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RSVP Drees Pavilion Agenda Ray G. Stephens Bio

Accounting Standards Update Seminar with Ray G. Stephens, CPA, CMA, DBA 8.0 CPE Credits Monday, November 5, 2007 Drees Pavilion Covington, KY Seminar 8am-4:30pm Breakfast begins at 7:30am J.D. Cloud clients attend free of charge! Cost is $110 for CPA Associates Members Plus lodging and out of pocket expenses

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AGENDA

• Share-based compensation and other share-based payments SFAS 123R
• Fair value accounting and disclosures -- SFAS 157 and SFAS 159
• Accounting for transfers of financial instruments -- the issues and changes to SFAS 140
• Accounting for income taxes -- issues in SFAS 109 and staff positions and related EITFs and FIN 48
• Accounting for business combinations and consolidations -- current issues with SFAS 141 and 142, overviw of recently released SFAS 141R and the update on accounting for non-controllong interest standard

Short Items:

• Accounting for asset retirement obligations -- SFAS 143, FIN 47
• Accounting for guarantees -- FIN 45
• Variable interest entities -- FIN 46R
• SSARS 15 and OCBOA

Ray G. Stephens

Ray G. Stephens, D.B.A., C.P.A., C.M.A., is Professor of Accountancy at Ohio University. His current teaching and research interests are in corporate financial reporting and attest services. Professor Stephens earned his doctorate from the Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University (D.B.A.). He was James E. Daley Professor and Director of the School of Accountancy from 1998 to 2007. He was KPMG Peat Marwick Professor of Accounting at Kent State University for eight years, a faculty member at The Ohio State University for thirteen years, and has also held instructional positions at Harvard University, East Carolina University, Boston University, and the American College in Paris (France). Professor Stephens was the 1995 Ohio Outstanding Accounting Educator, was the recipient of the Ohio Society of CPA’s Gold Medal in 2004 and the 2004 National Beta Alpha Psi Business Information Professional in Education Award, and is currently serving a term on the Accountancy Board of Ohio (2001-2008; chair 2005-2006). He is serving a member of NASBA’s Professional Response Committee and its International Task Force. Professor Stephens has several years of banking experience, has been involved in consulting projects with public companies and has served extensively as a consultant and expert witness in accounting and auditing. He is a frequent instructor for executive and continuing education programs and was awarded an AICPA Outstanding CPE Instructor in 1991 and the Ohio Society of CPA's Outstanding Discussion Leader in 1995. Dr. Stephens serves as a director of Virginia Electronic & Lighting Corporation and Wright Tool Company and as a trustee for Appalachian Visiting Nurse Association, Inc. He is a former Academic Accounting Fellow at the Securities & Exchange Commission, a former Senior Academic Fellow in the Office of the Auditor of the State of Ohio, and a former Faculty Resident with Arthur Andersen & Co., and currently serves as the North American Accounting and Auditing Consultant for CPA Associates International, Inc. Professor Stephens has authored numerous books and articles.