Internal Control & CPA Focused Training Seminars

Corporate Compliance Seminars presents two families of professional continuing education (CPE) seminars:

Internal Control & CPA Focused Training Seminars

Internal Auditor Focused Training Seminars

List of Internal Control & CPA Focused Training Seminars

This page summaries the Internal Control & CPA Focused Training Seminars which will be presented during 2010 in various cities throughout the United States. This family of seminars includes:

Best Practices - Internal Control and Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Seminar

Best Practices - IT General Controls Seminar

Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance for the External Auditor Seminar

Business Improvement - Restructuring & Turnaround

U.S. GAAP to IFRS Conversion –Preparing for the Change Seminar

Leveraging SOX Compliance Using SEC Management Guidance and Auditing Standard 5 Workshop

NAIC Model Audit Rule Compliance Workshop

OMB Circular A-123 and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Seminar

Managing Business Ethics Seminar

These programs are also available for presentation at your site tailored to your specific training needs. See the page concerning Custom Seminars for further details.

Our seminars provide CPE For CPAs, CFEs, CIAs, CISAs, auditors and others with effective and engaging training.

Prices for individual attendance are detailed on the seminar specific web pages or via the Buy Now Buttons on the payment page. Call us for special offers and group pricing.

Best Practices - Internal Control and Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Seminar

Classroom training on the best practices for internal control, including streamlined SOX compliance and the latest guidance from the SEC, PCAOB and COSO.

This one-day seminar is designed to provide a complete overview of an effective program for the creation of internal control over financial reporting (ICFR). Be trained on how an organization can create and maintain an internal control framework to comply with SOX or other similar regulations.

Hundreds of our seminar attendees have taken a top-down risk based approach to compliance which has produced results for management and been successfully assessed by their external auditors. Learn what the "Best Practices" concerning the use of COSO Princples to define ICFR. (8 Hours CPE)

Business Improvement - Restructuring & Turnaround

Full day of organized advice gathered from very experienced business turnaround consultants. This consulting session presents the factors you need to consider during the business turnaround process.

This one-day presentation is designed to provide an overview of an effective approach to leaving no stone un-turned during the execution of a business turnaround. Learn what turnaround consultants have devised and executed in corporate renewal programs.

While each business turnaround is unique there are established stages that each successful turnaround must go through. Our seminar attendees will hear a composite program that can be used to address management changes, situation analysis, action plan, business restructuring and a return to normalcy. Learn the "Best Practices" used in effective business turnarounds. (8 Hours CPE)

Best Practices - Information Technology Controls Seminar

Classroom training on the best practices for Information Technology (IT) governance, management, security, general controls and auditing.

This popular one-day seminar is designed to provide an understanding of an effective program for the creation of a system of internal control within Information Technology (IT) and its assessment. Be trained on how your organization can develop and maintain an effective IT internal control framework to comply with SOX or other similar regulations.

Our attendees learn that a top-down, risk based approach to IT compliance can produce better results for their companies by streamlining their operations, providing more accurate, timely and reliable information, avoiding litigation and reducing their IT costs. Learn the "Best Practices" of IT from the methodologies of Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT), IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and IT departments around the globe. Implement and update your IT SOX compliance and IT auditing programs. This seminar is for IT and non-IT professionals, auditors and management. (8 Hours CPE).

Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance for the External Auditor Seminar

Classroom training on the best practices for external auditors who have to comply with the PCAOB Auditing Standards.

This new one-day seminar is designed to provide the PCAOB registered auditing firm partners and professionals with an understanding of requirements within Auditing Standard 5. It moves you away from the audit programs established under Auditing Standard 2 to establishing audit activities that take the integrated audit approach.

Attendees learn the planning approach which will lead to a top-down, risk based integrated audit. Smaller public companies are now required to comply with the management assertion requirement of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Now, these companies will be subject to the auditor attestation requirement of Section 404 for their annual reports filed for fiscal years ended on or after December 15, 2009. This seminar is for audit partners and audit professionals who will be conducting these SOX audits. (8 Hours CPE).

U.S. GAAP to IFRS Conversion – Preparing for the Change Seminar

The SEC's Roadmap for the Potential Use of Financial Statements Prepared in Accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) by U.S. Issuers was published in the Federal Register on November 21, 2008.

The SEC is proposing a lengthy conversion period to allow companies to absorb the standards and avoid the difficulties experienced from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance. Other Federal Regulars are now working on their conversion plans to regulations based on financial reporting under IFRS.

The one-day seminar will provide guidance and training to prepare for a smooth transition to IFRS. Changing to IFRS is not a revolution but a global standardization to move from a rules-based financial reporting standard to one that is principles-based. (6 Hours CPE)

Leveraging SOX Compliance Workshop

Learn and create prototype documents necessary for a public company to work with their external auditor to comply with the SEC regulations and PCAOB's Audit Standard 5.

This timely, three-day workshop is designed for the non-accelerated filer that will have to fully comply with Section 404 in 2010. It will leverage the efforts of compliance managers, controllers, CFO’s and others who have to create the SOX documentation. This workshop will allow for the issuer compliance with Section 404 of SOX using the SEC Management Guidance. We will walk through how to comply using the guidance from COSO, SEC and PCAOB without breaking your budget. We have many non-profit and other organizations using this workshop to start a internal control program. (24 Hours CPE)