Accounting and Financial Reporting for COVID-19 and the CARES Act |
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Course Description: |
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The objective of this course is to review the impact that COVID-19 has on accounting and financial reporting, and the changes made by the 2020 CARES Act, including accounting for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and forgiveness.
Topics include: Disclosures of risks and uncertainties; going-concern reporting and disclosure issues; impairment issues related to goodwill and other long-lived assets; accounting for variable consideration revenue and onerous contracts; dealing with inventory costs and stock market investment losses; collectability of trade receivables; exit and termination benefit obligations; contingencies, and accounting and auditing engagement matters. With respect to the CARES Act, the course discusses the accounting for PPP loansand forgiveness, accounting for tax changes made by the CARES Act, and more
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Learning Objectives:
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Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Recognize some types of concentrations that might require disclosure under the risk and uncertainty rules
- Identify the definition of near term
- Recall the frequency in which an entity should test goodwill for impairment
- Recognize the formula for testing goodwill impairment
- Recognize some exit and disposal costs
- Recall how to classify business interruption insurance proceeds on the financial statements
- Identify the benchmark used to determine going concern
- Recognize how to report on going concern in an audit
- Identify a method that can be used to measure variable consideration revenue
- Recognize an example of a construction-type contract
- Identify an advantage of remote auditing
- Recognize how a company should present CARES Act loan forgiveness on its financial statements
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Course Number: |
SF2005 |
NASBA Field of Study: |
Accounting |
Level: |
Overview |
Author/Instructor: |
Steven C. Fustolo |
Publication Date: |
November 2021 |
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CPE Credits: |
4 |
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Program Prerequisites: |
General understanding of accounting, financial reporting, auditing and compilation and review standard |
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Advanced Preparation: |
None |
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