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SMALL FIRM FORUM NEW!
October 24, 2011 Las Vegas, NV | Caesars Palace hotel information

Small CPA firms deal with unique issues and challenges; leveraging their flexibility and personal attention while dealing with resource constraints. This conference is focused on topics in the areas of practice management, consulting, audit, and tax, with an emphasis on productivity and a forum for sharing ideas.

GENERAL SESSIONS
Leveraging the Small Firm Advantage
From client service to staff opportunities, small firms are simply different than large firms. This session is focused on helping you identify, match, and sell these advantages to clients, recruits, and others.

Expanding Your Reach and Resources
The professional world is more connected than ever, so small doesn't have to mean limited. In this session, we explore opportunities and strategies to overcome resource constraints and expand the range of services and opportunities you offer.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Productivity Series: Sessions focused on helping you do your job better and more efficiently.

• Performing More Efficient Reviews
  This session provides a review of key requirements for performing financial statement reviews; including a comparison of compilation, review and audit requirements. Efficiency opportunities are identified and illustrated through a review of typical review procedures from actual review engagements.
• Efficient Small Company Audits: Fitting the PPC Forms to Your Clients
  This session explores the specific challenges auditors face when auditing small clients and how to address them. Discussion topics include streamlining the risk assessment and internal controls processes, balancing materiality and client competency, and using forms and practice aids more efficiently.
• Tax Productivity Tips and Tools
  How do you create capacity while getting it done and getting it right? Join us for a discussion of how to improve your tax practice productivity through a focus on engagement management, client management, workflow, and tools.

Consulting Series: Sessions focused on helping you improve the value-added services you provide.

• Top Consulting Issues for 2011 and Beyond
  Our experts will discuss the issues that you should be talking to your clients about. The session includes an overview of the issues, the typical needs of clients, and suggestions for turning the issue into a product.
• Dealing with the IRS
  Whether it's helping a client deal with a problem or navigating your own way through the increasing oversight of tax preparers, understanding the IRS is critical. This session presents tips and strategies for dealing with the IRS as a preparer and professional advisor.
• Accounting and Write-Up Services: Tips and Pitfalls
  Is your accounting and write-up work a professional service line or something you give away as part of something else? In this session, we review the requirements and standards related to accounting and write-up services and discuss the business, technical, and ethical pitfalls you need to avoid.

Update Series: Sessions focused on keeping you up-do-date with the standards and rules most likely to affect your clients and your practice.

• Small Business Accounting and Auditing Update
  Accounting and auditing standards are changing as fast as ever. This session will filter through all the technical "noise" and present the issues and changes most likely to affect practitioners servicing small and medium size, non-public companies.
• Small Business Tax Update
  In this session, our tax experts present the tax law changes and issues affecting your small business clients. Highlights will include a discussion of the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 and other significant developments.
• Individual Tax Update
  Stay up to date on the tax law changes affecting individuals. Topics will include the 2010 Tax Relief Act and other developments.

Practice Management Series: Sessions focused on helping you run your business better.

• Where's the Help? Recruiting, Retention and Non-Traditional Staffing
  CPA firms are always dealing with the challenge of getting the right help at the right time. This session is focused on helping small firms to identify the right fit in recruiting and hiring staff, work with existing staff to meet their goals and improve retention, and explore other staffing options.
• Revenue and Cost Management
  This session is conducted as a facilitated group discussion, with learning coming from presenter tips and group best-practice sharing. Topics include growth and market-niche strategies, billing and collecting, and cost management.
• Planning for the Future: Strategies for Growth and Succession
  What will you be doing in ten years? Topics in this session address key elements to consider as part of your future plan and strategy. Whether you're being groomed to take over or planning for retirement, your future depends on where the firm is positioned today and what it will look like tomorrow.

SPEAKERS


Pete Bieghler, CPA
AuditWatch Instructor Consultant, Thomson Reuters
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Robert "Chris" Province, CPA
TaxWatch Instructor
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And other nationally
recognized experts.

HOTEL INFORMATION
Caesars Palace
Las Vegas, Nevada
866.227.5944
$159 per single/double room. Use group code SCTHO1 for special price when you call to reserve, or CLICK HERE to reserve rooms online. Hotel Reservation Cut-Off: Sept 16

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