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Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Description
As the Public Sector Accounting (PSA) Handbook continues to evolve at a rapid pace, users of public sector accounting standards may find it difficult to keep up. This course provides a review of sections in the PSA Handbook that have recently undergone addition or will soon come into effect. Looking to the future, this seminar reviews ongoing projects and activities of the PSA Board. Finally, there is a look at emerging issues in public sector accounting and potential future projects. In order to relate the course to real life, the session will provide background information and examples to assist participants understand these changes.
This course is being offered to:
- Improve awareness and understanding of the changes to the PSA Handbook allowing participants to better position themselves to plan for the changes and to advise others.
- Provide an understanding of current and future projects to consider whether participants will be impacted and should follow these projects and provide feedback to PSAB prior to finalization if applicable.
- Walkthrough examples and exercises with the participants so the material can be used as future resource when applying the standards in practice.
- Make participants aware of emerging issues in public sector accounting and reporting, so that they can understand the impact to them, and provide feedback to PSAB on areas of interest.
Topics Include:
- Overview of recently issued or new standards:
- PS 3280 – Asset Retirement Obligations
- PS 3160 – Public Private Partnership
- PS 3400 – Revenue
- PS 3450, PS 1201 - Financial Instruments, including the use of the Statement of Re-measurement Gains and Losses and explanations
- The new conceptual framework
- PS 1202 – Financial Statement Presentation (the new standard)
- Update on current projects underway:
- Employee benefits
- Government not-for-profit strategy and current projects in progress
- Intangible Assets
- PSAB’s work plan and strategic plans
- Emerging public sector issues including cloud based computing costs, sustainability reporting, crypto-currency and accounting for natural resources.
- Summary of recent PSADG meetings since 2022
NOTE: This course description has been revised and reflects updates for 2024. If you have any questions, please contact pdevents@cpaontario.ca.
Key Takeaways
By the end of this course, participants should be able to:
- Describe the new and pending PSAS sections and how such standards relate to existing PSAS Handbook sections.
- Be aware of the current PSAB projects.
Who Will Benefit
Professionals working in or serving local governments, senior governments, crown corporations and agencies, first nations or other public sector entities or auditors of these entities.
Prerequisite(s)
- PSAS: Review of the Standards, or
- General working knowledge of existing PSA standards
How to Access the Course
This course is a live webinar. You must attend the live course to receive verifiable CPD hours. We recommend you join five minutes prior to the scheduled starting time. To get the full experience of this interactive course, use a computer that has video and microphone capabilities.
Electronic material can be accessed one week prior to the course and should be downloaded in advance.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal and all other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.
Speaker(s)
Joline Moore, CPA, CA has over 7 years of accounting experience with public sector and private companies. She is currently the Financial Policy Manager at Metrolinx, which involves researching public sector accounting standards, creating accounting policies and rolling out training. Previously, she was in the audit practice at Deloitte LLP, where she worked with clients in a variety of industries (manufacturing, technology, and public sector), and a breadth of financial reporting frameworks such as PSAS, IFRS, ASPE, ASNPO.