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NEW YORK, Oct. 31, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Global innovation expert and award-winning author Lisa Bodell will serve as a keynote speaker at KPMG LLP's 27th Annual Accounting and Financial Reporting Symposium, one of the financial reporting industry's most popular educational programs. The audit, tax and advisory firm's annual Symposium focuses on the existing and emerging issues that financial executives need to know about.

This year's Symposium, offering 16 CPE credits, will occur Nov. 30 - Dec. 1 in Las Vegas.

"Lisa Bodell will provide Symposium participants valuable techniques to help businesses embrace change and become world-class innovators," said John Ebner, KPMG's National Managing Partner – Audit.

Additional speakers throughout the two-day event will focus on implementation of the new revenue recognition, leases, and financial instruments standards; cyber security; data and analytics; IFRS; business combinations; and internal controls. Discounts are available for KPMG alumni, and for groups of three or more. Visit KPMG Executive Education's Symposium website to learn more about the content and to register to attend. Watch a video about the Symposium at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYwHsCrLh2s&feature=youtu.be.

About Lisa Bodell
Lisa Bodell is a bestselling author and the Founder and CEO of futurethink. As a globally recognized expert on innovation foresight, simplification, and change management, she has helped thousands of senior leaders ignite innovation at Google, Pfizer, Citigroup, Lockheed Martin, and more. Lisa's first book, Kill the Company, won the Axiom Best Business Book Award and was voted Best Business Book by USA Book News and Booz & Co.  Her latest book, Why Simple Wins, provides tools and takeaways on how organizations and individuals can eradicate complexity and allow Simplicity to be their new operating system, and North Star toward an innovative workplace culture.

Lisa has contributed her expertise to a wide variety of media including Fast Company, WIRED, The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek and she is a frequent contributor to strategy & business for Forbes and the Harvard Business Review. Lisa also enjoys shaping big picture issues on the global stage. She is a Global Agenda Council member of the World Economic Forum; an adviser on the boards of the Association of Professional Futurists; and sits on the Board of the NSA. To learn more about Lisa, go to www.futurethink.com

About KPMG Executive Education
From basic and advanced technical accounting courses and seminars for CPE Credit to in-depth conferences, KPMG Executive Education provides a range of effective continuing education learning experiences for corporate executives and their staffs in the accounting, finance and business management professions. To learn more, and find registration information for the Annual Accounting and Financial Reporting Symposium, go to www.execed.kpmg.com.

About KPMG LLP

KPMG LLP, the audit, tax and advisory firm (www.kpmg.com/us), is the independent U.S. member firm of KPMG International Cooperative ("KPMG International"). KPMG International's independent member firms have 189,000 professionals, including more than 9,000 partners, in 152 countries.

SOURCE KPMG LLP