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GLO CPAs, LLP Fair Value & Derivatives Accounting Conference.


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 CPAs, LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , a large Houston-based 25 year old leading certified public accounting firm is providing more than financial services for its clients and constituents by hosting conferences and networking sessions at The Houston Club. On Tuesday, March 6th, 2007, GLO will host a conference focused on Fair Value and Derivatives Accounting.

Speaking at the event are Katherine Schipper, Ph.D. (past FASB FASB

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 member) who will discuss Fair Value Accounting and Concepts, and Angela L.J. Hwang, Ph.D. (Co-Editor of Journal of Derivatives Accounting) who will speak on Accounting for Derivatives. After the presentation, GLO will hold a discussion panel presented by Agnes Cheng, Ph.D.

The conference will cover many aspects regarding Fair Value Accounting including definitions, key attributes, measures and measurement standard - SFAS SFAS Statement of Financial Accounting Standards
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 157. Also covered in the Derivatives Accounting section of the conference: implementation, key aspects and amendments of FASB 133, SFAS 138, SFAS 133, FAS 133 and FAS 149.

Katherine Schipper, Ph.D., is a Thomas Keller Professor of Business Administration & Professor of Law at Duke University. Dr. Schipper is a former member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)

Board composed of independent members who create and interpret Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
, and an expert in financial reporting standard setting and how the capital markets use accounting information.

Angela L.J. Hwang, Ph.D., M.S.A., B.S. is Associate Professor of Accounting at Eastern Michigan University Eastern Michigan University, mainly at Ypsilanti, Mich.; coeducational; founded 1849 as a normal school, became Eastern Michigan College in 1956, gained university status in 1959. . Dr. Hwang co-edited the Journal of Derivatives Accounting and has been published in the Journal of Accounting Education, The CPA (Computer Press Association, Landing, NJ) An earlier membership organization founded in 1983 that promoted excellence in computer journalism. Its annual awards honored outstanding examples in print, broadcast and electronic media. The CPA disbanded in 2000.  Journal, Journal of Accountancy, Advances in Taxation and Advances in Management Accounting.

Agnes Cheng, Ph.D. is currently Director of Research & Technical Activities at GLO CPAs, LLP. Dr. Cheng is also a Professor of Accounting at the Bauer College of Business The Bauer College of Business is an academic college at the University of Houston and is fully accredited by the AACSB International. It offers a full-fledged B.B.A., M.B.A., MS Accountancy, MS Finance, and the city’s only Ph.D. program in business administration.  at University of Houston, and has helped the University of Houston to arrange and develop training and education programs for Asian students and executives.

About GLO CPAs, LLP - Established in 1981, GLO CPAs, LLP is one of Houston's leading certified public accounting and advisory firms. GLO CPAs has a strong global footprint and provides services including auditing, accounting, financial planning, personal and corporate tax planning and preparation, and investment services. With team members encompassing a wide variety of skills including fluency in the Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean languages, GLO CPAs, LLP helps clients to manage and optimize growth while maintaining the highest quality control standards in the accounting industry.
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