusing on the tax practitioner.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify current accounting trends that impact the tax practitioner
- Apply planning strategies for your clients
Major Subjects:
- Keeping Up with the FASB – This course focuses on recent FASB updates with an emphasis on implications for private entities. We will also explore significant elements of the FASB’s technical agenda.
- Viewing A&A Through the Eyes of a Tax Practitioner – This session offers insight for tax practitioners, devoting significant attention to extracting utility from financial statements to support decision needs of both external financial statement users and internal stakeholders. We explore best practices for cross-functional support within firms that perform tax, accounting solutions, financial statement, and consulting services and highlight similarities and differences between U.S. GAAP and tax-basis accounting.
- Professional Skepticism for the Public Accountant – Accountants are expected to demonstrate a questioning mindset. While such professional skepticism is an obvious requirement for assurance engagements, it is applicable elsewhere in the practice of public accounting. In fact, a skeptical mindset offers benefits to both public accountants and those who work in industry. This course provides specific examples of professional skepticism while suggesting best practices.
- Exploring Internal Controls That Could Have Prevented Frauds – This course examines actual fraud circumstances through the lens of potential prevention. We will examine how selected frauds were accomplished and consider what internal controls may have prevented fraudsters’ ability to accomplish their nefarious acts.
- Ethical Intelligence for Artificial Intelligence – Organizations and individuals enticed by the siren song of artificial intelligence cannot ignore ethical considerations. Professionals must consider accuracy of information, data privacy, independence, source citations, organizational policies, security, data retention, and other ethical matters. This course discusses ethical issues associated with the utilization of AI in a professional setting and provides suggested best practices.
Who should attend: Practitioners seeking an update on current accounting, auditing and ethical trends in the industry.
Program Level: Basic
Sponsored by: Federal Tax Workshops, Inc.
Instructors: Dr. Chris Harper, CPA, MBA
CPE Credit: 8 hours
Field of Study: Accounting/Auditing (6 hours) and Ethics (2 hours)
Prerequisites: None
Advanced Preparation: None
Dr. Christopher Harper, CPA, MBA
Chris is a CPA with the heart of a teacher. He is an associate professor of accounting with Grand Valley State University’s Seidman College of Business. He also serves as a senior manager and director of education for Hungerford CPAs + Advisors. Chris has been serving tax and accounting needs of closely held business and individuals since 1998.
Course materials are only available to students enrolled in the course.