| Dear Center Members: |
This alert contains instructions for registering to participate in the upcoming January EBPAQC webinars:
- EBPAQC Designated Partners 2019 Audit Planning (January 25th)
- Tax and Compliance Issues for Employee Benefit Plans Auditors (January 31st).
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Register for the Mandatory EBPAQC Designated Partners 2019 Audit Planning Live Forum Webinar
All EBPAQC member firms are required to have their audit partner designated with firm-wide responsibility for the quality of the firm's ERISA employee benefit audit practice (Designated Partner) participate in the annual EBPAQC Designated Partner Audit Planning webinar. To satisfy this annual membership requirement, firm Designated Partners may choose from one of these three options.
- Attend the January 25, 2019, live webinar to be held from 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 pm Eastern Time (free with no CPE or paid with CPE);
- Participate in one of the three rebroadcasts (paid with CPE) planned for April 22; June 6; and July 24 (all from 1:00- 2:30 p.m. ET); or
- View the archived webinar on the Center's website (free with no CPE).
Click here to register for the January 25 live webinar (Paid CPE credit or Free No-CPE credit options available)
Registration information for the rebroadcasts will be sent a few weeks before the webinar rebroadcasts.
The webinar provides valuable information to help you, as your firm's Designated Partner for ERISA audit quality, prepare your firm for the 2019 employee benefit plan audit season. Discussion topics for this webinar will include:
- DOL update
- Key accounting and auditing issues for EBP audits this year and on the near horizon
- EBP best practices and audit quality initiatives
- New Center tools and resources, including where to find them and how to use them
- Ask the experts Q & A session
Panelists for this webinar are Jim Haubrock, Clark, Schaefer, Hackett & Co; Jen Allen, Crowe LLP; Josie Hammond, RSM LLP; and Michael Auerbach, Chief Accountant, DOL EBSA.
The webinar qualifies for 120 minutes of CPE credits with paid registration. If you reserved time on your calendar for this web event by clicking on the "Outlook Calendar hold" option in the save-the-date announcement in EBPAQC EAlert #417, you will still need to register for the event by clicking on one of the links above.
The Center also is sponsoring a planning webinar designed for managers and supervisors on Friday, April 26, 2018. Registration information for that webinar will be included in a future Alert.
Register for the January 30th, Tax and Compliance Issues in Employee Benefit Plans Webinar
The Tax and Compliance Issues in Employee Benefit Plans webinar will be held on Wednesday, January 30, from 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time. This webinar will address discrimination testing and related audit implications.
Click here to register for the January 30 Tax and Compliance Issues for Employee Benefit Plans Auditors (CPE credit and no CPE options)
The panel of experts will discuss the following issues:
- Tax and compliance issues that may affect an EBP audit
- Management's evaluation of noncompliance with laws and regulations that may have a material effect on the plan financial statements
- Implications of noncompliance to various areas of the EBP audit
- Ask the expert Q&A session
Panelists for this webinar are EBPAQC Executive Committee members Jennifer Allen, Crowe LLP and Debbie Smith, Grant Thornton, and ERISA attorney Mark Swanson, Crowe LLP.
The webinar qualifies for 100 minutes (two hours) of CPE credits with paid registration.
Archive of EBPAQC Webinars
The webinar audio and slide presentations will be archived on the Center website under Past Events. No CPE is available for listening to the archived event. |
Sincerely,
AICPA Employee Benefit Plan Audit Quality Center |
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