GAAP Hot Topics – What You Need to Know

Course Overview
This course provides an overview of several of the key accounting and reporting topics within U.S. GAAP.  This includes a discussion of accounting for business combinations, revenue recognition principles, and leasing transactions.  This course also address topics such as goodwill impairment, segment reporting, how to account for software (both internal-use and for resale) as well as requirements related to accounting changes and error corrections.  
 

Learning Objectives:
•    Identify the definition of a business as it relates to a business combination transaction
•    List the steps involved in the acquisition method
•    Identify the acquisition date for a business combination
•    Recognize how to measure goodwill and gains from bargain purchases
•    Identify the measurement period for business combinations
•    Recognize financial statement disclosures related to business combinations
•    List the five steps involved in the new revenue recognition model
•    Recognize the considerations involved in identifying whether a contract exists
•    Identify the considerations involved with measuring the transaction price
•    Recognize the steps involved in allocating the transaction price to performance obligations
•    Determine whether an arrangement contains a lease
•    Identify considerations with respect to substitution rights
•    Identify the criteria for the new finance lease and short-term leases
•    Recognize the new recognition and measurement requirements for both lessees and lessors
•    Identify the requirements related to lease modifications
•    Identify presentation and disclosure requirements for both lessees and lessors
•    Identify the recognition requirements related to goodwill
•    Recognize overall characteristics of goodwill impairment testing
•    Differentiate between the qualitative and quantitative test of goodwill impairment
•    Identify key characteristics of the accounting alternative for goodwill
•    List the key disclosure requirements for goodwill and goodwill impairment losses
•    Identify key characteristics of operating segments
•    Recognize characteristics of the entity’s chief operating decision maker
•    Identify the quantitative thresholds used for reportable segments
•    Recognize disclosure requirements for reportable segments as well as entity-wide disclosures
•    Distinguish between software that is considered internal-use and not considered internal-use
•    Recognize how implementation costs are accounted for in various stages of software development
•    Identify when capitalization and amortization should commence
•    Recognize how implementation costs of hosting arrangements are accounted for differently
•    Recognize software that is within the scope of ASC Topic 985-20
•    Identify how software costs are recorded prior to and after establishing technological feasibility
•    Recognize how amortization is recorded for capitalized software costs
•    Identify general disclosure requirements related to software for resale
•    List the different types of accounting changes and how they affect an entity’s financial statements
•    Differentiate between the requirements for the different types of accounting changes
•    Identify the steps involved in the required assessment for a correction of an error
•    Differentiate between the iron curtain and rollover methods for quantifying a correction of an error
•    Recognize the different types of restatements required as a result of accounting changes
•    Differentiate between a GAAP financial measure and a non-GAAP financial measure
•    Recognize examples of different types of non-GAAP financial measures
•    Identify which SEC guidance is applicable to different types of non-GAAP financial measures
•    Recognize disclosures within the scope of Regulation G
•    Identify key requirements included within both Regulation G and Regulation S-K related to these measures

Revision Date: 11/8/24

Additional Contents : Complete, no additional material needed

Advance Preparation : None
Intended Participants : Any CPA looking to maintain or enhance their professional competence
Course Declaration : Participants must complete the final examination within one year of purchase. A minimum passing grade of 70% or better is required to receive CPE
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