FMN - January Session

When:  Jan 12, 2019 from 09:00 AM to 01:00 PM (PT)

Cost: $40 (check made out to "IMA" or cash); pay at event
Food: Full breakfast and lunch included in the cost
Dress Code: Casual

Here are the January 2019 topics:

Recruiting and Retaining Staff: Who's Eating Your Lunch?
Field of Study: Accounting
Accounting and finance specialists are increasingly called upon to exercise their judgment and skill over a wide range of pressing financial issues. Yet, in this time of a tight labor market, the demand for these professionals is at an all-time high. According to long-time commentator Jonathan Schiff, a professor of accounting at Fairleigh Dickinson University, many enterprises are now launching innovative techniques to recruit and retain their professional accounting staff.

Where Book Accounting Really Meets Tax Accounting
Field of Study: Accounting
An enterprise's profits and tax liability are presented to shareholders on their financial statements in a totally different way than they are reported to taxing authorities on annual returns. While the differences between book and tax accounting are no doubt confusing, Joe Howell, the co-founder of Workiva, observes that most corporate financial managers do not really understand what their tax colleagues actually do or appreciate the extent to which tax-related tasks are affected by corporate finance.

How the New Ethics Code Will Affect Your Standards
Field of Study: Regulatory Ethics
On the whole, accountants and financial managers do tend to be honest and do want to be ethical. But if they are professionals, and if they do try to act professionally, is it really necessary for them to have an ethics code? Fortunately, we assembled a group of three experts who are members of the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants to address the issue: Dr. Stavros Thomadakis of Greece; Caroline Lee of Singapore; and Ian McPhee of Australia.

Blockchain: Emerging Application for Digital Business
Field of Study: Management Services
Many financial managers complain that their existing systems are often inefficient, "siloed" and inconsistent. As a result, many enterprises are applauding and embracing the emergence of blockchain technology, with its ability to distribute and update ledgers widely and perfectly. Erik Dorr is vice president of research at The Hackett Group, where he is in an excellent position to tell us why blockchain is the emerging application platform for digital business.

 

Location

ConXtech, Inc. Headquarters
6701 Koll Center Pkwy
Suite 150
Pleasanton, CA 94566

Contact

Tricia Scalzo
(925) 400-3199
eastbaync@imachapter.org