Key takeaways
Host: Chris Chiriatti, managing director, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Presenters: Christina Benvenuti, senior manager, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Matthew Thomas Clark, manager, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Morgan Dove, senior manager, Deloitte & Touche LLP
PJ Theisen, partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Cody Yettaw, senior manager, Deloitte & Touche LLP
1.5 Overview CPE credit | Accounting
Do you know what issues the standard-setters, regulators, and stakeholders have been focused on lately? We’ve been monitoring their projects and hot topics. We’ll discuss:
- Accounting, standard-setting, and reporting developments for the quarter
- Recent positions from regulators and standard-setters on accounting and reporting matters including the newly released SEC climate disclosure ruling
- Impacts of AI in financial reporting
Meet the host
Chris Chiriatti
Chris is a managing director in Deloitte’s National Office – Accounting and Reporting Services Group. Chris’ primary areas of expertise are revenue recognition, leasing, accounting for cloud computing arrangements and software development, business combinations, long lived assets, and CECL for commercial entities. Chris is also one of the primary authors of Deloitte’s Roadmap to Applying the New Revenue Recognition Standard and has also authored various other external publications addressing accounting for cloud computing arrangements, agile software development, CECL for commercial entities and revenue recognition. Chris is also the audit leader for Accounting and Reporting Advisory services where he oversees all accounting and reporting advisory service includes new standards implementation, accounting on-call advisory services, accounting for technology transformation, IFRS to US GAAP conversions and SEC reporting.
PJ Theisen
PJ Theisen is an Audit & Assurance Partner in Deloitte’s National Office Accounting and Reporting Services Group specializing in technical accounting matters in the areas of financial instruments, revenue recognition, and accounting for digital asset transactions under US GAAP and IFRS. Also, he serves companies in both an advisory and audit capacity that operate in the blockchain, technology, and life science industries, with a focus on accounting and financial reporting. He is also involved in monitoring standard setting by the FASB and other regulators and developing related thoughtware. He previously served as a Professional Accounting Fellow in the SEC’s Office of the Chief Accountant, consulting with SEC registrants and other offices and divisions within the SEC and liaising with standard setting bodies and other regulators both in the US and abroad. PJ received a BA in accounting and finance from the University of St. Thomas, Opus College of Business. He is a Certified Public Accountant in Washington, D.C. and Minnesota.
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