[194] MTSU Accounting CPE Day is Dec. 8

Today’s date: Dec. 1, 2011

News and Media Relations contacts: Randy Weiler, 615-898-5616 or Randy.Weiler@mtsu.edu
or Tom Tozer, 615-898-2919 or Thomas.Tozer@mtsu.edu
MTSU Department of Accounting contact: 615-898-5306


MTSU Accounting Continuing Professional Education Day is Dec. 8

MURFREESBORO — The 3rd annual Department of Accounting Continuing Professional Education Day at MTSU will be held Thursday, Dec. 8, from 7:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., in the Business and Aerospace Building’s State Farm Lecture Hall.

Seminars during the conference include presentations on accounting and financial reporting, auditing, taxation and ethics presented by Department of Accounting faculty. Participants can earn up to eight hours of CPE credit. The cost is $150, which includes all seminars, materials, and lunch.

The sessions include:

• “Financial Accounting Standards Board Update,” Dr. Paula Thomas, MTSU accounting professor;

• “Tennessee Ethics,” Mark Crocker, executive director of the Tennessee Board of Accountancy in Nashville;

• “How ‘Legal Thinking’ Can Aid the Auditor,” Dr. Sandy Benson, assistant professor of business law;

• “Tax Update and Tax Planning,” Dr. Tim Koski, accounting professor;

• “General Ethics,” Stan Clark, accounting associate professor;

• “Government Accounting Standards Board Update,” Dr. G. Robert “Smitty” Smith Jr., interim chair of the Department of Accounting;

• “International Financial Reporting Standards,” Dr. Jeannie Harrington, associate professor of accounting;
• “Audit Update,” Bill Mooningham, retired partner from Ernst & Young, MTSU alumnus and accounting instructor;

• “Leveraging Technology in the Modern Accounting Firm,” Eric Clements, Randall Matlock & Associates P.C. in Murfreesboro; and

• “Detecting Deception,” Daniel Porter, investigative auditor, Tennessee Department of State Audit in Nashville.

To register or get more information, visit the Department of Accounting web site at http://www.mtsu.edu/accounting or call 615-898-5306.

Also, the 21st annual Department of Accounting Alumni CPE Day at MTSU will held on Thursday, April 26, 2012.

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