Accounting Best Practices with Steve Bragg

Setting up a trading plan under Rule 10b5-1

How to sell restricted stock using Rule 144

Registering stock with Forms S-1, S-3, and S-8; plus shelf registrations

How to decide which products should be cancelled

A review of FASB Statement 165, Subsequent Events

How to use the Regulation A exemption to raise funds in smaller amounts

How to use the Regulation D exemption to raise funds from accredited investors

Type A, B, and C reorganizations, triangular mergers, and reverse triangular mergers

A discussion of the CFO's primary responsibilities, and what not to do.

Setting up a credit policy and administering it

Why a term sheet is useful, and its typical contents

The process for going private, and some pitfalls

How the accounting department can work from home

Various techniques for handling accounts payable matching

Ways to improve the efficiency of your accounts payable operation

Key items to look for in a due diligence review

How to deal with the outside analyst

Describes the controls that can be used during the creation of financial statements

How to issue financial reports to the SEC as fast as possible

Possible controls to install for your budgeting system

How to compile a value for a target acquisition

How to deal with short sellers

Some techniques for creating and issuing better invoices

How to streamline your office

How to improve the accuracy and reliability of your budget model

How to use (and not use) breakeven analysis and the margin of safety

The mechanics of how to list on a major national stock exchange

Greg Prow, CEO of Planitax, discusses tax technology

How to construct a value stream mapping chart, and how it can be used to improve a process

How to locate and dispose of obsolete inventory

How to implement responsibility accounting within your organization

How business combinations are affected by the new SFAS 141R accounting standard

When to issue guidance, and what information to reveal

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has overhauled the coding structure for GAAP

Denise Curd discusses business valuation and SFAS 141R

How to pursue recoveries from suppliers

Dick Crandall explains lean accounting, and where it can be used

How to use safe harbor clauses when making forward-looking statements

How target costing can improve your product margins

How to create a highly accurate inventory record keeping system

Steve discusses how to allocate work to maximize collections.

Steve discusses how to select the best payroll cycle.

Steve discusses a variety of accounting best practices implementation issues, and how to avoid them.

Steve interviews Rich Lanza about using the internal audit staff for profit recovery purposes.

 Steve interviews Carolyn Newman, president of Audimation Services, Inc., about IDEA data analysis software.

Steve discusses accounting standards convergence with international accounting standards expert Barry Epstein.

Steve interviews Ralph Nach about FASB Statements 157 and 159, which cover fair value measurements and the fair value option.

Steve interviews Rich Lanza about the mechanics of the profit recovery process.

Steve discusses the types of controls to use for throughput accounting.

Steve discusses the implications of using throughput concepts on a series of financial analysis scenarios.

Steve describes how throughput accounting concepts alter the capital budgeting process.

Steve discusses how to manage a bottleneck operation in order to increase the level of throughput achieved.

Steve discusses the drum-buffer-rope aspects of constraint management, as well as the sprint capacity and throughput concepts.

Steve discusses how to create PDF versions of customer invoices, and how this can reduce collection problems.

Steve discusses how to use a check scanner to send electronic check payments to the bank.

Steve discusses time clocks that incorporate fingerprint scanners and hand shape readers, and in what situations they are most useful.

Steve interviews Mark Nickson, President of Telliris, about timekeeping by telephone.

Steve interviews Joshua Burnett, CEO of 9ci, Inc., about automatic cash application systems.

Steve interviews Ms. Mona Clayton, Partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, about forensic accounting investigations, and also discusses logistics measurements.

Steve interviews Ms. Rossana Salaris, Senior VP of The Clearinghouse Payments Company, about their Universal Payment Identification Code, and also discusses sales measurements.

Steve interviews Rich Lanza about profit leaks and recovery auditing, and also discusses metrics for the accounting department.

Steve interviews Harry Cendrowski, co-author of The Fraud Deterrence Handbook and president of Cendrowski Selecky PC, about fraud deterrence.

Ralph Nach interviews Steve Bragg about acquiring a public shell company.

Mark Polino (from Transit Television Network) discusses accounting run charts, and Steve covers return on investment measurements.

Steve discusses operating performance measurements.

Steve interviews Ralph Nach regarding upcoming accounting standards in 2007, and discusses asset utilization measurements.

Steve interviews Rich Lanza regarding how to locate Excel spreadsheet errors, and discusses cash flow measurements.

Steve interviews Ralph Nach regarding accounting in the year 2006, and discusses liquidity measurements.

Steve interviews Ralph Nach regarding the risk assessment suite (part 2) and discusses inventory measurements.

Steve interviews Ralph Nach regarding the risk assessment suite and discusses payroll measurements.

Steve discusses how to improve the speed of the close by compressing the billing process.

Steve discusses payroll controls for both manual and computerized systems.

Steve discusses accounts payable controls for both manual and computerized systems.

Steve discusses controls for collections and cash receipts.

Steve discusses billing controls for both manual and computerized systems.

Steve discusses controls for shipping.

Steve discusses controls for production.

Steve discusses controls for inventory.

Steve discusses controls for receiving.

Steve discusses controls for expense reports.

Steve discusses controls for purchase orders.

Steve discusses controls for procurement cards.

Steve discusses controls for the credit department.

Steve discusses controls for a computerized order entry system.

Steve discusses controls for a manual order entry system.