February Financial Management Network

When:  Feb 10, 2018 from 09:00 AM to 01:00 PM (PT)
You are invited to attend a continuing education (CPE) event for accounting and finance professionals.  The program allows you to earn four hours (4.0) of CPE credit, keep up-to-date on accounting and finance issues and network with other professionals.

On the Program: 

Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: Impact on Businesses 

Field of Study: Taxes 

Following a year of congressional debate, President Trump signed a sweeping tax reform bill into law just before year-end that promises to transform the tax landscape. Known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the new law is the most expansive federal tax legislation since 1986. Edward Zollars, a partner in Thomas, Zollars & Lynch, Ltd. and a discussion leader for the Loscalzo Institute, reports on the law's provisions that will have a wide-ranging impact on businesses, including a deep reduction in the corporate tax rate.

Lessons Learned from the Leases Standard 

Field of Study: Accounting 

With a fast-approaching implementation date, the new standard on accounting for leases continues to cause havoc for financial statement preparers who, along with managers from treasury and investor relations, are working diligently to make a successful transition to the new guidance. Our cameras were on hand at the recent FEI Current Financial Reporting Issues conference, where a panel of top-level financial executives reviewed the lessons being learned from the ongoing effort to implement the new lease accounting standard.

Data Access: Your New Approach to Analysis and Research 

Field of Study: Accounting 

Financial professionals are increasingly aware that they cannot afford to conduct competitive analysis and disclosure research in the traditional ways. The new research environment is based on a combination of inexpensive technology, coupled with readily available electronic data from XBRL and other tagging sources. Pace University's Leslie Seidman and idaciti, Inc.'s Christine Tan show how new best practices are transforming the way you perform research and analysis. 

Strengthening Your Brand = Protecting Your Trademarks 

Field of Study: Management Services 

These days, your enterprise's competitive edge often relies on strengthening your brand, which probably also means protecting your intellectual property from infringement or from loss in value. According to trademark attorneys Jess Collen and Jeffrey Lindenbaum of Collen IP, understanding what intellectual property is - as well as how to protect it and how to enhance its value - have become survival prerequisites for corporate financial executives and their thriving organizations.

 

Location

Keller Williams Training Center
5994 W. Las Positas Blvd. Suite 111
Pleasanton, CA 94588

Contact

Tricia Scalzo
(925) 400-3199
tscalzo@bayworksrecruiting.com