Non-GAAP Financial Measures - What You Need to Know

Course Description

A non-GAAP financial measure is a numerical measure of a registrant's historical or future financial performance, financial position, or cash flow.

What Drove the Increase in Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures?

U.S. GAAP can be hard and sometimes difficult to interpret even for seasoned professionals with years of experience. A problem with GAAP is its emphasis on producing a single number, net income, that is supposed to be useful to the company, as well as its investors and creditors. But sophisticated investors don’t care about reported net income. They want to know its components to be able to distinguish operating items from nonoperating items, items that are likely to be recurring and which are likely to be nonrecurring.

This Online CPE course provides an overview of non-GAAP financial measures with a particular emphasis on comments from the SEC, the FASB, and comment letter analysis from several of the Big 4 accounting firms.  Non-GAAP financial measures continue to rank at the top of the most frequent comment letters issued by the SEC.  As a result, it’s important to understand the guidance for these measures to ensure that an entity’s financial statements remain GAAP compliant and are not misleading.

This Accounting CPE course focuses on SEC Compliance & Disclosure Interpretations.  This course also provides illustrative examples of SEC Comment Letters, Prominent presentation, and Tax impacts.

This Online Continuing Education course includes following key topics:

• What is a Non-GAAP Financial Measure? 
• Why Do Regulators Care About Non-Financial Measures?
• What are NOT Non-GAAP Financial Measures?
• Where Do Non-GAAP Financial Measures Show Up?
• SEC Compliance & Disclosure Interpretations
• Regulation

Learning Objectives

• To differentiate between a GAAP financial measure and a non-GAAP financial measure
• To recognize examples of different types of non-GAAP financial measures
• To identify which SEC guidance is applicable to different types of non-GAAP financial measures
• To recognize disclosures within the scope of Regulation G
• To identify key requirements included within both Regulation G and Regulation S-K related to these measures

Recommended For

• This Online Accounting CPE course is recommended for CPAs, Accountant, Accounting Firm, Accounting Managers, Accounts Director, Bookkeepers & Accountants & Tax Preparers, Chief Accounting Officer, CPA – Midsize firm, Young CPA, Staff of Accounting Firm and other accounting professionals desiring to upgrade their knowledge regarding Non-GAAP Financial Measures.

Who Should Attend?

Webinar Qualifies For

• 2.5 CPE Credit of Financial Accounting for Certified Internal Auditors (CIA)
• 2.5 CPE Credit of Financial Reporting for Certified Management Accountants (CMA)
• 2.5 CPE Credit of Accounting for Certified Public Accountants (CPA-US)
• 2.5 CPE Credit of Financial accounting for Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA)
• 2.5 CPE Credit of Financial accounting for Certified Business Appraiser/Master Certified Business Appraiser (CBA/MCBA)
• 2.5 CE Credit for Certified Fiduciary & Investment Risk Specialist (CFIRS)
• 2.5 CE Credit for Certified Wealth Strategist (CWS)
• 2.5 CPD Credit of Financial Reporting for Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV)
• 2.5 CPD Credit of Financial Reporting for Certified Financial Forensics (CFF)
• 2.5 CPE Credit of Accounting for Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)
• 2.5 CPE Credit for Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM)
• 2.5 CPE Credit for Internal Audit Practitioner (IAP)
• 2.5 CPE Credit for Qualification in Internal Audit Leadership (QIAL)
• 2.5 PL Credit for Certificate In Investment Performance Measurement (CIPM)
• 2.5 CRE Credit for Certified Corporate FP&A Professional (FPAC)
• 2.5 PL Credit for Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
• 2.5 General Credit for Accountant/Bookeeper

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