Non-Profit Financial Professional Group Seminar Series, 2007-08
Asher & Company will offer the following on-site courses for CPE credit: 

Thursday, November 15, 2007
Risk Assessment Standards: Changing the Audit Process for Auditor and Auditee

Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Annual Tax Update

Thursday, March 20, 2008
Best Practices for Your Organization

Thursday, May 1, 2008
Preparing for Your Audit

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Non-Profit Financial Professional Group Seminar Series, 2006-07
Asher & Company will offer the following on-site courses for CPE credit: 

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Past Seminars 2005-06

Friday, November 18, 2005
NPO Audit Committees and Other Lessons from Sarbanes-Oxley
Elizabeth F. Pilacik, CPA
Senior Manager and NPO Services Chair, Asher & Company, Ltd.

Learn best practices for your audit committee and receive a detailed Audit Committee Guide as a reference. We’ll also discuss other policies adopted by NPOs such as document retention and destruction, and whistle-blower policies.

Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Executive Compensation- When, What & Why
Bernadette M. Chiocco, CPA 
Director, Asher & Company, Ltd. 
Robin D. Fritz, CPA
Manager, Asher & Company, Ltd.

The IRS is currently focusing on executive compensation and plans to continue to do so even more in the future. Join us for a discussion of executive compensation and the importance of recognition and documentation.

Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Accounting for "Advanced" Contributions
Elizabeth F. Pilacik, CPA
Senior Manager and NPO Services Chair, Asher & Company, Ltd.

You’ve received a letter indicating that your organization will receive income from a trust or will share income with other NPOs from another gift vehicle. How do you account for this contribution? Join us as we discuss recognition and measurement principles for these types of "advanced" contributions, commonly know as split-interest agreements. We’ll review the most common kinds of agreements, including charitable lead trusts, perpetual trusts held by a third parties, charitable remainder trusts, charitable gift annuities, and pooled (life) income funds.

Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Preparing for Your Audit
Megan McBride, CPA
Senior Accountant, Asher & Company, Ltd.

Preparing for the year-end audit can be disruptive and stressful to you and your staff, but it doesn’t need to be that way. Join us as we discuss the "dos" and "don’ts" of preparing for your audit, and provide tips on how you can work with the auditor to make the audit process go smoothly. Whether you are an experienced auditee or new to the audit process, we’re sure that you will be able to benefit from this session.

Past Seminars 2004-05

Not-for-Profit Financial Professional Group Seminar Series, 2004-05
Asher & Company will offer the following on-site courses for CPE credit: Financial Statement Tune-up (November 22, 2004); Improving Your 990 (January 12, 2005); Contribution Basics (March 16, 2005); and Preparing for Your Audit (May 18, 2005). 

Basic Accounting and Bookkeeping Clinic, April 22, 2004   
Randee Mellon, Small Business Specialist, and Elizabeth Pilacek, CPA and Manager, at Asher & Company, Ltd., will lead this workshop, sponsored and hosted by United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania ’s Community Impact Training Institute, located at 7 Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia . Attendees will learn how to: maintain effective control over their non-profit organization’s finances, create effective financial records and reports, and how important financial accuracy to building a stronger organization.  For more information or to register, call 215-665-2660 .

Federal Taxes on Income for Temple Students, Summer 2004   
Susanne Spinell Shuster, CPA, MST, Manager of the Small and Emerging Business Group, will teach the course "Federal Taxes on Income," an introduction to the concepts and logic underlying federal income tax law, to undergraduate students (Summer 1 Session) and to MBA students (Summer 2 Session) at Temple University, Center City Campus.

QuickBooks Not-For-Profits 101 -- The Basics, July 13, 2004   
Randee Mellon, Certified Pro Advisor and Small Business Specialist for Asher & Company, Ltd., will lead this United Way -sponsored workshop designed for agency staff with financial tracking and reporting responsibilities. Participants will learn how to set up and use QuickBooks software to streamline non-profit accounting systems, create budgets, manage payroll, pay bills and track financial reports. For information or to register, call 215-665-2660 .

QuickBooks Not-For-Profits 102 -- The Specifics, July 13, 2004   
Randee Mellon, Certified Pro Advisor for Asher & Company, Ltd. will help participants build on their QuickBooks skills. Some topics covered at this United-Way sponsored workshop include: QuickBooks payroll, global techniques, restricted grants, tracking pledges and membership dues, and capital campaigns.  For information or to register, call 215-665-2660 .

Intermediate Accounting and Bookkeeping Clinic, July 22, 2004   
In this follow-up class to “Basic Accounting and Bookkeeping Clinic,” Randee Mellon and Elizabeth Pilacek of Asher & Company, Ltd. will lead attendees through the next steps of the accounting methods and systems that will help them achieve fiscal responsibility for their organization. The workshop is sponsored and hosted by United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania ’s Community Impact Training Institute, located at 7 Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia . For more information or to register, call 215-665-2660 .

The Valuation of Firms for Temple MBA Students, Fall 2004  
Temple MBA students can take "The Valuation of Firms" during the Fall semester at Temple University, Center City Campus. The course, taught by Susanne Spinell Shuster, CPA, MST, will introduce students to managing and measuring the value of firms. It will include a basic valuation exercise to familiarize students with the fundamentals of the Discounted Cash Flow valuation model.

Financial Statement Analysis for Temple MBA Students, Fall 2004
The course, "Financial Statement Analysis" will be offered for the Fall semester to MBA students at Temple University, Center City Campus.  The course, taught by Asher & Company, Ltd.'s Susanne Spinell Shuster, CPA, MST, is designed to develop understanding of the usefulness and limitations of historical financial statement information and to implement this information in assessing a company's performance and economic health. It also will develop an understanding of the use of cash flow and earnings information in prospective analysis, forecasting and valuation.

Past 2004 Seminars 

Selected Tax Topics for Individuals, February 23, 2004 
Asher & Company, Ltd.’s Susanne Spinell Shuster, CPA, MST, Manager of the Small and Emerging Business Group, addressed this topic at the Women’s Opportunities Resource Center in Philadelphia.  

Financial Facts for New Physicians, February 19, 2004 
Susanne Spinell Shuster, CPA, MST, Manager of the Small and Emerging Business Group, presented  tax and accounting issues for healthcare professionals before and after they establish a private practice. The seminar was held at Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia.                   

Tax Update Seminar, January 28, 2004  
Rachel Winslow of Asher & Company, Ltd. presented a 4300 Regulations and Tax Update seminar at the Hilton Valley Forge in King of  Prussia.            

Past 2003 Seminars 

Women's Business Development Seminar, October 29, 2003
Susanne Spinell Shuster, CPA, MST, Manager of the Small and Emerging Business Group at Asher & Company, Ltd., was a presenter at the Women's Business Development Center's Fall 2003 FastTrac Planning class on Wednesday, October 29. The topic of Susanne's presentation was Financial Statements: A Business Tool for the Present and Future.  It covered financial statements as management tools and ratio analysis.

Nonprofit Institute Workshop, June 26, 2003
The Pennsylvania Bar Institute held the 2003 Nonprofit Institute on Thursday, June 26 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.  Asher & Company, Ltd.'s Rachel Winslow co-presented the When the FASB Meets State Law-Do Your Financial Statements Mean What They Say? workshop with William C. Bullitt of Drinker, Biddle & Reath.