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Recorded on: Aug. 11, 2010

MATTHEW SHELHORSE: OK, guys. We're a few minutes after four. We're going to go to a few minutes after five so we can get this hour in here. We're moving into the last section, so hopefully we have some smiles on our faces on that. And hopefully we've saved the best for last here. We're going to talk about hot topics and trends in accounting and finance. And we're happy to have Chad Bonn with us. Chad is a partner at our firm, a new partner at our ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2011

SPEAKER 1: Before we get started, just a little housekeeping. Please be sure to fill out your evaluation forms and turn those in at the back of the room on your way out. This is the second year that Deloitte has co-hosted the session with PLI, and we really do read and appreciate your comments and incorporate those into the agenda next year. And so for our last segment, we have a series of three topic here. The first will be an overview of the current ...

Recorded on: Oct. 12, 2011

MARC MILLER: We are at 4 o'clock, and this session will go till 5:00. And it's Hot Topics and Trends in Finance. And I think kind of the topics to pick there, really, in many ways, we had a general counsel share form at KPMG, with some of the most prominent GCs, a small select group. And they purposely wanted it that way. But really, the main topic of the hour and a half that they spent together, really as a share form, sitting around a circular ...

Recorded on: Mar. 25, 2013

LIZABETHANN R. EISEN: I think we'll go ahead and get started. As a reminder, my name is Liz Ann Eisen. To my right is Joe Kaufman, from Simpson Thatcher. And to his right is Debbie O'Connell, a new panelist. Debbie joins us from PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she is a partner in the SEC services group within PwC's National Professional Services Group. Debbie stands out as a seasoned expert in the technology industry that people rely on for insight ...

Recorded on: Apr. 19, 2012

ANDREW J. PITTS: Let's get started. This afternoon's first panel relates to financial disclosure and related accounting disclosures. I'm Andy Pitts from Cravath. You already met Joe Kaufman from Simpson Thatcher. And we're happy to introduce a new face and voice to this afternoon's session. In the center here is Debbie O'Connell. Debbie is a partner in the formally-called SEC Services Group. I think many of us more typically refer to that as "the ...

Recorded on: Mar. 25, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Securities Offerings 2013: A Public Offering: How It Is Done Recorded March, 2013 in New YorkImportant Financial Statements and Accounting Disclosures [01:33:49] Discussion of the critical financial information that forms the backbone of disclosures in securities offerings, including annual financial statements, interim financial statements, management’s discussion & analysis and pro formas Substantive financial ...

Recorded on: Mar. 28, 2012

CHAD RUCKER: As Ann just indicated, all of these statements are interconnected. So now we're going to discuss the income statement. And once again I want to just stress that, when analyzing all of these statements, it's important to look at the statements in the historical context of the company, look at it compared to the other comparable companies or similar companies in the industry. And also it's extremely, extremely important to make sure once ...

Recorded on: May. 21, 2012

SPEAKER: Good morning. How's everybody today? Ready to get started? We've got two of my very dearest friends presenting today. To my immediate right, T.C. Fleming. And to his right, John Molenda. I'm going to let them give you their credentials. They're going to be talking about cash flow. As a reminder, just real quickly, turn off your phones. And if you have questions, don't hesitate to ask us. That's what we're here for. Take care. T.C. FLEMING: ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2011

SPEAKER 1: OK. Welcome, everyone, back from lunch. Here to keep us going for most of the afternoon is Jason Downing and Dan Berner, returning from yesterday. As you recall, yesterday they gave us an introduction to basic accounting and the financial statement. And they left us with a little cliff hanger in terms of how to really read and understand and analyze financials. So today we're going to get more into how do you read financials. And I will ...

Recorded on: Aug. 11, 2010

SPEAKER 1: Good afternoon. We're going to get started being sensitive to the fact that it's Friday and I'm sure everybody's going to be anxious to finish on time later this afternoon. MATTHEW J. SHELHORSE: Welcome back everyone, I guess some folks will trickle in as time goes on, here. Just wanted to get the afternoon session kicked off, and we have a program on integrated performance management. We have Joe Salzano and Phil Treccagnoli here to talk ...

Recorded on: Oct. 12, 2011

MARC MILLER: OK. We're now back on, one o'clock. I think this morning was pretty helpful. Hopefully those of you found it informative. We talked about, obviously, some of the evaluation aspects, both in litigation context and also assets. Touching upon an intellectual property and some of the models and the options around conducting the evaluations. This afternoon we're going to move into some of the key performance indicators. How those are used. ...

Recorded on: Jun. 21, 2010

SPEAKER 1: All right, well, it looks like some people are still coming in from lunch, but we will go ahead and get started. I'm very excited for our next panel, which is Integrated Performance Management. And if you think back to our morning session yesterday, or the Introduction for Accounting and Financial Statements, James Webb said, accounting is really just telling a story, telling a story about a company's financial position or operating results. ...

