Each year, the MS Society of CPA’s offers a one day conference on nonprofit accounting topics. This conference is designed to provide the latest information to your bookkeeper, accountant or the executive who wants to learn more about accounting, tax issues and governance.
This year’s conference will be on Friday, November 2, at the JSU e-Center in Jackson. The society will bring in four nationally recognized experts in addition to local expertise. The cost is $95, including lunch.
This
year’s conference keynote speaker will be Mississippi Secretary of State
Delbert Hosemann. Secretary Hosemann will discuss recent and planned
legislation and enforcement actions impacting Mississippi’s charitable
organizations. There will also be a presentation from the Center for Nonprofits
on current issues.
Joe
Irvine, Development and Tax Counsel for Ohio State University will present
sessions on Charitable Contributions including compliance issues and financial
presentation. In addition, he will offer a session on Unrelated Business
Income. Joe serves as the tax committee chairman for the AICPA’s Not-for
Profit Conference. Joe has a wealth of experience with these topics.
There
will be presentations from the IRS and from field auditors with the Secretary
of State’s office. The head of the IRS National Office on Exempt Organization
Audits will speak about initiatives in the upcoming year. These sessions will
allow participants to meet the auditors who are responsible for conducting
audits in Mississippi, learn about the audit processes, and get answers to any
questions they may have. They will also offer a presentation from the MS Center
for Nonprofits on the Excellence in Action designation.
In
the nonprofit tax area, there will be an update session presenting key aspects
of the Form 990 and its 16 schedules. It will include
highlights of recent changes to the Form 990 and address pertinent provisions
of the 2012 IRS Exempt Organization work plan.
Fraud
in nonprofits will be presented by Mr. Jim Stickley. Mr. Stickley has
taken over 20 years of real-life fraud and cyber security experiences in the
corporate world and turned them into entertaining and informative topics for
security-related conferences, seminars and forums. He has published works
covering topics that range from basic identity theft and protection to national
cyber terrorism. He will present two informative sessions that you won’t
want to miss.
Again
this year, the conference will offer sessions on use of metrics in financial
reporting. Participants will learn how to instruct, inform and ignite
their staff, committees and boards through the use of metrics.
The conference will conclude
with the popular Ask the Experts panel. To register, contact the MSCPA at 601-856-4244 or download the registration form.