GAAP Hot Topics: What You Need to Know
Author: Kelen Camehl
CPE Credit: |
16 hours for CPAs |
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.
This course is excluded from the following subscription programs:
Value Pass, Self-Study Package, Webinar Package, Self-Study & Webinar Package, and Firm Package.
Publication Date: May 2022
Topics Covered
- Accounting for Business Combinations
- Revenue Recognition
- Lease Transactions
- Goodwill Impairment
- Segment Reporting
- Accounting for Software
- Accounting Changes and Error Corrections
- Non-GAAP Financial Measures
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
Level
Basic
Instructional Method
Self-Study
NASBA Field of Study
Accounting (16 hours)
Program Prerequisites
None
Advance Preparation
None