Live Classroom Seminars

This course provides an introduction to the key components that make for a dynamic and memorable presentation--charisma, your unique selling proposition, powerful storytelling, and superior presentation skills -- and in the process, transforms you into a more capable, confident, and competent presenter in front of any audience.  Our guest speaker, Stanley K. Ridgley, PhD, IMBA, brings to bear the most powerful instructional techniques from one of America's great business schools and combines them with the lessons of military leadership and high strategy learned on the front lines of the Cold War as a Military Intelligence Officer.  Dr. Ridgley helps accounting and legal professionals tap unused potential, realize strengths, recognize talents, and imbue themselves with energy and confidence.

* Areas of study are based on NASBA approved fields of study.  These areas may differ in your state.

This could easily be one of the most valuable continuing education events of your career!  We'll provide you with a comprehensive review of all major financial calculations, including but not limited to:   time value of money concepts, mortgage payments, amortization schedules, college planning calculations, retirement planning calculations, Monte Carlo Simulation, bond valuation, return analysis, net present value (NPV), and internal rate of return (IRR).  With a mastery of this material, you can help your clients enhance project or portfolio returns, maximize cash flow, minimize interest payments, and avoid excessive fees.

Financial calculators will be provided during the course.  Calculator key strokes will be highlighted through the use of Texas Instrument's proprietary Emulator technology to ensure effective communication of major concepts.

* Areas of study are based on NASBA approved fields of study.  These areas may differ in your state.

The Legal Issues and Financial Opportunities Associated with Purchasing Song Catalogues

This course will provide an overview of copyright law as it relates to song catalogues, an analysis of the various income streams associated with music publishing, a discussion as to why song catalogue acquisitions provide consistent income during turbulent economic times, a system for calculating catalogue purchase prices, and a breakdown of the various agreements used to close acquisition deals.

Christopher J. Cabott is a Philadelphia-based attorney concentrating in Entertainment, Sports, and Media Law.  He is a certified National Football League Player Agent and an Adjunct Professor at York College where he teaches Copyright & Music Publishing Law and Temple University where he teaches Sports & Entertainment Law.

* Areas of study are based on NASBA approved fields of study.  These areas may differ in your state.

On July 21st of this year, President Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.  The 2,300 page Act was created in response to the greatest financial crisis in America since the Great Depression.

This seminar will provide an explanation of what may be gleaned from the Act for purposes of advising clients, and will identify the unanswered issues resulting from this landmark law.

Mr. Chiacchio is an attorney whose practice is located in Center City Philadelphia.  Following law school, Mr. Chiacchio served as a law clerk to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and went on to spend a number of years at one of the nation's largest law firms, based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, before opening his own law firm.  Mr. Chiacchio's practice includes, among other substantive areas of the law, representing financial institutions and their employees in customer disputes. These representations take place in state and federal courts as well as arbitration hearings  held by FINRA.  Mr. Chiacchio also handles formal inquiries made by the Securities and Exchange Commission and FINRA as well as banking related disputes.  Mr. Chiacchio also advises, and when necessary represents in litigation, hedge fund managers and other private money managers.

* Areas of study are based on NASBA approved fields of study.  These areas may differ in your state.

The current economic crisis has forced regulators and legislators to reexamine accounting and auditing guidelines and procedures.  Our guest speakers will discuss some of the recent changes that will impact accountants, auditors, and legal professionals in the near future.  In this course, we will discuss the mortgage default and foreclosure picture and how recently enacted Federal and State legislation and Regulatory changes will impact accounting and auditing procedures.  We will also review the principles behind the direct method of reporting cash flows from operating activities, and examine the convergence of the IASB and FASB on changes to reporting cash flow.    Finally, we will review the mathematics of the audit risk model so that participants can more accurately assess inherent business risks.

John S. Pavlovsky, Jr. has an accounting and tax practice servicing individuals and small businesses with accounting advice, business consulting, tax return preparation and tax planning.  John has worked for the Department of Banking and Insurance as a Field Manager responsible for supervision of all examinations of licensees reporting to the Office of Consumer Finance, spent five years as a Vice President and Commercial Lender with First Washington State Bank, served for seven years as Chief Financial Officer for Fiserv Solutions, Inc., and spent fourteen years in the audit group of KPMG specializing in Financial Institutions.  John was responsible for supervising the audits of approximately 40-50 small to large size clients, most of which were publicly traded companies.  John also has been an adjunct professor at Rider University for twenty-five years teaching Intermediate and Advanced Accounting classes.  Charles R. Wiedman, CPA has been a self-employed accountant and tax practitioner since 1983.  Charles spent fifteen years as a part-time technical report writer for a regional CPA firm.  For the past ten years, he has been active as a peer reviewer, assisting firms with developing quality control systems for compliance with professional accounting, auditing, and attestation standards. 

* Areas of study are based on NASBA approved fields of study.  These areas may differ in your state.