Walter Haig — Sleeping Dogs & the Berkman Trial

Many of us enjoyed several Accounting CPE classes at ASCPA last week presented by Walter Haig.  Personally I go out of my way to take his courses.  He referenced his expert witness role in the Berkman fraud trial.
Sleeping dogs and the Berkman trialThursday, May 15, 2008The OregonianH e never lied to me. That’s what I [...]

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The American Spectator : Demand and Supply

Here is a terrific article that Dr. Stephen Happel, the keynote speaker at the recent ASCPA Financial Planning Conference, referenced.  Dr. Happel is a well known economist at ASU.  If you were not at the conference, you missed a great presentation and great day filled with timely presentations.  The conference chairman John Chichester and his [...]

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FASB Webcast—A Proposed Approach for the Recognition of Revenue

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) recently issued a discussion paper titled, Preliminary Views on Revenue Recognition in Contracts with Customers and the FASB is hosting a webcast to discuss this paper and its implications. The webcast is scheduled for Friday, March 27, 2009, and will include an overview of the FASB and IASB’s positions [...]

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Arizona Tax Update

Tuesday evening I had the privilege of attending a CPE class titled “State Tax Update” which was presented by Jeffrey Williams and Krista Howard, both of whom are Senior Managers with Deloitte Tax LLP. Some of the highlights of the class included newly enacted legislation: 

HB 2106 which is effective January 1, 2009 and amends the [...]

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Business Valuation Roundtable

Today I had the opportunity to attend the Business Valuation Roundtable titled “Use of Transaction Databases – The Valuator’s Titanic”. The roundtable was held at the Arizona Society of CPA’s main office in Phoenix and we had 21 members in attendance. It was a 2 hour discussion on business valuation issues and the Society served [...]

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Arizona’s Mandatory CPE Class on Ethics

Yesterday I had the opportunity to take another CPE class at the Arizona Society of CPA’s Offices. As always the staff was extremely friendly and helpful and registration went smoothly. This was a 4 hour CPE class titled “Ethics Standards Update and Review for Arizona CPA’s in Public Practice – 2008 Edition”. We had a [...]

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Tax & E-File Update

Today I had the opportunity to attend one of the ASCPA’s luncheon CPE sessions which is in my belief one of the best priced benefits the Society has, we received lunch and an hour of CPE credit for only $25. We had a full room and attendees ranged in experience from a young lady who just [...]

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Frank W. Abagnale to speak at the 2009 ACFEI Conference

I received this e-mail from the ACFEI today and believe others in the ASCPA would be interested.

Frank Abagnale to Speak at 2009 National Conference!
We are excited to announce Frank W. Abagnale will be a featured speaker at the 2009 National Conference. Mr. Abagnale is one of the world’s most respected authorities on forgery, embezzlement, and [...]

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Auditing for Internal Fraud

The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) is conducting a course on Auditing for Internal Fraud in Phoenix on January 22-23, 2009. This is a basic level course with up to 16 hours of CPE credit. You can click here for more details on this course, and click here for a course outline.

 
Robert K Minniti, [...]

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Arizona’s Anti-Deficiency Law

I had the opportunity recently to attend a real estate CPE class on Arizona Foreclosure Law conducted by Diane Drain. One of the interesting topics of discussion during the class was Arizona’s anti-deficiency law. With the large number of foreclosures in Arizona caused by the current financial crises this information could be relevant to a [...]

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