Due to COVID-19 this will be a Virtual Meeting
Continuing Professional Education: 4.0 Hour CPE
One of the most valuable products offered by the Institute of Management Accountants. The FMN (Financial Management Network) is a live DVD training program introducing and explaining up-to-the-minute accounting and finance issues. By viewing the DVD and participating in the group discussion you will earn four hours of CPE credit.
Overall, the program allows you to keep current with the changes and impacts in many facets of the Accounting and Finance industry.
January 2021 topics:
Human Capital, Management Oversight & Disclosure – Is Your Board Ready?
Field of Study: Business Law
In August 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued its long-awaited amendments to Regulation S-K, the regulation which contains the detailed disclosure requirements, including a new requirement that public companies need to disclose information about “human capital resources”. Boards often focus on key areas of a business and how to drive it forward, but have not been tasked with direct oversight of human capital management, as it has been historically viewed as management’s responsibility. Gillian Emmett Moldowan, partner in the Compensation, Governance and ERISA group at Shearman & Sterling, discusses human capital management and how it fits into the broader framework of ESG.
Ethics & Corporate Misconduct – The Thin Red Line
Field of Study: Behavioral Ethics
Corporate misconduct and corruption have been going on for decades, causing significant damage that keeps growing. And who pays the price? Investors, consumers, employees, but also communities and even the corporations themselves. So why do companies misbehave? The culture within an organization, the corporate environment can be one of the reasons, but is it the company, the individuals that run it or the economic system itself that promotes unethical behavior? Marc Epstein, former professor at Harvard, Stanford and Rice Universities and Kirk Hanson, former professor at Santa Clara and Stanford Universities, are addressing the reasons why, in their view, companies, their executives and their employees misbehave.
SSARS No. 25 – What You Need to Know
Field of Study: Accounting
In February 2020, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Accounting and Review Services Committee (ARSC) issued Statement on Standards for Accounting and Review Services (SSARS) No. 25, Materiality in a Review of Financial Statements and Adverse Conclusions. SSARS No. 25 is the culmination of their goal of converging with international standards for review engagements (ISRE) 2400. With us today is Michael Glynn, CPA, CGMA, senior manager, Audit and Attest Standards and staff liaison for ARSC. He provides an overview of the new standard and why business executives should consider early implementation.
How to Say More with Less
Field of Study: Communications & Marketing
There are many misconceptions about how to speak effectively to an audience and get your point across. Public speaking was the least favorite class in college for most of us; something we may have thought at the time, let’s get through it and we won’t have to do it ever again. Well… if we only knew at the time that we would be doing this every day of our lives. Public speaking is a vital component of executive presence. Diane DiResta, CEO of DiResta Communications Inc., is an executive coach and she discusses ways executives can be influential public speakers. She shares her experiences as to the biggest communication challenges financial executives face, as according to Diane, “to be a leader with influence you have to be a knockout presenter. And while gifted speakers are born, effective speakers are made.”
Time: 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
Virtual from your home:
You need to receive a login from Kaplan (our video vendor) by email to access the virtual classroom.
Note: You will be asked to validate that you are online automatically throughout the sessions to make sure you are NSBA compliant.
Cost: $40.00 (Payment thru PayPal: www.paypal.me/IMA112)
Registration: Tricia Scalzo