The Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance holds two Continuing Professional Education (CPE) events each year. The Accounting Society student organization organizes a CPE event every December.
During the Spring term, the department hosts a CPE event on ethics.
CPE EVENT: December 12, 2025
The Accounting Society and Epsilon Pi Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi at UA Little Rock invite you to its annual eight-hour continuing professional education event. The event will be on Friday, December 12th, 2025, hosted via Zoom Webinar. Registration through Zoom and PayPal is now open. If you do not have a PayPal account, you may register using PayPal as a “guest”.
The cost is $150. The proceeds of the event fund scholarships, club activities, service projects, and attendance at the regional and national Beta Alpha Psi conferences.
To register a group and/or pay by check contact Cynthia Taylor at [email protected].
2025 CPE Event Schedule
- 8:25 Welcome & CPE requirement instructions
- 8:30 – 9:20 Cynthia Bearden, Chief Financial Officer, Arkansas Department of Inspector General – Update from the Office of the Inspector General.
- 9:20-10:10 T.J. Lawhon, Partner at Wright Lindsey & Jennings LLP – Arkansas Tax Update.
- 10 minute break
- 10:20 – 11:10 Michael Singleton, Associate State Director of the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center – Small Business Outlook, including the impact of tariffs on small businesses.
- 11:10 – 12:00 Leonell Thompson, Manager, Legal Business Operations at Williams in Tulsa, OK. “Connecting Ethics and Leadership.”
- 30 minute lunch break
- 12:30 – 1:20 Chieh Lin, Assistant Professor of Accounting at UA Little Rock – FASB Update.
- 1:20 – 2:10 Vimal Bava, Instructor at UA Little Rock, “AI in Accounting.”
- 10 minute break
- 2:20 – 3:10 TBA
- 3:10 – 4:00 Carlos Dias, Jr., Tax Planner and Wealth Manager at DIAS Wealth, “The One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”