Updating the Professional Accountant
45th Annual Seminar, December 8-12, 2025, and Tuesday, December 16
Growing professionally.
Continuing Professional Education (CPE) is required for CPAs to maintain their active CPA license. Lipscomb University’s accredited College of Business presents its annual accounting and auditing CPE conference—Updating the Professional Accountant—designed to keep you up to date and informed with the latest industry regulations, developments and updates. From fraud issues and accounting updates to tax planning and technology updates, you’ll hear first-hand from some of the area’s most noted business leaders. You can earn up to 48 hours of CPE credit by attending all six days, or as few as 4 hours by attending one morning or one afternoon session.
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Format of Program:
The program is arranged as an online webinar, consisting of two, 2-hour presentations with a 4-hour morning session and a 4-hour afternoon session. You may register for a minimum of 4 hours or the full 48 hours. CPE hours are offered in the following categories: Accounting-Govt 2 hours, Auditing 16 hours, Accounting 8 hours, Taxes 8 hours, Ethics 2 hours, Business Law 2 hours, Specialized Knowledge 6 hours, and Information Technology 4 hours. All CPE hours qualify as technical fields of study. The webinar is NASBA-approved under the format "Group Internet Based."
CPE is required of all active licensees: 80 hours each two-year period with a minimum of 20 hours in each year.
Forty (40) hours (of the 80) must be completed in technical fields of study: Accounting, Accounting-Govt, Auditing, Auditing-Govt, Business Law, Economics, Finance, Information Technology, Management Services, Regulatory Ethics, Specialized Knowledge, Statistics, or Taxes. All hours in the Lipscomb program qualify as technical fields of study.
If you engage in the attest function (including compilations), you must complete at least 20 (of the 40) technical hours in areas of accounting and auditing.
If you are engaged as an expert witness in the areas of accounting, attest, management advisory services, or tax, you should obtain at least 20 hours (of the 80) in the subject area(s) relating to such testimony.
Licensees who renew in 2025 must complete two hours of state-specific ethics. This conference offers two hours of state-specific ethics.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2025
Auditing and Accounting
- 8:20 - GOVERNMENTAL AUDIT/ACCOUNTING UPDATE
Jack McKee, Brian Liffick
Cherry Bekaert
(Accounting - Govt 1 hour, Auditing - Govt 1 hour Accounting) - 10:20 - RISKY BUSINESS: MANAGING THIRD-PARTY RISK AND LEVERAGING SOC REPORTS
Scott Nalley, KraftCPAs
Erica Hightower, Member, KraftCPAs
Alex Herrin, Manager, KraftCPAs
(Auditing) - 12:40 - MUNICIPAL AUDITING
Jim Arnette, Moderator
Division of Local Government Audit, Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury
(Auditing) - 2:40 - GOVERNMENT FRAUD INVESTIGATIONS
Jeff Puckett, Director
Division of Investigations, Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury
(Auditing}
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2025
BUSINESS LAW, ACCOUNTING, SPEC. KNOWLEDGE, AUDITING
- 8:20 - Business Law for Accountants
Rowan Leathers, Butler Snow - Moderator
(Business Law) - 10:20 - CONTROLLERSHIP UPDATE
Clay Whitaker, Tivity Health
David Wilson, PFG, Performance Food Group Co
(Accounting) - 12:40 - ECONOMIC FORECAST
Tracy Bell, First Horizon Bank
(Specialized Knowledge) - 2:40 - TOP TEN AUDITING ISSUES
Ryan Myers, APRIO
(Auditing)
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2025
Accounting and Auditing
- 8:20 - CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS: ACCOUNTING & AUDITING
Mike Brand, BMSS, LLC
(Accounting) - 10:20 - CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS: ACCOUNTING & AUDITING
Mike Brand, BMSS, LLC
(Auditing) - 12:40 - FORENSIC AUDITING
Josh Hedrick, KraftCPAs
Matt Barrnes, KraftCPAs
(Auditing) - 2:40 - TSCPA / AICPA UPDATE
Kara Fitzgerald, CEO, TSCPA
(Accounting)
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2025
Ethics, Auditing, and Information Technology
- 8:20 - ETHICS – STATE SPECIFIC
Perry Moore, Professor
Lipscomb University College of Business
(Ethics - State Specific) - 10:20 - CFO ROUNDTABLE: PERSPECTIVES & PRIORITIES
Andy Flatt, NHC CIO
(Accounting) - 12:40 - UPDATE ON STANDARDS FOR REVIEWS, COMPILATIONS, AND PREPARATION ENGAGEMENTS (SSARS UPDATE)
Michael Glynn, Associate Director, Audit and Attest Standards, AICPA
(Auditing) - 2:40 - TECHNOLOGY UPDATE
Tim Agee, CISA, CGEIT, QSA
Consultant
(Information Technology)
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2025
Taxes
- 8:20 - ESTATE PLANNING / TENNESSEE TAXES
Estate: Mike Sontag, Bryan Jepson, Bass Berry
Tennessee: Stephen Jasper, Robert Guth, Bass Berry - 10:20 - CORPORATE TAX PLANNING
Brian Masterson, Frost Brown Todd - 12:40 - INDIVIDUAL TAX UPDATE
John Connors, Professional Tax Speaker
Tax Educator's Network - 2:40 - BUSINESS / CORPORATE TAX UPDATE
John Connors, Professional Tax Speaker
Tax Educator's Network
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2024
Information Technology, Auditing and Specialized Knowledge
- 8:20 - POWER EXCEL UPDATE
Jeff Mankin, Finally Learn
Julio Rivas, Lipscomb University
(Information Technology) - 10:20 - CYBERSECURITY UPDATE
Jacob Arthur
Lipscomb University and Formos Consulting
(Auditing) - 12:40 - DIGITAL ASSETS UPDATE
Sean Hagan, Moderator
(Specialized Knowledge) - 2:40 - CHANGING LANDSCAPE: HIRING FINANCE PROFESSIONALS
Susan Galbreath, Professor, Lipscomb University - Moderator
Suzanne Sager, Recruiting, Lipscomb
Mark Jobe, Professor, Lipscomb
Aubrey Scarletti, MTSU
(Specialized Knowledge)
Lipscomb University is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE sponsors here.