National Construction Industry Conference

Whether you’re a CPA in public practice, CFO, controller, attorney, contractor or construction industry specialist, this must-attend event will offer instructive information and guidance that will prepare you and your staff for recent developments and upcoming changes in accounting, auditing, taxation, operations, marketing and financial management.

2009 AICPA National Construction Industry Conference
December 3-4, 2009

Tracks: A-ACOUNTING & AUDITING     T-TAXATION   
CFO/HB – CFO/HOMEBUILDER     O-OTHER 

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 – Pre-Conference Workshops (additional fee)

12:00pm - 5:15pm  Registration and Message Center Open

3:00pm - 6:00pm  Workshop Sessions (Choose One)

101 Fundamentals of Construction Accounting and Auditing
102 Fundamentals of Tax

Thursday, December 3, 2009 – DAY ONE

7:00am - 5:00pm  Registration and Message Center Open

7:00am - 8:00am  Continental Breakfast

7:50am - 8:00am  Welcome and Introductions

8:00am - 9:50pm  General Session

1 General Session

9:50am - 10:20am  Refreshment Break and Vendor Display

10:20am - 11:35am  Concurrent Sessions (Select One)

A  2   Auditing Contractors 
T  3   Look Back (repeated in session #7) 
CFO/HB  4   Internal Controls and Fraud (repeated in session #8)
O  5  Ten Things to Include in the Construction Contract

11:35am - 12:35pm  Lunch

12:35pm - 1:50pm   Concurrent Session (Select One)

A  6  Contractors Financial Statement from Surety Perspective
T   7 Look Back (repeat of session #3)
CFO/HB   8 Internal Controls and Fraud (repeat of session #4)
O   9 Accountants Role in Winning Claims

1:50pm - 2:00pm   Change Break

2:00pm - 3:15pm   Concurrent Sessions (Select One)

A  10 CPA Malpractice as it Relates to Contractors
T   11 Contractor Tax Update
CFO/HB   12 Contracting with the Federal Government and the Changing Environment (repeated in session #28)
O  13 Homebuilding – How to Survive and Thrive Until 2012 (repeated in session #27)

3:15pm - 3:45pm   Refreshment Break and Vendor Display

3:45pm - 4:35pm   Concurrent Sessions (select one)

A   14 Claim and Change Order Accounting
T    15 Tax Change in Method Accounting (Repeated in session #19)
CFO/HB   16 Technology in the Construction Industry
O   17 Surety Update
                       
4:35pm - 4:45pm  Change Break 

4:45pm - 5:35pm   Concurrent Sessions (Select One)

A  18 FAS 109/FIN48
T   19 Tax Changes in Method Accounting (repeat of session #15)
CFO/HB   20 Surety Panel
O   21 Cash Flow for Contractors

5:45pm - 6:45pm   Networking Reception & Vendor Display

Friday, December 5, 2008 – DAY TWO

7:00am - 4:50pm   Registration and Message Center Open

7:00am - 8:00am   Continental Breakfast

7:00am – 8:00am   Early Risers Sessions (select one)
                                   
22  Building & Maintaining a Construction                        
23  IFRS

8:05am - 9:20am    General Session

24 General Session
Hugh Rice, Chairman, FMI Corporation, Denver, CO

9:20am - 9:30am  Change Break

9:30am - 10:45am  Concurrent Sessions (Select One)

A  25 Audit Panel
T   26 Potential Tax Benefits Associated with Green/Energy Efficient Building
CFO/HB   27 Home Building: How to Survive and Thrive Until 2012 (repeated of session #13)
O   28 Contracting with the Federal Government and the Changing Environment (repeat of session #12)

10:45am - 11:15am  Refreshment Break

11:15am – 12:05am  Concurrent Sessions (Select One)

A   29 The Impact and Challenges of Adopting FAS 160 and Its Interrelationship with FIN46
T   30  IRS Update
CFO/HB  31 Understanding, Enhancing and Realizing Value in the Construction Industry
O  32 Takeoff or Nosedive? Economic Outlook for Construction Activity, Material and Labor

12:05am - 1:00pm  Lunch

1:00pm-2:15pm Concurrent Sessions (Select one)

A   33 Equipment and Indirect Cost Allocation (Allocating for Equipment from A to Z)  
T    34 Tax Panel
A   35 A&A in Tough Economic Times

2:15pm - 2:45pm   Refreshment Break & Vendor Display

2:45pm - 3:35pm   Concurrent Session (Select One)

A   36 Auditing Contracts – Risks and Strategies for Various Contract Types

T   37 Succession Planning (Estate Planning) (repeated in session #39)

CFO/HB   38 Banking Topic (repeated in session #40)

3:35pm - 3:45pm  Change Break

3:45pm - 4:35pm  Concurrent Sessions (Select one)

T   39 Succession Planning (Estate Planning) (repeated of session #37)
O  40  Banking Topic (repeat of session #38)
CFO/HB   41  CFO Panel

4:35pm   Program Adjourns

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