Total Credits: 8 including 8 Accounting - Technical
This course is designed to assist CPAs who perform financial statement preparation, compilation, or review engagements. Our panelists will provide an in-depth examination of the SSARS and will provide practice tips that will assist you in performing profitable standard compliant engagements.
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Laura A. Billingsley, CPA, MS Acc, MEd, is an executive editor of PPC products for the Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters in Carrollton, Texas, where she is responsible for the technical content and annual update of several PPC products. She is a coauthor of PPC’s Guide to SSARS Preparation Engagements, PPC’s Guide to PCAOB Audits, PPC’s Guide to Religious Organizations, PPC’s Practice Aids for Audits of Oil and Gas Entities, and PPC’s Guide to Fraud Risk Assessments; and a contributing author to PPC’s Guide to Compilation and Review Engagements, PPC’s Guide to Managing an Accounting Practice, PPC’s Guide to Write-up Services, PPC’s Guide to GAAS, PPC’s Guide to Audits of Financial Institutions, PPC’s Guide to Dealerships, and The PPC Accounting and Auditing Update newsletter. She has been an observer at the AICPA Accounting and Review Services Committee meetings for more than 20 years. Before joining Thomson Reuters, she was a senior audit manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where she managed attest, business assurance, and consulting engagements for both small business and public company clients. Ms. Billingsley is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
James A. (Jim) Smith, CPA, CGMA, serves as Managing Director of Smith, Jackson, Boyer & Bovard, PLLC, a Dallas Certified Public Accounting firm. He practices extensively in tax compliance, planning and controversy representation for individuals and entrepreneurial businesses. He also is engaged in the preparation, compilation and review of financial statements; exit strategy planning for entrepreneurs; merger and acquisition planning and transactions; and forensic accounting and litigation services.
Mr. Smith served as Chair of the Texas Society of CPAs (TSCPA) for the 2007-2008 year, and as a member of its Professional Standards and Federal Tax Policy Committees since their inception. He served as a member of the AICPA Council 2007 through 2011 and from 2012 through 2015. He also served as an appointed member of two of the AICPA’s key standard setting committees: the Accounting and Review Services Committee from 2008 through 2011 and the Tax Practice Responsibilities Committee, 2014 to 2017.
Kelly J. Hunter, CPA is the Chief Operating Officer and shareholder in charge of the audit department of Fitts, Roberts, Kolkhorst & Co., P.C., a CPA firm in Houston, Texas and has been with the firm since 1999.
He is a current member of the AICPA’s Professional Ethics Executive Committee (PEEC) as well as a former member of the Accounting and Review Services Committee of the AICPA from 2014-2016 and a former member of the AICPA PCPS Technical Issues Committee from 2011-2014.
He is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Texas Society of CPAs (TXCPA) as well as the President-Elect of the Houston Chapter of the TXCPA. He is currently the chair of the CPE advisory board for the TXCPA.
He has authored and co-authored educational courses for the AICPA including the Annual Update and Practice Issues for Preparation, Compilation, and Review Engagements (CORU). He was also the primary author for the 2015 version of the AICPA Audit and Accounting Guide, “Preparation, Compilation and Review Engagements” which is the version that was completely revised by the issuance of SSARS No. 21, Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services: Clarification and Recodification.
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