Telecom Accounting & Business Seminars

Wireless Accounting & Finance Workshop

October 9-10, 2008

Excalibur Hotel
Las Vegas, NV

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$795 2-day course

CPE Credits: 12

Who Should Attend?

Accountants, auditors, and accounting clerks employed by a wireless telecommunications carrier or providing services to the wireless telecommunications carrier market. This class will also benefit telco managers in charge of managing their company’s wireless investment(s). The purpose of the class is to learn the unique aspects of accounting for wireless carriers and key financial practices/strategies for monitoring and improving financial performance. Bring your questions and we will answer them.

What You'll Learn

Introduction

History of wireless telecommunications; types of wireless spectrum (traditional cellular, PCS, LMDS, MMDS); wireless technologies employed in the United States; next generation services and technologies. The future of wireless and what capital will be required to remain viable.

Revenue Issues

Access and airtime revenue measurement and recognition issues; roaming revenue measurement and recognition (in-collect and out-collect); roaming agreements; special emphasis on revenue assurance issues

Wireless Plant

Components of wireless plant; estimated useful lives; co-location agreements; tower zoning issues; tower sale/leaseback arrangements, including terms of tower leases

Tax Issues

Tax strategies, including discussion of asset lives for income tax purposes, treatment of handset subsidies, and other matters; recent IRS examination issues; sales tax issues; excise taxes

Accounting and Regulatory Issues

Recent GAAP pronouncements and their applicability to wireless telecommunication carriers; update on wireless company ETC filings; wireless local number portability; E-911; other regulatory matters

Arrangements with Wireless Carriers

Review traditional partnership arrangements to provide wireless telecommunications, partitioning arrangements, reseller arrangements, and other approaches to providing wireless services and management issues that may arise with each arrangement; cost allocation matters, including least cost routing issues in a partnership arrangement; switch sharing models and approaches; and other cost accounting issues

Key Performance Indicators and Valuation Issues

Discussion of what performance indicators should be measured and how they are calculated; benchmarks such as average revenue per unit (ARPU), cost to acquire a customer; and churn; merger and acquisition issues, including due diligence concerns

Instructors

Chris Stormer

Bauknight Pietras & Stormer

Mike McGovern

Bauknight Pietras & Stormer

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Telecom Seminar Contacts

Registration Information

Karen Arndt

509-777-0153

Course Content Information

Rick Betts

509-777-0187

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Course Combo Opportunities: Make the most of your training dollar and trip to Las Vegas by also registering for Telecom Networks for Non-technical Staff, Telecom 101, Intermediate Telecom Accounting or Budgeting, Forecasting and Benchmarking.