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Current Issues in Accounting

Be Aware; Update Your Skills to Prepare

December 16, 2009

 Course Description

This seminar will expose participants to the changes occurring in financial reporting. Specific areas being covered are as follows:

  • IFRS: Explores the differences between IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) and US GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles), and their relevance to business performance. Topics include a summary and overview of the major differences between IFRS and FAS related to transactions and financial statement items.
  • ASC (Accounting Standards Codification):  Participants will learn about the new organization system of GAAP, which is by topic rather than chronological FAS (Financial Accounting Standard) numbers.
  • XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language): Participants will receive a conceptual overview of XBRL, XML (Extensible Markup Language) and the SEC's new reporting requirements and database.

 

Who Should Attend

Accounting professionals and finance managers who need to be aware of the recent changes impacting the accounting profession.

 

Date and Schedule

Wednesday, December 16, 2009 from 8:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., with a continental breakfast served at 7:30 a.m.

 

Location and Parking

Schlegel Hall, University of Rochester River Campus

Directions: http://www.rochester.edu/maps/directions.html

Parking pass and parking lot information are forthcoming.

Map: http://www.rochester.edu/parking/assets/pdf/ParkingMap2010r.pdf

 

Price

$325.00    Individual

$275.00    University of Rochester alumni

Group pricing is available. Please contact the Executive Programs office at (585) 275-3439 or execed@simon.rochester.edu.

CPE Credits for CPAs

Four CPE credits hours are available for this seminar. CPAs should provide their CPA license in the Comments section of the registration form.

 

Instructors  

 

 

Heidi Tribunella

Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting

Biography

Professor Tribunella has served as an auditor for two national firms, Deloitte & Touche and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. At those firms, she served clients in the health care industry as well as midsized firms. Tribunella, also a New York State Certified Public Accountant, spent over five years in industry as a manager of financial reporting for two different health care companies. Prior to joining the Simon School faculty, she taught a variety of business and accounting courses at various colleges, most recently at Keuka College.

 

Tribunella has an interest in accounting and auditing research and has published articles with other professors in the Journal of Business and Economics Research, the Journal of College Teaching and Learning, The Review of Business Information Systems, The CPA Journal, and the Accounting Information Systems Educator Journal.

 

Tribunella has received the Oneida County Comptroller’s Office Accounting Award for academic achievement in the M.S. accountancy program at the SUNY Institute of Technology. She is listed in the 2002 edition of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers and received a Best Paper Award at the International Business and Economics Research Conference and the Accounting Information Systems Educators’ Conference.

B.S., Accounting, John Wiley Jones School of Business, State University of New York at Geneseo

M.S., Accountancy, State University of New York Institute of Technology

 

 

 

Thomas Tribunella

Lecturer in Accounting

Biography

Professor Tribunella‘s teaching and research interests are in the fields of Accounting and Information Systems. He has published papers related to markup languages such as XML and XBRL, open source accounting systems, and technology’s effect on productivity. He has also won four best paper awards at academic conferences. Examples of his publications appear in the following outlets among others: Journal of Information Systems, The CPA Journal, The Review of Business Information Systems, Journal of Global Information Management, and Journal of Business and Economics Research.

Tribunella worked in industry as an auditor and accountant before beginning a career in academia. He has been on the faculty at the Rochester Institute of Technology, SUNY Institute of Technology, SUNY Oswego, and SUNY Geneseo. He is currently teaching Accounting Information Systems, Management Information Systems, Auditing and Information Systems, and Cost Accounting.

Ph.D., Information Science, State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany

M.B.A., Accounting, Rochester Institute of Technology

B.B.A., Accounting, Niagara UniversityCertified Public Accountant, New York State license