Recorded on: Oct. 16, 2012

SPEAKER 1: Good afternoon. I would like to welcome everyone back to the afternoon session of the PLI MBA Pocket Program. And I'm pleased to introduce you to Jonathan Doherty. Jonathan will be presenting on Integrated Performance Management. This program will run from 1:00 to 2:30. And then, at 2:30, we'll have a networking break for 15 minutes. So Jonathan is a principal in KPMG's Transaction Services practice in New York City. He leads teams providing ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2012

KIRSTEN AUNAPA: OK. Welcome back. We're going to get started with our next topic, which is integrated performance management. I'm pleased to welcome back Dan Berner, a partner at Deloitte & Touche LLP, and Jason Downing, a principal at Deloitte Consulting. And they're going to kind of build on the basic introduction to financial statements that they gave you yesterday. And we'll get into a more practical read of how to actually read and analyze ...

Recorded on: Apr. 27, 2010

STACEY GREENBLATT: Good morning. My name is Stacey Greenblatt. I'm a program attorney with PLI, and I'd like to welcome you to Taxation of Financial Products and Transactions 2010. Before we get started, I just want to let you know that if you visit our bookstore during the break today, you can get 35% off on today's featured book: Financial Product Fundamentals. Now I'd like introduce the chair of today's program, Matthew Stevens. Matthew is ...

Recorded on: Oct. 2, 2012

Please note: There will be no CLE credit for this briefing! Taken from the briefing Law Firm Finance 101 - Understanding the Numbers that Matter recorded September, 2012. Law firm leaders operate with a financial view of the firm at the center of every decision.  To achieve your goals, you need a strong foundation in what makes - and keeps - your firm profitable.  Learn to speak the language your firm's decision makers understand. This ...

From the program: New Developments in Securitization 2012

Recorded on: Dec. 6, 2012

Taken from the Web Program New Developments in Securitization 2012 recorded November, 2012 in New York. Lecture Topics  [01:02:14] Securitization Accounting Developments: What's New?  [01:02:14] FAS 166/167 IFRS Implications of Regulatory Reform initiatives The purchase price of this segment includes the following article from the Course Handbook available online: FASB's Consolidation Exposure Draft. ...

Recorded on: Dec. 19, 2012

SETH PERLMAN: OK with that, I now have the very unique pleasure of taking a step back, and doing a little review of nonprofit governance basics. And the unique pleasure is that I get to introduce Professor Dana Brakman Reiser, a Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, where, for over 10 years, she's taught courses on non-profit law, social enterprise, corporations, property, trust and estates. Her recent scholarship, in other words, some of her ...

Recorded on: May. 21, 2012

JORGE A. AMADOR: Good morning. The next session is the Importance of the Notes to the Financial Statements, the Rest of the Story. First I'd like to introduce our two speakers for this session. First it's John Carney. He's a partner at Baker Hostetler, a former Securities Fraud Chief Assistant US Attorney. At the SEC, Senior Counsel and practicing CPA. Serves as co-leader of the firm's national White Collar Defense and Corporate Investigations group, ...

Recorded on: Feb. 10, 2012

ROBERT S. RISOLEO: OK. Welcome back. For the rest of the morning, we are going to talk about three very different perspectives on financial products. We'll talk about accounting. We'll talk about tax. And in between, we will talk about some litigations that have a mainly as a result of the financial crisis in the mortgage market, which as Stuart Litwin told us is still more moribund, as far as at least the securitization of mortgages goes in the wake ...

Recorded on: Oct. 12, 2011

MARK: We move to introduce our first speaker. Bradley McGrath, to my right, is a director in the Transaction and Restructuring Practice at KPMG. That, too, falls under advisory. Brad and I have had the occasion to work together. We had a project just recently where we were assisting outside counsel and general counsel's office with some derivative disclosure issues that they've had in their financial statements. So Brad has been with KPMG for about ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2012

ERIC B. SLOAN: Our first panel is on an overview of the relevant accounting frameworks and sources of information. And to handle this and to start things off, we're really fortunate to have Erik Moe. Erik is a Director with Deloitte. He focuses on financial accounting and reporting. He has an in-depth knowledge of a broad range of issues, including issues related to M&A, private equity, and IFRS, and he'll explain what that means. Erik? ERIK ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2011

ERIC SLOAN: --them as they come up. Our first discussion is going to focus on the overview of relevant accounting framework and sources of information, and to handle this we're very fortunate to have Erik Moe. Erik is a director in Deloitte's financial accounting and reporting services market offering, which provides multifunctional convergence and IFRS assessment and conversion services for our clients. He has more than 15 years of experience servicing ...

Recorded on: Oct. 16, 2012

BRADLEY MCGRATH: Good morning, everybody. Mark and I are excited to be here and to be kicking off this program. We're going to talk to you this morning about, as Dana said, just an overview of relevant financial reporting frameworks and the sources of information. So this is setting the framework for, I think, the rest of the segments that you're going to hear over the next couple of days. So a lot of this is somewhat basic. Some of you may be familiar ...

Recorded on: Jun. 21, 2010

KIRSTEN AUNAPU: Thank you, Eric. It's my pleasure to introduce one of my partners, Sam Doolittle, from the San Francisco office. Sam is a member of Deloitte's Financial Accounting and Reporting Services offering. And he's been instrumental in leading Deloitte's development of the International Financial Reporting Standards, or IFRS-- I'm so used to saying the acronym-- the IFRS assessment and conversion methodology. He also advises our strategic clients ...